Dear Mr Jones 

I refer to your official information request below asking for the
following information:
 

1. How many homes did the Crown purchase between 1 July 2024 and 30 June
2025 as a result of KiwiBuild underwrites being used by developers?
2. What was the cost to the Crown of purchasing those homes?
3. How many homes of those homes were on-sold before the transfer of
responsibility to HUD?
4. What was the cost to the Crown in owning those homes (I refer to
ongoing costs once the homes had been purchased)?
5. Noting that Bayleys were undertaking a marketing campaign to sell those
homes, how many were sold through that campaign?
6. I request all advice from Bayleys received by Kainga Ora in relation to
the marketing campaign to sell the homes.
7. I request a summary of any offers that were received for the sale of
those homes - noting I do not require the bidders to be identified.
8. How many FTE staff were employed by Kainga Ora working with specific
responsibility on the KiwiBuild programme up until 30 June 2025 and how
many of those staff were made redundant in the recent restructure?
9. What was the cost of any redundancy paid to those staff, if any, as
outlined in 8. above?
 
We have transferred questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of your request to the
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), because the information
is more closely connected with the functions of this agency. In these
circumstances, we are required by section 14 of the OIA to transfer your
request.

You will hear further from HUD concerning these parts of your request.

Kind regards

Kāinga Ora
 



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