Housing Real Estate

The Hawke’s Bay offers a diverse range of housing and real estate opportunities to satisfy just about anyone’s lifestyle and price bracket.  Whether you want to live by the coast, in a small city or out on a vineyard or lifestyle block, the choice is yours.

Housing options within the main urban areas consist of a mix between inner city living and suburban dwellings, which offer a range of choices between apartments or family homes by the sea or in tree-lined streets.  In fact, green areas are held in very high regard by Hawke’s Bay residents, so a community park or garden is never very far away from a residential area.

The statistics section of this website contains information on house prices in Hawke’s Bay compared to the rest of New Zealand.

The major urban areas in Hawke’s Bay consist of the twin cities:

• Napier
• Hastings

Secondary urban areas and smaller centres consist of:

• Wairoa
• Waipukurau
  Waipawa
• Havelock North
• Flaxmere

Rural and coastal communities include areas such as:

• Clive
• Haumoana and Te Awanga
• Waimarama
• Sherenden/Puketapu
• Maraekakaho