Moving Houses

Leonie bought a spectacular 110-year-old villa online while Brendon was watching television one night, and now the newlyweds have a 240 square metre challenge on their hands.

Jeff and Robin went shopping for a second hand shed to put next to their tiny house and instead fell in love with a dilapidated 100-year-old homestead.

Ray and Nicky have decided to relocate a sprawling ranch house, but it’s a move of epic proportions. Their house will be cut in two and trucked along a dirt track up to the summit.

Trish and Colin bought an abandoned railway carriage with the idea of creating some quaint guest accommodation on their Hastings property.

Graham and Monique have moved house every 18 months for the past 18 years. Now Graham’s retired, Monique says it’s time to find a home and settle down.

A Scottish couple has found the section of their dreams on a remote hilltop at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island - but the house is on a relocation yard 720 kilometres away.

Marli and David want to retire to Waiheke Island, but getting the house to the island means putting it on a truck and then the truck on a barge and embarking on a harbour crossing.

Jacob and Teresa are relocating two brand new pre-built houses from Auckland to their property among the vineyards, just out of Martinborough.

Brett and Hollis want to save a 100-year-old church from demolition and move it to their picturesque property, beneath Queenstown’s famous Coronet Peak ski field.