Raise the roof

Hilary and Jasper Boer hadn’t planned on a move to the small coastal town of Raglan when they bought their home there five years ago. The purchase was meant to be an investment, a way to get a foot on the property ladder while they lived and worked in Auckland.

“We both had full-time jobs and thought it would be a good time to buy, but prices in Auckland were already too high for anything decent,” says Jasper.

So the Boers decided to look further afield, in places they’d visited before and loved. Jasper, who moved to New Zealand from the Netherlands six years ago, had been to Raglan before and was drawn to its artistic heart, while Hilary