BUILDING A FUTURE
Mangawhai is a boom town an hour-and-a-half’s drive north of Auckland, which has experienced huge value growth in the past few years. But when Ross Fickling and his family were looking for a piece of land on which to build their dream bach three years ago, they were lucky enough to just beat the price surge.
“We were looking for a place that had everything our current home didn’t,” says Fickling, an experienced builder who heads a firm called RGF Construction. They wanted the land to be flat and they wanted a safe road where kids could ride their bikes.
