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When Rebecca and Matt Saunders found their first home nine years ago, they couldn’t believe their luck. They’d been searching for months for a home they could call their own and had settled on Auckland’s Te Atatū Peninsula as an area where they wanted to live. For them, the peninsula had the small-town vibe they were used to when growing up in rural New Zealand, but it was just a short commute to the city.
“Te Atatū really resonated with us because it’s got that real community feel, schools are within walking distance, and the local shops have everything you need so you don’t need to leave the suburb if you don’t want to. It’s a destination place, not a throughway for people trying to get to other suburbs, but it’s also close enough to Auckland city, where Matt and I have always worked,” explains Rebecca.
Meet & greet
Matt (brand and creative consultant and co-founder of RAAD) and Rebecca Saunders (marketing contractor and co-founder of RAAD), Zoe, seven, and Issy, three.
Finding their dream home in their preferred suburb, however, wasn’t quite so simple. At the time, most houses on the market were do-ups and
