A concept, promoted within New Zealand by Leisurebuilt featuring committed, quality leisure or residential opportunities at an affordable cost.

‘Heritage’ is an emotive or evocative term denoting quality and old world integrity. We believe it to be an eminently suitable name to describe both the service and expectation that users increasingly associate with modern standards of leisure or living. Times have changed and public expectation with them.

The Lifestyle Parks concept falls within two broad categories - Residential and Leisure. The time will come when the Residential component will be really significant in New Zealand, but this will be much more specific to small communities specifically developed for this purpose. We are currently working through the process for a number of these, but we have a lot of new ground to break in. They will however be the real answer to affordable homes and residences for a wide community group. An answer that we simply do not have at present and with the ever growing maturity of the baby boomers, this is going to be a problem area.

The Leisure component is essentially the response to demand for increased public expectations in respect of quality of leisure time and the satisfaction of the very means that can provide this outcome. This can be reflected in many Holiday Parks and presently we are working very actively with a number of quality parks who have each striven very hard to further improve and expand facilities to cater for the Lifestyle concept that we promote. They are to be congratulated and we are sure this will go on to prove a win-win situation for all.

We believe it is every New Zealand family’s right to have their own holiday unit (Bach if you like) either at the beach, the snow, the bush or where ever they like to retreat from the rat race. Obviously this dream has been shattered over recent years with the ever escalating cost of land at holiday locations. The Lifestyle option will not be for everyone but will certainly provide an affordable quality alternative for many, and it is this sector that we address.

Our concept involves many holiday parks of New Zealand who are denied of income because their income seasons are becoming shorter and more staggered as life’s demands become so pressing that getting away for a week or two at a time for most families is nearly impossible.

Holiday Parks have been sold off and subdivided as the one off value of the land has far outweighed the income that the traditional holiday park had been able to derive, hence our concept where the holiday park provides a term licence to occupy a site property along with the purchase of a quality Leisurebuilt unit in order to provide an extremely affordable low maintenance holiday destination for the average family.

The annual fee covers site maintenance, security and your usage so you arrive ready to holiday with no lawns, hedges or gardens to tend to.

To add to the value of the concept, capital appreciation is likely when selling the unit as if one was selling property. Being able to sell the unit and your licence for market rates at any time within the licence period and just like in a new subdivision, when new sites are no longer available, the value of the units will increase.

This is an overview of the concept, however, there are many more benefits than can be mentioned in a few paragraphs. More information on Heritage Lifestyle Parks are outlined in our brochures. For a copy of our Lifestyle Residential or Lifestyle Leisure brochure, please send us your name and address (postal or email) and we'll mail one to you promptly.

Alternatively, you can also read the following articles:
"Heritage Lifestyle Park concept puts more holiday quality into time-out"; and
"Leisurebuilt Limited"
both published at www.goseenz.co.nz.