‘Homestar’ comes to Paremoremo

Sustainable Paremoremo Community Meeting  Have you completed your online Homestar™  assessment? How well does your home perform? Would you like to know more about improving the value, efficiency and environmental performance of your home? Homestar™ helps you improve the performance of your home – making it better.  Better to live in, better for the planet and [...]

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Home Insurance: Some Good Tips

Our neighbours bought their new home a couple of months ago and have not been able to move into it yet due to unforeseen circumstances.  The home has been empty for some time. Of course to comply with bank regulations and to have peace of mind, they need to insure the home.  Because nobody is [...]

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Paremoremo Reputation Changing

Most people throughout New Zealand are familiar with the word Paremoremo.  It is frequently mentioned in the media for the events relating to Auckland Prison, located in Paremoremo.   Perception of the area is rapidly changing as word gets out about the friendly, dynamic and well connected community of Paremoremo. What many people have not [...]

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Paremoremo … the hunt is on.

The people and the place of Paremoremo are fascinating topics and it’s not the inmates of Auckland Prison (located in Paremoremo), we are talking about!.  There’s so much more to Paremoremo than the prison. A magazine is currently being produced which focuses on the Paremoremo Community and our sustainable journey which will be released later [...]

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Paremoremo – Have an Eye for a good Buy?

Sold:  $490,000 This is most certainly one. 5 acres of north facing land in Elmore Rd, so close to Albany. The owner is extremely keen to sell and has dropped the price to get some action. This land deserves a top quality home on it as the adjoining homes are of that calibre. You have [...]

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New housing product showcasing in Paremoremo

If you drive along Paremoremo Rd, about halfway long  you will see a blue and white sign saying Durawall.  You will probably wonder what it is all about. Durawall is a strong concrete panel system that offers a solution to leaky homes.  It consists of a concrete panel on the exterior wall of the home with [...]

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When we purchased a property, we had no idea…

When my husband Grant purchased a property in Paremoremo in May 2003, we had no idea on what the area was really like.  We, like many others knew it housed the prison, it was semi rural and it was located close to Albany.  The attraction for us was that we were able to live close to [...]

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Paremoremo, but wait there’s more…

You may have read about some of the great things that are happening within the Paremoremo area, however the ‘Aucklander’ this week highlighted a significant area of Paremoremo that has stayed out of the spotlight.   Chief reporter Edward Rooney has written about Sanders Reserve.  This is 100 acres of pristine land overlooking the Waitemata Harbour, it is simply [...]

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Paremoremo is the place to be

The Press have finally announced it… Paremoremo is so much more than just a prison!  You may have read the feature article in last week’s Aucklander, where Edward Rooney interviewed me about Sustainable Paremoremo and how we have achieved so much within a relatively short period of time.    View the article. You never know quite [...]

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Paremoremo wins ARC Sustainable Environment Award

Best Sustainable Community Auckland Regional Council By working together the Paremoremore group has started its own Neighbourhood Watch, rid local streets of noxious weeds and possums, and organised an extra school bus for the area’s high school students. They have created an organic garden at the local school and organised a clothes swap at the [...]

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