Aurora Property Group manages commercial property for owners who hold it for long-term passive and value-add purposes — iwi entities, institutional partners, or private owners. Property held to protect legacy.
Won at acquisition. Then protected or eroded, month by month, by how the asset is managed. That is our job.
Day-to-day custody of the asset and the record behind it.
Advice from the owner's side of the table. Most development consultants have only ever worked one side of a project — the fund, or the site. We have worked both.
Neighbourhood retail centre, completed 2018. Nine tenancies anchored by FreshChoice Mandeville, with an NPD service station, early childhood centre, café, bar and restaurant, takeaways and a bakery.
Four-level office on a prominent corner site — one of the first in the Bay of Plenty to achieve a Green Star design rating. Heat recovery ventilation and a high proportion of recycled steel.
Six-storey A-grade office and car park one block from the new hospital precinct. Anchor tenants Pacific Radiology, Inland Revenue and Oranga Tamariki.
The Farmers department store on the golden mile. Two levels of large format retail with loading and storage, and a third level of office above.
Purpose-built pet food manufacturing — laboratory, product development, food-grade and wet production, dry and freezer storage. Complex specialist detailing throughout.
Office, large format retail, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, ground leases and forestry — with tenants ranging from Crown agencies and listed corporates to private business owners.
Aurora Property Group · Christchurch based, but working across the motu · Owned and run by Bevan and Kelly Hames · Managing and developing commercial property for over 20 years.
Each property is treated in isolation and receives a targeted management plan focused on the ways to maximise returns specific to that asset, and to the needs of the owners behind it.
Governance-grade reporting to owners, boards and trustees. Budgeting and cashflow forecasting, portfolio performance analysis, and a single view across every asset you hold.
Rent reviews and renewals administered under the machinery of the existing lease — notices prepared and served, time limits observed, the record kept. A lease diary maintained years ahead so no review, expiry or right of renewal arrives unplanned.
Invoicing, arrears control and debt recovery. Operating expense budgets, levies, and annual reconciliation of outgoings. RWT, GST and distribution information prepared for your accountant. Day-to-day liaison with tenants.
Building warrants of fitness, compliance schedules and statutory inspections. Insurance administration. Health and safety management under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, including contractor pre-qualification. Planned and reactive maintenance, and continuous review of operating expenditure.
Development and design management. Scoping, procurement and delivery of building works, including strategic growth and material capex projects, with consenting and compliance obligations tracked through to code compliance.
Comparable rental evidence assembled to support a rent review under the terms of the lease, and registered valuations arranged on your behalf.
The portfolio runs on Re-Leased, integrated with Xero — giving you live access to leases, compliance records, maintenance history and financial reporting rather than a monthly PDF.
As a boutique private operator we deliver a cost-effective structure, which means owners get a premium service for competitive fees.
Aurora advises property owners from the owner's side of the table. Most development consultants have only ever worked one side of a project — the fund, or the site. We have worked both.
That means a feasibility that reflects what a project will actually cost to deliver, and a fit-for-purpose scope and delivery programme that reflects what the investment case actually needs. We are engaged across the full development cycle, or at any single point in it.
Assessment of sites and opportunities you are considering, highest and best use analysis, due diligence support, and financial modelling to test an investment case before capital is committed.
Assessment of highest and best use and the strategies to deliver it. Rezoning, consenting strategy and resource management approvals.
Assembling and directing the consultant team, and holding the design to the brief, the budget and the programme.
Procurement, contract administration and delivery oversight. We manage the scope, programme, budget, and the consultant and contractor teams. You contract directly with the builder, and we act for you within that contract — so the accountability sits where it belongs.
Portfolio strategy, asset repositioning, and reporting to boards, trustees and investment committees. We work across office, industrial, large-format retail and mixed-use sectors, including retirement living — from large-scale master-planning and place-making through to one-off projects.
More than 25 properties and over 40 tenancies across seven regions, from Dunedin in the south to Auckland in the north. A sample of them is below.
A modern neighbourhood retail centre serving Mandeville North and the surrounding Waimakariri district, purpose-built and completed in 2018. Nine tenancies, anchored by the FreshChoice Mandeville supermarket, alongside an NPD service station, an early childhood centre, a café, bar and restaurant, takeaway outlets and a bakery.
The centre is architecturally designed with a rural character suited to its setting, with on-site parking throughout. The site has recently been rezoned to a Local Centre zone — managed by Aurora — increasing land-use permissibility and activity optionality.
A four-level commercial office building on a prominent corner site in central Tauranga — one of the first office buildings in the Bay of Plenty to achieve a Green Star design rating. Two levels of basement car parking sit beneath a ground floor of retail and office space, with three further levels of office accommodation above, looking out over the central business district and the harbour beyond.
The building was designed around its environmental performance. A heat recovery ventilation system reclaims energy from the building's extracts and re-uses it to heat and cool the air. Lighting is grouped into efficient zones with occupancy sensors, occupants are given guides to control the services in their own space, and the structure contains a high proportion of recycled steel.
A six-storey A-grade commercial office and car park development in central Ōtepoti Dunedin, one block from the city's new hospital precinct. Anchor tenants are Pacific Radiology, Inland Revenue and Oranga Tamariki, with the building well suited to professional and medical occupiers.
The building has a Green Star 5 rating, uncommon in the Dunedin market, and its architecture reflects the cultural history of the site. On-site parking is managed by the Dunedin City Council, and the car park also serves the George Street retail block one block east.
The Farmers department store on Dunedin's golden mile. Two levels of large format retail with associated loading and storage, and a third level of office accommodation above.
The building sits on the eastern side of George Street, five minutes' walk from the Octagon, and is one of very few large format retail sites in central Dunedin.
A large-scale pet food manufacturing facility purpose-built for Ziwi, a New Zealand manufacturer and exporter specialising in air-dried pet food. The facility accommodates laboratory, product development, food-grade and wet production, and dry and freezer storage — a combination requiring complex specialist detailing and finishes throughout.
The design and construction provide a hygienic, durable and highly insulated internal environment, capable of holding the room temperatures each process requires. The building sits within the Awatoto industrial precinct.
The wider portfolio spans office, large format retail, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, ground leases and forestry — across the motu, with tenants ranging from Crown agencies and listed corporates to private business owners.
Aurora prides itself on forming long-term, trust-based relationships — and holds a solid network of consultants, sub-trade contractors, suppliers, advisers, banks and valuers behind them.
Bevan leads Aurora's consultancy. He has over 20 years' experience in fund management, property development, investment and construction across New Zealand and Australia, including senior executive roles with both private and listed companies and ownership of private development businesses.
He is a partner in a New Zealand fund management and property investment firm, where he serves as general manager of its commercial, housing and development funds. His development experience spans land improvement and rezoning, commercial design–build projects, and large-scale mixed-tenure and retirement living developments.
Kelly's role is at director and advisory level. She sets the strategy, the standards and the commercial framework the business operates to, rather than running the day-to-day. She has significant leadership experience, from senior executive positions with multinational corporates to running large-scale private companies with over 60 employees under management.
She leads Aurora's data integrity and technology strategy: the portfolio runs on Re-Leased integrated with Xero, and Kelly's work is what makes that more than a filing system, so a lease diary, an outgoings reconciliation or a board report comes from one reliable source rather than being rebuilt by hand. She also holds the governance side — the management agreements, the fee framework and the reporting owners receive.
Amy joined Aurora in 2020 and manages the national portfolio across the motu — more than 25 properties and over 40 tenancies. It is an unusually broad brief, spanning A-grade office, large format retail, purpose-built manufacturing, neighbourhood retail centres, ground leases and forestry, with tenants ranging from Crown agencies and listed corporates to small private business owners.
She holds the operating rhythm of all of it: the lease diary, rent reviews and renewals administered under the terms of each lease, arrears, outgoings budgets and annual reconciliations, contractor and maintenance coordination, and the compliance and health and safety obligations attaching to every property. Owners deal with Amy. That is rather the point — the relationship sits with the person who actually knows the buildings.
Aurora is a boutique private operator working from Christchurch, across the motu. If you hold commercial property and want it run properly, start here.