Promoting co-ownership: Sales consultant Kirsty Sinclair. PHOTO: SUPPLIEDSo you think you could never buy property in ‘unaffordable’ Queenstown? Local Harcourts sales consultant Kirsty Sinclair says for the past two years she’s helped friends and family members — non-couples — club together to buy something. ‘Co-ownership’, she believes, is "an absolutely brilliant way of finding a way to get into this market and remain in Queenstown". She recently helped, for example, three friends get into their first property in Shotover Country — "that’s going to be, you know, a life-changer for them".

Source: Otago Daily Times January 24, 2026 15:37 UTC