Conroy Removals Busy With Aussies Moving To Nz

The NZ Herald recently reported on the number of Australians moving to New Zealand and had one story in particular about a marketing director moving from Sydney to Wellington six months’ ago. There was nothing surprising in that the first thing he noticed was that Wellington had none of the angst experienced by Sydneysiders around their core obsession: property prices. "You read the papers about how difficult it is to buy a house back home," he said. "When you arrive somewhere that you can live incredibly close to work in a place that has water views for at least half the price of what you'd expect in Sydney, it's game changing."

 

The busy team at Conroy Removals are finding this same scenario with a large percentage of the customers they help with their moving services. While Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talks up innovation, jobs and growth, the New Zealand Government has been luring entrepreneurs with co-working spaces and publicly funded business incubators. Unlike Australia there's no payroll tax or capital gains tax, and companies pay just 28 per cent and the top personal tax rate is 33 per cent. It's all part of the drive to grow exports to 40 per cent of New Zealand's GDP by 2025, moving away from reliance on primary industries like meat, dairy and wool farming.

 

And it's working, with 54 companies featured on Deloitte's Fast 500 Asia Pacific list last year, 13 of them in Wellington, keeping the Conroy moving team busier than ever. By comparison, Australia - with a population more than five times NZ's 4.4 million - had 80 companies on the list. "We recognise that we're a small economy and a very open economy, so we want to make sure we attract skills," said Chris Whelan, chief executive of the Wellington Economic Development Agency.

 

"And the tyranny of distance is easily overcomable when one is thinking of things in a knowledge sense. To work in that space you don't need to be close to a mega city, but you need to be globally oriented and globally connected." He said Wellington was perfectly placed for a tech hub, with Singapore Airlines having just announced a new route via Canberra. While Australia struggles with its transition from the mining boom, Wellington boasts an economy where almost half of the working population is employed in knowledge-intensive industries.

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While they are extremely busy with all this trans Tasman business, the friendly team at Conrad Removals are never too busy to help Kiwis with their own furniture removal and moving requirements. For further information please go to http://www.conroy.co.nz .