PHOTO: Supplied – Daniel Leighton, 30, plans to convert an old bus into a home.
Converting two buses into homes, renting out a van on a car-sharing app and buying two hours north of Auckland are some of the tactics an enterprising young Aucklander has adopted to get on the property ladder.
Daniel Leighton made a “strategic” purchase of 4.9 hectares (12 acres) of land last year, after coming to the conclusion he had been priced out of the Auckland market.
“I don’t earn enough to justify being in Auckland indefinitely,” Leighton said.
Leighton, 30, lives in the North Shore suburb of Albany and works as a watercare operations engineer.
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