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  • Christchurch’s rental market is oversupplied and freshly-built terraced houses are sitting empty and unsold in the suburbs. How did the city with the real estate market decimated by the earthquakes get here? MICHAEL WRIGHT reports.

Last month, Mike Blackburn bought a house. He and his wife looked at about 40 properties before settling on one. As they traipsed through the preceding 39, a pattern emerged.

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Awatea Green is one of a number of large-scale housing developments on the outskirts of Christchurch.