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Two Auckland property companies have been fined $74,000 after getting consent to build seven affordable homes, but billing customers for driveways and landscaping.
Imperial Homes North West Limited and Imperial Garden Investment Limited, collectively known as Imperial Homes, have also refunded customers nearly $400,000.
Under Special Housing area rules, the companies were given fast-tracked consent to build houses at Scott Point in Hobsonville and sell them for no more than $636,000.
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