We started Nivas because too many good Auckland projects were dying in the gap between design and council.

Every Auckland developer has the same story. The design firm draws it. The planning consultant writes the report. The council asks for more information. The planner asks the designer. The designer revises. The planner re-writes. The application gets re-lodged. Repeat.

By the time it clears council, you've burned three months and tens of thousands of dollars on coordination — not design, not engineering, not construction. Coordination. The handover tax.

We've watched this kill projects that should have been straightforward.

We built Nivas around a single rule: the design and the planning don't change hands.

The same person who drew your lots writes the report. The same person who wrote the report answers council. We don't subcontract planning. We don't outsource the documentation. Everything that needs to be coordinated, gets coordinated by the same brain.

It's a smaller way to work. It's also faster, cleaner, and more accountable. When something goes wrong, there's nowhere to hide. That's intentional.

Most of our clients are Auckland property developers — people running 2 to 10 dwelling subdivisions, often on tight timelines and tighter margins. We also work with homeowners doing major renovations, and landowners who want to understand whether their site can actually be subdivided before they commit.

We're licensed to operate across the design, consenting, and coordination services Nivas offers. If your project sits outside our specialty, we'll tell you — and we'll usually know who to point you to.

We measure ourselves on three things:

• Time from brief to consent lodgement
• Number of RFI rounds before approval
• Whether the project came in within the fee we quoted

Most projects in our pipeline clear council within their original fee scope. When they don't, it's almost always because the scope itself changed — and we tell our clients before the work happens, not after.