Prominent and free-standing on the corner sites overlooking Sir John McKenzie Avenue, Village Residences are the notable houses within the village, much as the village doctor's or prosperous merchant's houses were in early Christchurch.

With three bedrooms (or two bedroom plus an office) and generous bathroom facilities, both upstairs and down, and adjacent on-street visitor parking, Village Residences are not only a grand family home, but also offer opportunities for a separate entrance to consulting rooms or offices. Elegant courtyards provide sunny outdoor rooms designed for el fresco dining and entertaining.

Village Life is a new way of living for Christchurch, combining the best traditions of the past with a new vision of the future.

Based on the most successful examples of neighbourhoods and communities from around the world, the two Village Life developments on the western and northern approaches to the city offer a new choice of lifestyle providing value, security and quality.

Created as villages, where shops, cafes and offices are an easy walk from your home, the Village Life developments in Yaldhurst and Belfast are built around a dynamic centre for shopping, entertainment, work and recreation. Boutique shops, street-side caf, retail and service outlets are interspersed with creative workspaces. These precincts provide a vibrant heart for the community, offering more than a place to live, but a way of life.

Underpinning that lifestyle choice is the extensive range of professionally designed dwellings to be built to accommodate all the ages and stages to be found within a balanced community, whether it's a chic first purchase, a well proportioned townhouse or substantial West Side family home, an easy care apartment, or a professional home office come studio, there are many different ways to live the Village Life.