Making challenging scenarios simple.
Facilitating both highly productive and beneficial outcomes for land and people with proven efficiency.
Strategic property advice and negotiation
Lakes Property provides strategic property advice across negotiation, development, resource management, valuation, and commercial property matters, throughout Queenstown and wider New Zealand. Led by Dan Egerton, the focus is on helping landowners, developers, and private clients protect value, unlock opportunity, and navigate complex property issues with confidence. From easements, access rights, and Public Works Act matters through to subdivision strategy and development feasibility, Dan combines practical commercial thinking with deep local knowledge.
Lakes Property works closely with trusted planners, valuers, surveyors, engineers, and legal professionals to ensure clients have the right expertise for every stage of a project or negotiation. With experience managing complex developments and high-profile commercial assets, the approach is proactive, solutions-focused, and commercially driven. Whether negotiating a property issue, structuring a deal, or managing a development from concept to completion, the priority is always clear advice, strong positioning, and practical outcomes that preserve and enhance long-term value.
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Property negotiation
Property rights are often where value is either protected or lost. I assist landowners, developers, and private parties with practical negotiation support across a range of property matters, including easements, access arrangements, rights of way, covenants, boundary issues, encumbrances, and wider property rights.
Resource management
Resource management is rarely black and white. What can be done with land depends on the RMA, national direction, regional and district plans, overlays, activity status, existing use rights, permitted activity rules, consent pathways, and how those provisions are interpreted in practice.
Property valuation
Some property deals look out of reach at first glance. Often, that is not the end of the matter.
We help clients look beyond the obvious barriers and identify practical ways to unlock value, release capital, and make a transaction work. This may involve rethinking ownership structures, staging, vendor terms, deferred settlements, subdivision potential, access arrangements, funding pathways, or other commercial mechanisms that can turn a difficult deal into a workable one.
Deal structuring
Property valuation is not an exact science. The right outcome often depends on using the right valuer for the right job.
Development management
Successful development is not just about having a good site. It is about understanding the process, opening the right doors, managing the right people, and sequencing each step properly so the project keeps moving.
We assist clients with practical development management across rural, residential, and lifestyle projects. This includes early feasibility, consent strategy, water requirements, access, servicing, subdivision process, planting, site improvements, and coordinating the right professional team for the job.
Commercial property management
Commercial property management is about far more than collecting rent and arranging maintenance. A well managed building protects value, improves tenant retention, reduces unnecessary cost, and delivers the best possible return on investment over time.
Commercial buildings have their own intricacies. Lease obligations, rent reviews, operating expenses, maintenance planning, contractor management, compliance, tenant relationships, capital works, insurance matters, and long term asset presentation all need to be managed properly. When these details are handled well, the building performs. When they are not, value is quickly lost.