https://www.trademe.co.nz/property/residential-property-for-sale/auction-1461234899.htm
$100,000 and falling (literally)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/10130365/A-year-of-living-dangerously
"A year ago [in 2013], in the early hours of June 1, the ground gave way beneath a quiet hillside street in the Wellington suburb of Kingston.
A 70-metre-long tranche of earth fell off the edge of Priscilla Cres and into the grounds of a Berhampore rest home below, taking entire backyards and hundreds of trees with it.
Woken by a roaring noise at 4.30am, residents sprinted from their homes to the street, some in their underwear, with nothing more than what they carried.
They saw gaping air where their lawns used to be, and water gushing from the face of the cliff left behind.
Luckily, no-one's house went with it, and no-one was hurt, but it was the start of a year of enormous hardship, especially for one family who found themselves, all at once, without insurance, grieving for their mother, and straining under a crippling burden of debt.
Some residents were out of their homes for a few weeks or months; others won't be going back at all."
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