Large land play at the centre of Drury’s rise

A substantial development landholding positioned within one of New Zealand’s most heavily invested growth corridors is being brought to market, offering investors, developers and long-horizon purchasers a rare opportunity to secure scale alongside some of the country’s largest coordinated public and private sector projects, Bayleys brokers say.

Bayleys South Auckland Commercial, Industrial and Development Sales specialist Shane Snijder, together with colleagues David Bayley and Tommy Zhang, is marketing the 4.52ha (more or less) freehold property at 336 Oira Road for sale by tender, closing at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, 22nd July 2026 (unless sold prior).

The property sits within the rapidly evolving Drury South and Karaka corridor, immediately adjacent to the emerging 105ha Fisher & Paykel Healthcare campus, where infrastructure investment and metropolitan-scale growth are taking shape.

The offering includes a well-presented cottage providing interim holding income, while the landholding itself is distinguished by approximately 212 metres of road frontage and expansive estuary frontage overlooking Oira Creek.

Snijder says opportunities to secure large-scale greenfield landholdings within Auckland’s southern expansion corridor are becoming increasingly difficult as major development activity concentrates around key infrastructure and transport investment.

“South Auckland is no longer simply absorbing population spillover from the city. What’s occurring around Drury is the deliberate creation of an entirely new metropolitan node, supported by coordinated transport, employment and commercial investment at a scale New Zealand rarely sees,” he says.

“Once rail, motorway and employment infrastructure are committed, surrounding landholdings begin transitioning from speculative growth stories into strategically constrained development opportunities. That repricing cycle is already evident across the Drury/Karaka region.”

The property sits within minutes of the nearly completed Drury and Ngākōroa railway stations and benefits from proximity to the fast-tracked Drury Metropolitan Centre, where significant mixed-use commercial expansion is underway.

Broader investment across the corridor includes NZX-listed Kiwi Property’s 51ha Drury Town Centre development, Stevenson Group’s 361ha Drury South Crossing masterplanned precinct, and major residential communities, including Auranga and Paerata Rise, in addition to Health New Zealand’s recently announced process to secure land for a future South Auckland hospital in Drury. Together, these projects reflect the scale of investment in employment, housing, and civic infrastructure reshaping Auckland’s southern growth corridor.

Current long-term planning projections indicate that the wider Drury growth area is ultimately expected to support a population comparable in scale to that of a city the size of Napier, reflecting the extraordinary level of demographic and urban expansion already underway.

Bayley Corporation executive director David Bayley says local activity reflects a global urban growth pattern in which advanced manufacturing, logistics infrastructure, and metropolitan-scale residential intensification cluster around major transport investments.

“The significance of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare’s commitment to the area extends well beyond a single corporate occupier,” he says. “When globally recognised businesses commit to long-duration infrastructure and employment investment, it fundamentally changes the economic gravity of a location. That tends to accelerate surrounding demand for housing, services, commercial accommodation and supporting urban infrastructure.”

The Oira Road property stands to further benefit from planned upgrades to State Highway 22 and surrounding transport infrastructure, while remaining approximately 40 minutes from Auckland’s CBD, and less than 30 kilometres from both Manukau and the Airport precinct.

Bayleys Auckland Metro director Tommy Zhang says the concentration of infrastructure and corporate investment now occurring across Auckland’s south is accelerating the corridor's transition from a peripheral growth area into a fully integrated metropolitan economy.

“What makes this precinct increasingly significant is the alignment of multiple demand drivers at once – employment expansion, freight and transport connectivity, population growth, and institution-scale urban planning,” he says.

“This property sits in the middle of the transition, well-positioned to benefit from the area’s accelerating development, while still offering the flexibility and scale sophisticated capital looks for when planning longer-term projects.”