Who the fast is Aera?

Who are we?

Thanks for asking.

We’re a collection of free thinkers who have previously held high positions in banks, marketing and finance. 

As individuals and as a collective, we love using our gained experience to help those around us. 

Often it’s looking at a problem from multiple angles. Then applying some out of the box thinking and ideas grounded in common sense to solve it. 

A recent problem friends and family talked to us about was they’d given up  ever owning their first home.  That it was too hard the the system was stacked against them.

Diving into this, we discovered some interesting solutions that they could get a first home, and faster than they thought possible. Especially the ones that couldn’t rely on the bank of Mum and Dad.

We tested this and the results were amazing.

Encouraged by this, we created Aera as a way to even the first home battle ground for everyone. 

We then spent another year developing a system that would benefit and help all Kiwis in the same way.

To surround buyers with a First Home Faster team. To give them a Game Plan and break down barriers that they imagined were holding them back.

Success to us is changing the way people think about first homes and then getting one.

When the average first home price today is only $685,000 and you only need 10% you can do the maths: $50,000 is far too big a chunk to take for ‘helping’ people get there. 

One of the reasons it’s the way it is is because you often need a different relationship with every one of those middlemen which massively increases cost and inefficiency. 

Most Kiwis don’t have a game plan either for how they’re going to get there, and there aren’t a lot of people helping them until they’re ready. 


So what’s our answer? To bring everything together in house, to help people get that first house. And to share all fees, to get them there even faster.

One team, one app, one brand to get you into your first home half the time with half the deposit with a $10k head start.

That’s what we are building at Aera.

Up to $10k head start towards your deposit →
A personal first home coaching team →
Your Aera Playbook™ Game Plan to get bank-fit and mortgage ready →
Your own first home finder to find you a brand new first home →
Faster saving through our high interest accounts →
Find your new build today