Extreme weather has tested New Zealand’s infrastructure and reshaped the way financial institutions think about land risk. Floods, slips and rising water tables have exposed weaknesses in how banks and insurers assess property stability. Traditional approaches that rely on council maps and historical claims data are no longer enough. An artistic representation of the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite orbiting above New Zealand. This geospatial data gives lenders, i

Owning a home in Aotearoa comes with a bit more than just a mortgage and a lawn to mow. Our country’s wild landscapes are the result of some serious underground forces, and they haven’t stopped moving. With active faults, creeping hillsides, coastal erosion, and volcanic zones across both islands – many homeowners are sitting on land that’s subtly shifting beneath them. Especially for Kiwis, a lot of this movement happens too slowly to notice… until it doesn’t. InSAR Land Mov