Elegant Kiwi HOMES is a 100% New Zealand owned and operated company. Our company’s primary focus is building high-end residential property for first home buyers and investors. We believe that everyone deserve a high specs and well designed homes that is worth your investment.
The team behind Elegant Kiwi HOMES came from different background like Project Management, Finance, Legal and various Construction industry. Working together as a team brings out the best possible outcome for building industry.
Elegant Kiwi HOMES aim to take the best and proven ideas from NZ other countries and use those refined building methods to create a new style of living for housing developments. Our team pride ourselves in using high-quality products, bringing the latest technology, and superior fittings and finishes to the buildings we construct.
The innovative solutions we bring to the New Zealand building sector include the use of efficient project management philosophies like Six Sigma and Just in Time delivery. It means the affordable procurement and use of high-quality materials and leading assurance and health and safety systems. This saves money for customers while owning a high spec home that will stand the test of time.
The Elegant Kiwi HOMES team is led by the company director Ivan Presquito.
Ivan Presquito
Managing Director
MBA, CPA, GraDipBus, B.Com
Ivan has an MBA degree with a graduate diploma in business from Waikato Institute of Technology, with extensive construction experience gained through his work for a large Canterbury-based construction company.
Ivan is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 10 years’ experience in the fields of finance, accounting, information technology, business analysis and process design and implementation.
He has worked in both the Philippines and in the US for a number of Fortune 500 companies including Xerox, Shell Oil, Colgate, Palmolive and Mitsubishi Motors until he and his family fell in love with New Zealand and moved here in 2011.
He joined a small construction company in Christchurch in 2012 when it had only 15 people and a small net worth. Initially employed as the Finance Manager, Ivan applied his international skills and experience across the company. He set up systems and processes, reporting tools, overhauled the financials, and conducted a profitability analysis to determine what construction projects would generate the best revenue and the required scale to deliver in highest quality.