Property developer and arts patron Adrian Burr and associate Mark Taylor head companies that own property assets in New Zealand and Australia worth more than $1 billion.
He has a part-ownership of the prime 35ha Viaduct in Auckland and broad Newmarket landholdings around the railway line. He also worked with Kiwi Forests Group which bought Fletcher Challenge Forests' 100,000ha estate in 2004.
Closer to home he co-owns four homes on Herne Bay’s Cremorne St, which have a combined value of more than $44 million.
The most expensive of the five has a 2017 valuation of $24.5 million.
Burr has been an influential property investor for more than three decades, bursting on to the scene in the early 1980s with Chase. The development company flourished in the 1980s but was hit by the stock market collapse in 1987.
Burr then bought up key Newmarket, CBD waterfront, carpark buildings and later forestry estates.
He is the founding director of Auckland's School for Performing and Creative Arts, a generous philanthropist and co-owned the 1998 Melbourne Cup winner Jezabeel.
Photo: Norrie Montgomery
2018: $500 million