About Hāpai
Hāpai is a property fund that is unique in Aotearoa being 100% Iwi owned and controlled, and singularly focused on empowering enduring Māori success in the property sector.
Hāpai concentrates on combining Iwi capacity with Iwi proprietary opportunity to drive the collective growth of the Māori property economy. Hāpai was founded in 2019 by six Iwi to undertake their property investment collectively, enabling scale, diversification and effective execution. Hāpai’s investment mandate covers commercial investment property, housing (build-to-rent and retirement villages) and development property (land and residential development).
Our Shared Values
Rangatiratanga
He toki nui, toki roa, toki tē mawetewete.
Carrying an adze whose bindings will never be loosened, a symbol of mana, authority and leadership.
Manaakitanga
He rātā whakamaru, he uru kahikatea.
The great rātā trees and kahikatea groves stand as protectors for the under growth, symbolising support for growth and development.
Kotahitanga
Ki te kotahi ka whati, ki te kāpuia e kore e whati.
A single stick of kakaho will easily break, but when bound together they are unbreakable; denoting the importance of the strength of working as a collective in order to achieve shared goals and outcomes.
Kaitiakitanga
Toitū taiao.
Sustainable environment, building a sustainable vibrant community.
Whānaungatanga
Tuia te kawe.
Binding together the collective Iwi aspiration, vision and “strength” the plaited kawe (handle) of the kit is used as a metaphor to bind these all together denoting the importance of relationships as the foundation for collective kaupapa.
Our Collective Approach
Iwi Lead for Māori Outcomes - Iwi / Māori owned, controlled and solution focused.
Partnership - Committed to partnering with mana whenua, iwi and hapū to combine capacity with proprietary opportunity and create collective value.
Flexible - Delineated by property asset class (commercial, development and housing) to allow discretion for each individual iwi investor to allocate capital that fits with their asset allocation strategies.
Focused - Focused and disciplined strategy, policies and execution for each of the three property classes.
Effective - High quality, cost-effective and common governance and management across the three property asset classes that optimises the collective Iwi potential.
Scale - Working as a collective allows scale which enables better access to pipeline, execution and risk management.
Specialist execution - Where sensible Hāpai partners with specialist operators or managers to de-risk or optimise outcomes.
Open-ended - Aligned to iwi investment time horizon providing inter-generational investment and the allocation of further capital over time as each Investor grows its own pūtea.
Priority outcomes for whānau - Delivering key housing and associated benefits for whānau members, encouraging employment through supply chain and enabling cultural interpretation within design.
Hāpai
Hāpai as a term means to ‘support’ and to ‘uplift’. The use of Hāpai is applied in this context to symbolise the idea of supporting iwi, with shared values, collectivise to empower leadership, excellence and growth in the property sector.
The logo conceptualises a stylised form of the traditional whare. The whare form not only symbolises the nature of the investment focus in property, but houses both the connection between iwi and the collective aspirations for leadership, excellence and growth. This form also conceptualises a stylised letter ‘H’ as the key letter in Hāpai. The small koru designs also symbolise the potential for growth.