Tyson Walker

I am currently living and working in the heart of Wānaka. I am passionate about Wānaka and the surrounding region of Central Otago. I believe Wānaka is the best little town in New Zealand and I am a huge advocate for the benefits it brings living in a town like this. 

I have had a wealth of experience in consumer banking. I am an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) and have had approximately 20 years of banking experience and accounting expertise, including senior institutional and retail banking roles for Westpac, BNZ and HSBC (in the UK). Throughout my banking career I have watched interest rates and margins but this in turn led me to focus my attention to first home buyers and question how do we get them into the NZ housing market? I am very interested in technology and how we harness this within the real estate marketplace. So, in 2015 I started Proppy.co.nz. New Zealand’s first and only fully digital real estate agency. It has grown from a start-up idea to a small national business and I am very proud to run this business right here from Wānaka. It also proves to me a national business can be run easily from Wānaka and not just the big