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Episode: What's behind Sir Peter Jackson's growing property empire?
Description: Famed filmmakers Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh have been quietly expanding their land empire, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on properties across Wellington and Queenstown. Their recent purchase of land in Wellington’s Shelly Bay has seen a long-mooted new housing development scrapped, with the couple planning to return much of the land to nature. As much of the country grapples with a housing crisis, some critics have questioned why Jackson and Walsh have built up $350 million in property. So why are he and Walsh buying up all this land? And sh...