The Registered Master Builders House of the Year Auckland, Northland and Coromandel Awards Gala is held at NZICC on Saturday 8 August 2026 — one of seven regional evenings in the national residential-building awards series.
The Master Builders House of the Year 2026 Auckland, Northland and Coromandel Regional Awards Gala takes place on Saturday 8 August 2026 at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in central Auckland. NZICC confirms it is hosting the gala in its Te Paepae Theatre and Rouako Room, staged as a gala and cocktail evening for building-industry professionals.
House of the Year celebrates the best in New Zealand residential construction — new homes, show homes, renovations and luxury builds. The programme has run for more than 30 years, and the Auckland regional gala is one stop in a nationwide series of judged awards evenings.
The awards are owned and run by the Registered Master Builders Association (RMBA), New Zealand's building-trade body, through its dedicated House of the Year programme. RMBA runs the competition as an annual national cycle: entries for 2026 opened on 9 January and closed on 23 February, followed through the year by a sequence of regional gala evenings. The programme's principal sponsor is Mitre 10 Trade, alongside a sponsor family that includes Resene, PDL by Schneider Electric, Altus Window Systems, APL Window Solutions, Winstone Wallboards, Bunnings Trade and Plumbing World.
The gala is an industry-professional event, bringing together builders, suppliers and building-sector leaders to recognise craftsmanship across the Auckland, Northland and Coromandel region. Winners from the regional evenings feed into the national picture, giving the night both a local celebratory purpose and a place in the wider awards ladder.
The Auckland, Northland and Coromandel gala is one of seven regional evenings in the 2026 calendar — running from Canterbury on 17 July through Bay of Plenty and Central Plateau, Waikato, Southern, Central North Island, Auckland on 8 August, and Cook Strait on 14 August. The series culminates in the National Awards Gala at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre on 21 November 2026.
For NZICC, the House of the Year gala is a large-format awards dinner — the kind of industry gala that fills convention-centre banqueting space outside the conference-season peak. It is a reminder that awards evenings are a core strand of the business-events calendar: recurring, sponsor-backed sector celebrations that draw hundreds of professionals into a venue for a single high-value night, and that sit alongside conferences in a convention centre's annual mix.
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