Home of the Year 2026
Small Home of the Year | City Home of the Year | Rural Home of the Year | Multi-Unit Home of the Year | Green Home of the Year | Alt & Reno Home of the Year | Readers’ Choice Award
Home of the Year is an annual programme that celebrates the country’s best new homes, and comes with a $10K prize for the overall winner.
Home of the Year is New Zealand’s highly regarded award for residential architecture, with categories to celebrate the best City Home of the Year, Small Home of the Year, Rural Home of the Year, Green Home of the Year, Alt & Reno Home of the Year, and Multi-Unit Home of the Year, each of which recognises the specific nuances of architecture in different contexts.
The overall Home of the Year winner is awarded to a home that captures a moment in time: they aren’t always the grandest, though there have been plenty of those over the years too. They are pure expressions of architectural thought, a unique intersection between a client’s brief and the designer’s vision.
Key Dates
September 2025
Entries open for Home of the Year 2026.
Details announced in the October/November issue of HOME.
December 2025
Entries close for Home of the Year 2026; judges announced.
Preliminary judging begins.
February 2026
Judging commences; finalists announced in the February/March issue of HOME.
Readers’ Choice Award voting opens.
March 2026
Awards presentation event and announcement of winners.
HOME’s Home of the Year Special (April/May issue) hits the shelves. All winners are publicly announced and published in this issue.
Home of the Year 2022
Home of the Year 2021
Read more about previous entrants and winners
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