The enthusiasm that Prestige Building Removals staff have for their work quickly becomes evident when they reach for their phones and begin scrolling through photos of recent jobs.

There are pictures of brightly lit trucks working the highways in the small hours, hi-tech trailers perched in remarkable situations and houses re-positioned with spectacular views.

The pedigree of the Hamilton-based company goes back almost 50 years. Pat “Paddy” O’Sullivan owned and ran the business for 47 years before retiring and selling to Jason Barnes.

“I bought the business three years ago. Paddy retired in his early eighties, and we kept the same name, re-branded and then started investing in state-of-the-art equipment,” says Jason.

“Paddy mainly worked locally, and we have expanded to cover pretty much all of the North Island.”

Moving houses is typically a very specialised niche of the transport industry. But PBR takes a diversified approach with Jason’s background as a property developer seeing PBR buying and selling houses while sister company Advantage Designer Homes builds new transportable homes.

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