Freehold

Websites for small NZ organisations and businesses

Develop your site free. Keep it, and own it outright.

One email opens your Build Room. Tell your story there and a working website can be back the same day, live at a private link. Shape it with us for a free week, then keep it for a flat $800. Your website, freehold.

No forms, no calls, no account. One email opens your own room, and no is always fine.

Certificate of Title

Held Freehold

This website is held freehold by

your organisation

  • Owned outright, in your name
  • One flat price, nothing monthly
  • Free to move, any time you like
Open your Build Room Free to build · $800 to keep ·
$400 community rate
How it works

A website built in your own Build Room

You never log into anything or learn a tool. The only decision that costs you anything is the last one.

You tell your story in your Build Room

One email opens it. A quiet chat with the studio, one question at a time, and a shelf for your photos and documents.

You do this

We build it, fast

A real multi-page website, live at a private link. It can be back the same day your room is ready, and never more than a few days.

We do this

You shape it free for a week, then keep it or walk away

Ask for any change you like. Keep it for a flat $800 and it goes live in your name. Or walk away and it comes down the same day, no charge.

Your call

The full walk-through

The range

Every site we build is one of one

There’s no house template. These three are fictional businesses we made up to show how differently a Freehold site can turn out: a bakery, a rural sparky and a celebrant. Yours starts from your world, your words and your photos.

Three more we made earlier: Two Rivers Community Shed, Harbour Light Heritage Society and Southern Rivers Canoe Club.

What it costs

Free to build. $800 to keep. Nothing monthly, ever.

You only pay if you keep the finished site, and the price follows one published rule, the same for everyone.

$800once, to keep it · $400 at the community rate
The build window Seven days, unlimited edits, live and hosted. You owe nothing to try it.
Free
To keep it Once, flat, by one published rule. As many pages as your story needs, up to about 100.
$800
The community rate For when $800 would genuinely be a stretch: most often volunteer-run groups and community organisations where nobody is paid. How the call gets made.
$400
Or pay it off like a mortgage Nothing up front. $50 or $100 a month, your choice. When the payments reach your price they stop. No interest, no extra.
$50 or $100
Hosting, forever Held for you. Nothing monthly, ever.
$0
Edits after go-live Done in two to three days, or $35 to jump the queue, same day. If something is wrong, we fix it for nothing.
$20 a batch
To leave, any time The whole site and your domain, to any host. Nothing held back.
Free

From published prices, July 2026: an agency build runs from $3,500 and then $40 to $400 a month; a small studio $900 to $4,000 and then $40 to $150 a month. Here it is $800 once and $0 after. The whole map: what a website really costs in New Zealand.

Included with the deed

In the price, at either rate, only if you want it

Each one is set up on your own account, in your own name. Nothing metered, nothing monthly.

  • The site assistant

    Ask and Guide, trained on your own words. There is one in the corner of this page right now.

  • The management room

    A private room from a magic link. You say what to change, the studio makes and checks it. Never a dashboard.

  • Run from your inbox

    Freehold is the opposite of a website builder. Email a change and it gets made. Nothing to log into, nothing to maintain.

  • Booking, payments, newsletter

    Cal.com or Calendly, Givealittle or Stripe, and an email newsletter, each on your own account.

  • Set up to be found

    Google, the directories that matter for your work, and the AI assistants people now ask instead of searching.

Ready to start?

Ask for your Build Room

One email opens it. Tell us who you are in a line or two, and your private room link comes back by reply.

Or email us any time: studio@freehold.org.nz

No is always fine.

Freehold assistant Instant answers, any time
Ask us about Freehold…