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MEET & GREET

Kate Robinson (homeschool parent) and Tim Robinson (research company owner), and children Billy, 18, Finn, 16, and Theo, 10.

THE PROPERTY

A renovated period villa in Hawke’s Bay.

ate and Tim Robinson’s house has been, and will always be, a family affair. Throughout a long and laborious renovation, brother-in-law Sam acted as builder and project manager while daughter Mollie kept the walls covered with her whimsical oil pastels and paintings. Yet, perhaps most importantly of all, their charming Hawke’s Bay villa was previously owned by Tim’s parents for

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