Saben Group is a Queenstown-based development and building company led by Lauren Christie - one of the region's most experienced development professionals, with a track record that spans land, buildings, infrastructure, brand, and the spaces people return to again and again.

Lauren's most formative work came at Ayrburn, where she held responsibility for one of Queenstown's most ambitious and closely watched hospitality and land developments. Present from the beginning, she remained at the helm through to full delivery. As Ayrburn's vision expanded, Lauren scaled the team and the operation with it, holding strategic oversight without ever losing touch with the detail that makes the difference between good and genuinely great.

Her contribution at Ayrburn extended well beyond the physical. Lauren played a central role in shaping the identity and developing other aspects such as the wine brand — ensuring that the place and its offering were coherent, distinctive, and commercially grounded. It is a rare thing to find someone who can pour a foundation and build a brand in the same breath. That is precisely what Lauren does.

Saben Group is the natural extension of that experience — a focused vehicle for residential development and select projects of broader ambition. The team is small by design. Every project receives Lauren's direct attention, from the first site conversation through to the final finish.

We believe that spaces should nourish, that materiality matters, that integrity cannot be value-engineered out, and that the best buildings are the ones that feel inevitable once they are standing. That conviction runs through everything Saben Group touches.