pair said life was "absolutely perfect". "We have one of the best views in Christchurch and with a view like this our house will always be desirable," Denis Hamilton-Seymour said. In a few years the area would have new services, new sewage pipes, new roads and "the view is just going to get better when the red zone homes go". "We will be in the country in the city and we have no worries at all," he said. They agreed TC3 homes in their area would become sought-after in a few years but said when the time came there would not be any for sale. "People won't sell because everyone loves it here. Why the hell would you sell?" The only handbrake that came with a TC3 property was if a homeowner wanted to rebuild a new house because there would be significant extra costs ensuring the foundations met the building code, he said. Dee Collins lives along the Heathcote River in a TC3 property and said her home "rocks and rolls like a piece of jelly" in an aftershock, but she "wouldn't be surprised" if her rebuilt river-front home was among the most attractive in the city in a few years. Before the quakes real estate companies used to drop leaflets into her letterbox regularly asking if she was interested in selling her house and she said it was a good sign the leaflets had started appearing once again. Collins was shocked when she heard she was sitting on