Cabemaiwai Developments — Land, developed in partnership
Suva foreshore
Cabemaiwai Developments · Suva, Fiji

Land, developed
in partnership
with those who own it

We create titled, build-ready land in Fiji: master-planned subdivisions, mixed-use precincts, and waterfront projects, developed with the Indigenous landowning groups whose land it is, and built by our own civil and quarry business.

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1,000–1,200
Acres of Suva foreshore for reclamation
389
Residential lots in the pipeline
130
Stage 1 titles issued at Waisasa
36 ha
Flagship master-planned site
99 + 99
Year lease with automatic renewal
The group

One group,
from land to delivery

Cabemaiwai Developments is an Indigenous Fijian (iTaukei)-owned development group based in the Suva–Nausori corridor. We bring land forward with the groups who own it, secure the title and the approvals, and then build it ourselves.

Most of Fiji's best land is held communally by Indigenous landowning groups. Bringing it into production is not a transaction, it is a relationship, conducted through customary protocol and formal process at the same time, and it takes years rather than months.

That work is what we do. Because the civil crews, plant, and aggregate all sit inside the group, the subdivision that gets consented is the subdivision that gets built, and the margin stays in the group rather than going out to subcontractors.

Development

Cabemaiwai Developments

The group's development business: landowner partnerships, approvals and titling, master planning, and delivery of residential, mixed-use, and waterfront projects.

Execution

ECCC Civil & Quarries

Our civil and quarry arm, trading as ECCC. Roads and bulk earthworks for the Fiji Roads Authority and private clients, with hard rock aggregate produced from the group's own quarries.

Resource ventures

Navuku Holdings

The group's joint-venture company for landowner resource projects, formed to bring clan-held land and minerals into production with the landowning group holding equity.

Land & title

What you actually
own in Fiji

Fiji is a common law jurisdiction, in common with Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka and other Commonwealth countries. Its land titles run on a registered system very similar to Torrens title in South Australia, and land is held as freehold, Crown land, or leasehold.

01

Communal land

Much of Fiji's prime land is held communally by Indigenous landowning groups under native title, administered by the iTaukei Land Trust Board. It cannot simply be bought.

02

The conversion

Working with the landowning group and its traditional leadership, we carry out the customary protocols and ceremonies alongside the formal approvals and applications required to convert that land into a registered lease.

03

Registered title

What emerges is a registered 99-year lease with an automatic 99-year renewal: a financeable, transferable interest that behaves the way land does anywhere in the Commonwealth.

99 + 99Years of registered tenure

A 99-year lease in Suva works in much the same way as a 99-year lease in Knightsbridge. Freehold parcels naturally carry a premium over leasehold, but a registered lease of this length carries the certainty an owner would expect in London, Sydney or Toronto. Because the landowning group stays a shareholder in the project company, that title also arrives with its traditional and institutional support already secured.

Developments

Projects in delivery

From master-planned subdivisions on the Suva–Nausori corridor to mixed-use and waterfront precincts in the capital. Project economics are available to qualified parties under NDA.

Waisasa subdivision plan
In delivery

Waisasa / Tacirua

Princes Road · 13 minutes from Suva CBD

Our flagship: a 36-hectare master-planned residential and commercial community on land held by Mataqali Nawavatu under a registered development lease. Stage 1 titles are already issued, which is the hardest part of any Fijian subdivision and the part most schemes never reach. Delivery runs in four stages, with a commercial precinct fronting Princes Road.

298
Residential lots
130
Stage 1 titles issued
5.5 ac
Commercial precinct
Service Street retail precinct concept
In approvals

Service Street

Central Suva · riverfront site

A mixed-use precinct on a riverfront site in central Suva, overlooking two private schools. Phase one delivers a supermarket, retail, food and beverage, and basement parking; phase two adds apartments above with a pool and residents' amenities. Designed by Architects Pacific, with the landowning groups and the Tui Suva's holding company as shareholders alongside Cabemaiwai.

10,115
sqm gross floor area
56
Apartments
3,550
sqm commercial phase
Delainevesi subdivision plan
In delivery

Delainevesi

Suva · Tui Suva land

A compact residential subdivision on Tui Suva land, and the group's most immediate delivery. Development finance is approved, the final survey is complete, and submission to Town and Country Planning is the next step. Buyer interest was confirmed on more than half the lots before titling, which tells you most of what you need to know about demand for serviced land in Suva.

18
Residential lots
10
Lots with buyer interest pre-title
Loni subdivision plan
In planning

Loni

Suva corridor

An affordable housing subdivision aimed squarely at first home buyers, including families moving out of informal settlements, and matched to the zero-deposit home loan products now available in the Fijian market. Rezoning to smaller lot sizes is the value-creation step; an access road is the gating item, and we have proposed to scope and build it ourselves.

73
Residential lots
500–600
sqm target lot size
Suva Point Fishing Club concept render
Concept

Suva Point Marina Precinct

Suva Point · waterfront

A long-horizon waterfront precinct at Suva Point, held in equal partnership with the Tui Suva: a fishing club and restaurant, a cultural gathering hall, a marina, and in later stages an eco-boutique hotel and apartments. The architectural masterplan brief is complete and feasibility is the next step. The site sits beside a proposed ferry terminal and a new international-brand hotel nearing completion.

~5 ac
Waterfront site
3
Staged phases
Service Street site aerial
Pipeline

Lami Soapstone

Lami · Suva

A two-stage concept on a soapstone deposit close to Suva. Stage one wins and supplies fill material into the reclamation and civil works now underway around the capital; stage two develops the worked site as a residential subdivision. The group is in the process of securing leases over the deposit.

2
Stages: quarry, then subdivision
Suva foreshore redevelopment area
The long horizon

The Suva
foreshore

The foreshore of Suva harbour is the capital's last great land opportunity: reclaimed in stages and released as titled, build-ready land in a city that has run out of room to grow. We work alongside the traditional owners of that foreshore, whose consent gates every stage of it.

The programme is in live negotiation and its terms are confidential. What can be said is that it would be delivered with the group's own reclamation and fill capability, supplied from our own quarries.

ECCC Civil & Quarries

The arm that builds it

Trading as ECCC, our civil and quarry arm delivers roads and earthworks for the Fiji Roads Authority and private clients, and produces the aggregate that supplies every project on this page.

Viria Road widening and drainage works
Under construction

Viria Road

Central Division · Fiji Roads Authority

Widening and rehabilitation of Viria Road under contract to the Fiji Roads Authority, with monthly certified progress claims and the full national-authority reporting and audit regime. This is the group's anchor civil contract and its proof of delivery: a full year of weekly reports, certified claims, and safety records with the national roads authority.

12 mo
Current contract term
FRA
Client
Traffic management on Viria Road
Contracted

Naitasiri Emergency Roadworks

Naitasiri Province · Fiji Roads Authority

A separate emergency roadworks contract for Naitasiri province, running to July 2027. Together with Viria Road it gives the civil arm continuous work with the national roads authority through the middle of 2027, and positions it for the multi-year zone maintenance contracts now going to tender.

2027
Runs to July
RAMM
Accredited team
Naqali Quarry crusher
Recommissioning

Naqali Quarry

Naitasiri Highlands

The group's hard rock quarry in the Naitasiri highlands, supplying FRA-compliant aggregate to Central Division contractors and to our own road and subdivision works. The plant is in final reconditioning ahead of restart, and it is the closest licensed aggregate source to the Suva–Nausori corridor.

Central
Division supply
In-house
Aggregate for group projects
Vucikonasinu earthworks
Delivered

Vucikonasinu Earthworks

Nausori corridor

A full bulk earthworks package for a 90-plus lot residential subdivision in the Suva–Nausori expansion corridor: site clearance, culvert removals, cut-to-fill, imported engineered fill, and platform formation for roads and residential lots. Both the civil execution and the material supply were delivered in-house.

46,606
m³ borrow to fill
90+
Lot subdivision served
Excavator at Naqali quarry
Agreements executed

Savudrodro Quarry

Vanua Levu · Northern Division

A basalt aggregate joint venture on Vanua Levu, held through Navuku Holdings, with the landowning clan's own company holding the mining licence and development lease and taking equity in the operating venture alongside a royalty stream. It would be the first organised crushing operation in the Northern Division.

5.28M
m³ assessed resource
20+ yr
Mine life
How we deliver

One pipeline,
one set of crews

Our projects are sequenced deliberately rather than run in parallel. The same civil crews, plant, and quarry supply move from one site to the next, so each project carries the one behind it and the margin stays inside the group.

  • 01
    Secure the landLandowner partnership, customary protocol, and the approvals that produce registered title.
  • 02
    Design and consentEngineering, scheme plan, and planning consent, with the landowning group inside the project company throughout.
  • 03
    Build it ourselvesBulk earthworks, roads, and drainage delivered by ECCC Civil & Quarries, supplied from the group's own aggregate.
  • 04
    Title and releaseLots titled and released in stages, with cut-and-fill moved between adjacent sites to cut cost on both.
Hand-built culvert headwall Taking possession of the Naqali quarry Keys to the ECCC fleet Service Street scheme plan
Our story

Built on a name,
and an obligation

Cabemaiwai is an Indigenous Fijian group working on Indigenous Fijian land. That is not a marketing position, it is the reason the work is possible at all.

Land held communally is protected by custom long before it is protected by statute. Nothing moves without the consent of the people who hold it, and consent is given to people who are known, not to the highest bidder. Our partnerships are built the way they have always been built here: in the village, through the chief, over years.

What we bring to that relationship is the other half: the surveys, the engineering, the planning consents, the finance, and the crews and plant to build it. The landowning group keeps its equity and its standing. The land goes to work.

Bure Kalou, Bau spirit house, circa 1849
Bure Kalou, the spirit house at Bau, circa 1849.
Who we work with

Relationships that make
the land possible

Traditional leadership

Formal partnership with Ratu Sanaila Mudunavosa, the Tui Suva, paramount chief of the people of the peninsula of Suva and one of Fiji's highest-ranking traditional chiefs, and direct agreements with the mataqali whose land each project sits on.

iTaukei Land Trust Board

Every lease, consent, and conversion runs through TLTB, the statutory administrator of Indigenous land in Fiji.

Fiji Roads Authority

Our civil arm holds current road contracts with the national roads authority, delivered under its full reporting, audit, and safety regime.

Fijian lenders

Development facilities and end-buyer finance arranged through domestic institutions familiar with Indigenous land structures.

Meeting with the Prime Minister of Fiji and landowners
Meeting with the Prime Minister of Fiji and landowning representatives.
Get in touch

Work with
Cabemaiwai

We work with landowning groups bringing land forward, buyers looking for serviced lots in the Suva corridor, contractors and clients for civil and aggregate work, and investment partners at project level. Project economics, financial models, and registered documents are available to qualified parties under NDA.

Email
[email protected]
Telephone
+61 449 228 380
Executive Director
Nicholas Qalilawa
Managing Director
Joshua Dakuwaqa Balenaivalu
Office
Suva–Nausori corridor, Fiji
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Indigenous Fijian owned · Suva, Fiji