Our guide to the top properties on the market.
14 Haratua Place, Springfield, Rotorua
This remarkable and very substantial home was built in the 1980s, to a truly timeless plan sourced from the USA, where "big is best", and generous layouts are a regular thing. Based on early 20th Century Tudor revival dwellings, it features four generous bedrooms, two bathrooms, an office, and a whole lot of period-style charm, along with modern amenities. All of this is set amidst on a large, leafy section with extensive decking for year-around entertaining. While your brick and weatherboard home is a glorious retreat, you’re actually not far from the CBD, with its shops and cafes.
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103 Ward Road, Hamurana, Rotorua
Stylishly effective, rounded joinery in the kitchen sets the scene for an appealing, versatile and well-laid-out property with many unique features on 17410sq m at Hamurana - around 20 minutes’ drive from Rotorua. Recently renovated and rejuvenated, the substantial home boasts four bedrooms, three bathrooms and loads of living space. Beautifully landscaped, quiet and private with glorious lake views, it enjoys easy proximity to a new lake-front boardwalk and swimming beach. If you’re a fishing fan you’ll be right in luck here with plenty of freshwater fish life and with a four-car garage, there’s plenty of room for the boat.
9 Leslie Avenue, Rotorua
Small, but perfectly formed and renovated to a very high standard with lots of contemporary elements, this solid 1960s, open-plan, young family’s dream home will be a magnet to your friends and relatives. On an easy-care, 562sq m section it offers three good-sized bedrooms, a fabulous modern bathroom and kitchen, and generous decking for entertaining. Fully-fenced, it’s child and pet friendly, with an electric gate and CCTV. Located close to schools, shops and public transport, with the added bonus of a community park next door, this listing probably won’t last long, so it’s worthy of an urgent look!
50 Albero Drive, Ohauiti, Tauranga
If you’re looking for style and modern appeal, do inspect this fantastic residence in friendly Ohauiti. Built to a contemporary design with four bedrooms and two bathrooms, there’s lots of room for entertaining. Much of this space is centred round the spectacular central designer kitchen and adjoining scullery, so guests can move seamlessly from there to the relaxing areas outside. A separate formal lounge, apart from the generous family living spaces offers parents an escape from their offspring occasionally.
68A Paine Street, Tauranga
This Art Deco home, on a compact section in central Tauranga has been lovingly nurtured and recently recreated. It consists of two levels with two bedrooms on the top floor and another two, comprising a granny (or teenage) flat at the basement level. The polished wooden floorboards, stucco cladding, and classic, timeless décor combined with a wonderful, very workable kitchen, add to this property’s enormous appeal. In fact, it all adds up to a surprisingly generous floor area for its era. The section is small, but sunny, and you’ll be nice and close to public transport.
19 Stamford Place, Western Bay of Plenty
This is the kind of house that keeps you in holiday mode all-year-round with its crisp, clean, nautical-inspired décor and lots of subtropical colour and bird life in the garden plus extensive decking. While most of the living is relaxed and open plan there’s a separate formal lounge for entertaining in style or simply getting away from it all. This modern house is well-built and well-maintained, situated in a quiet cul-de-sac in a sought after part of town. While this is a private wonderland, it’s also close to the main routes into Tauranga CBD and Mount Maunganui.
