Home-buyers keen to escape the rat-race for a more tranquil lifestyle are spoilt for choice with luxurious magazine-style properties with pools, ponds and space for a pony on the market.
High-end properties within 40 minutes of Auckland, but with fresh air, space and plenty of land, are up for grabs, and most prospective buyers are city dwellers.
The stunning properties in Matakana and Dairy Flat don't come cheap: expected sale prices are upward of $2 million, but some have ongoing income or landbanking potential.
One Matakana lakeside property features an outdoor bathhouse with twin claw-foot tubs, white Peking ducks beside a lotus lily-filled pond, and a lake-house often booked out for photo shoots and advertisements.
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The Instagram worthy outdoor area at Lotus Cottage in Matakana. Photo / Precision Real Estate
The bath-house at the Matakana property. Photo / Precision Real Estate
One Matakana lakeside property features an outdoor bathhouse with twin claw-foot tubs, white Peking ducks beside a lotus lily-filled pond, and a lake-house often booked out for photo shoots and advertisements.
Precision real estate agent Nicky White describes 147 Monarch Downs Way, set on a 9999m2 site, as an architectural beauty.
The picturesque home in Matakana features lotus-lilly filled pond. Photo / Precision Real Estate
Peking ducks lake-side at the Matakana resort style property. Photo / Precision Real Estate
The house also features a swimming pool, boardwalks, an orchard and olive grove.
The property, which has an asking price of $2,895,000, has income from "Lotus Cottage" a separate self-contained property listed on Airbnb.
>>> Go straight to the listing for 147 Monarch Downs Way
White is also marketing a luxury property in Dairy Flat's "future urban" zone with the potential of a big return in years to come.
The character property at 41 Postman Rd, Dairy Flat, with level land, mature trees and a five bedroom, three bathroom home has attracted film crews.
"You could be in Italy with the gorgeous gardens, pool and character house," said White.
The stunning property on Postman Road in Dairy Flat. Photo / Precision Real Estate
Horses at the stunning Dairy Flat property. Photo / Precision Real Estate
She said a wide variety of people, including plenty from Auckland, had viewed the property, seven minutes from Albany.
With council consent it could be subdivided into up to 25 sites when the zoning changes.
>>> Go straight to the listing for 41 Postman Road
A nearby 2.83ha property, at 250 Bawden Road, Dairy Flat, features an architecturally designed 1990s home in the industrial style, with a heated outdoor salt-water pool and established gardens.
With a current CV of $3.6m, the land is also earmarked "future urban" and could eventually be subdivided into 50 sections.
The architectural home by the pond is future urban and could potentially be subdivided into 50 sections. Photo / Wallace and Stratton
The industrial home features high ceilings, polished concrete and steel. Photo / Wallace and Stratton
The feature windows look out to the pond. Photo / Wallace and Stratton
"It is just stunning, and has a great entertaining area overlooking the pond and landscaped gardens," said real estate agent Ben Macky.
The home is close to a proposed town centre, on-ramp and park and ride.
>>> Go straight to the listing for 250 Bawden Road
OneRoof editor Owen Vaughan said despite overall listings in Auckland falling in the past quarter there had been a significant increase in luxury properties sales.
"Lifestyle homes are a large part of this market and it is encouraging to see a variety of quality homes for sale in the city."
- New Zealand Herald
