If you have to ask, you probably can’t afford it. But we’ll tell you anyway: New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty has priced a property at 10 Jackson Cres, Mahurangi for a confident $14.75 million.
Agents Prudence Foster and Athena Wang say that the house, on nearly 5.7 hectares (14 acres) has the widest views overlooking Martins Bay, to the Hauraki Gulf.
The owners and architects have combined striking cedar, schist and concrete building with dreamy interior design including a striking circular sofa and merino silk carpets in the home theatre room, hotel-glittery mosaic tiles in the bathroom, a curving library and piano room, a wine cellar below the dining room and a master bedroom with its own atrium garden (and, naturally, more of the gob-smacking views).
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The property has been landscaped to a T, including courtyard pools, an internal heated 20 metre swimming pool and gym, plus its own organic gardens and orchards. Room for the luxury cars – or even a helicopter. This is the dream come true.
Its asking price is topped by Sotheby’s International Realty's Australian arm, which is selling a mansion on Elizabeth Bay Road for AU$50 million ($52.33 million) or a country property by the coast in Albany, Western Australia for AU$20 million ($20.9 million).
If you’ve got $22.5 million to spare, give NZ Sotheby’s International Realty agents Alex Choma and Ian Keightley a call. They’re marketing Westhaven Retreat on Te Hapu Road, overlooking Tasman Bay on one side, the Whanganui Inlet the other, right next to the Kahurangi National Park at the tip of the South Island.
The bush, nikau and limestone rock formations will take your breath away – many of the palms are over 100 years ago. There are 12 kilometres of tracks, peaks to climb, beaches to swim in over the nearly 330 hectares. The properties has farming possibilities, but it’s the over 2700 sq m of lodge that will have you thinking luxury business opportunities.
The owners were thinking low carbon, using teak, oak and schist to craft the five premium and two luxury suites. As well as living areas, there is an exercise floor, a 24 metre indoor swimming pool…and endless luxury details.
Or if you’re up for a challenge – let’s say this property has potential – NZ Sotheby’s International Realty Auckland agent Ross Hawkins would be pleased to whizz you across to Pakatoa Island.
The former jewel in Auckland’s hospitality world (from the 1960s to the 1980s, that is) the island still has the super white sand beaches, a handy wharf for the jaunt from the city (and a place to land the helicopter), a pool and there’s even a chip-and-putt golf course.
The accommodation (there are 24 units, 38 two and three bedroom cottages, a conference centre and staff facilities) has seen better days, but there is resource consent to re-develop a mix of residential lots and a tourism complex. Chip in a few million on top of the $40 million asking, and this could be the city’s dream resort.
