- Sir Peter Blake’s former home on Auckland’s North Shore has sold after an unconditional offer.
- Bayleys agent Linda Simmons said the buyers fell in love with the unique property.
- The house, with a CV of $4.525 million, last sold in October 2020 for $4.355m.
Sir Peter Blake’s former home has sold, OneRoof can reveal.
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Bayleys agent Linda Simmons told OneRoof that the buyers made an unconditional offer two days after seeing the late sailing legend’s house on Auckland’s North Shore.
“They just fell in love with it. They had been looking for a while for North Shore waterfront, but didn’t have Bayswater in their search,” she said.
“The husband called me on the Tuesday morning, saw it in the afternoon, then the wife came through on Wednesday. So two days after the call, it was sold."
Simmons declined to disclose the sale price, but said the buyers’ offer pulled the tender date forward by two weeks, beating other interested parties who were still doing their due diligence.
“It’s a unique and special home, and we’d been targeting our advertising to a very specific audience – expats watching New Zealand real estate, people looking for waterfront, yacht owners, high net worth individuals. We didn’t have open homes. There were no sightseers, just qualified enquiries, in the right price zone.
“It’s a very specific property with a huge garden, we even vetted that they loved gardens.”
The four-bedroom Arts and Crafts home was remodelled by architects Fearon Hay. Photo / Supplied
The property is nestled in lush grounds and boasts clear views of the harbour. Photo / Supplied
Simmons said while the buyers had looked at other waterfront places, most did not have the privacy of the Norwood Road house, which sits on a lush 2540sqm site overlooking the harbour and leading down to its own private beach.
“It was literally love at first sight. It will be the forever home for this young family.”
The property had a CV of $4.85 million and OneRoof records show it last changed hands in October 2020 for $4.355m.
Sir Peter and his wife Pippa, Lady Blake, owned the 1920s Arts and Crafts home in the 1990s, selling it in 2000 for $1.5m.
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Reporting at the time listed the house as belonging to Auckland lawyer Richard Green, the chairman of the charitable trust that owned Team New Zealand.
Sir Peter, who led Team New Zealand to victory in the America’s Cup in 1995 and 2000, had quit the home to move to the UK for a job leading the Cousteau Society. He was killed by pirates while on an environmental trip in South America in 2001.
The vendors described the house as a “sanctuary”, and having a “special energy” and an “ever-changing view”.
“You do feel sort of cocooned in it, but then it’s also a blast to entertain in,” one of the owners said in a marketing video for the property.
“There’s something about this green capsule. You can just relax and feel your energy recharging. It’s a house that you really live in. It’s a place that has been very hard for people to let go of.”
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