For Auckland buyers, school zones are one of the keys to house hunters searching the city. And the magic zone is Double Grammar – in zone for both Auckland Grammar (they don’t need to tell people it’s Boys) and Auckland Girls. Bonus is proximity to public transport.
So if you don’t want to live in a city apartment, what can you get for your grammar zone hunt?
Kelly Zhang of Barfoot & Thompson Mt Eden has a wee one bedroom town house on a block at the Esplanade Road end of Mount Eden Road for $428,000. There’s a tiny courtyard, undercover secure car park and easy access to public transport. The cafes and bars of Normanby Road are a block away, the grammar school just over 10 minutes’ walk.
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Or further around on the other side of Esplanade, Bevan Domett of Domett Real Estate is bringing a one bed unit upper floor unit in a block at 30 Bellevue Road to market. Asking $459,000, it was last on the market in 1991, so could do with an update, but the roof is new and there’s off street parking.
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Or for $445,000 Ray White Mt Eden agents Rick Mozessohn and Dion Kidd have another one bedder in a smaller block at 16 Belleview for $445,000. It’s had some of the smarten up – polished concrete floors, a tidy paint job on concrete block walls, mini kitchen – but the bathroom could be next. Covered parking, a $350/week tenant and a motivated vendor might help your negotiations.
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Or if one bedroom feels too tiny, how about 30?
Similar money would buy you a 30 bedroom nurses' home in Reefton. Gill Knight from Whittle Knight & Boatwood has the 1940s accommodation block for sale for $495,000.
It’s been run as a business as tourism grows in the pretty mining town on the edge of West Coast bush (the Old Ghost Rd mountain trail, hunting, fly fishing, bush walking, there’s a ton of potential).
It’s been tidied up with six large bathrooms, central heating, two good kitchens and a commercial laundry, with a dining room, lounge, barbecue courtyard and conference room for guests, a self-contained unit for you.
>>> Find out more about the listing here.
