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Kiwi rugby legend, the late Jonah Lomu’s former Maupuia mansion was the most viewed property on Trade Me last year, with 196,000 views.
The five bedroom Mediterranean style house on the hill with expansive views of Wellington city and harbor, featured in Stuff in February, and is still up for sale by negotiation. For most of the past year, offers for more than $ 3 million were invited. The home has a $ 2,430,000 RV.
Lomu bought the house for just over $ 1 million in late 1999, when he was just 25 years old. He sold the property in late 2003, shortly before he underwent a successful kidney transplant. At that time he was living with his second wife Fiona, whom he married in 2003.
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The late Jonah Lomu owned this Maupuia mansion for four years. It was Trade Me’s most viewed property in 2020, with 190,000 views.
The current owners have lived in the house for 16 years after buying from a union that owned the property for a short time in 2004. Now they are downsizing and say they will be sad to leave
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* New Zealand’s ‘Most Photogenic Church’ is for sale
Trade Me’s second-most-viewed property for 2020 was a luxurious downtown mansion in Wellington’s suburb of Thorndon, which recorded 150,000 views. The 742-square-foot home, on Hobson Street, has a stunning asking price of more than $ 6.5 million and is still on the market, too.
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This stunning 720 square meter home in Thorndon is Trade Me’s second most viewed property in 2020, with 150,000 views. It has a starting price of more than $ 6.5 million.
The property, which appeared in Stuff in October, it sits on five titles on 2365 square meters and comes with a sixth title: a 454-square-meter contiguous site with commercial zoning. It is anticipated that it could set a record price for a detached house in Wellington.
Another Wellington mansion took third place with 148,000 views. The five-story platform in Brooklyn, owned by former journalist and politician Vadim Boyko, has a starting price of nearly $ 4 million and has an entire floor dedicated to an indoor pool.
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The Cascade House, a mansion that appears to cascade down the Brooklyn slope, was the third most viewed property, with 148,000 views.
It took Boyko more than seven years to make his dream home come true, with a large part of it spent grazing resources and building permits.
A bird’s-eye view of the property makes it clear why.
Cascading down a steep hillside covered in brush in Brooklyn, the 950-square-foot home is the architectural equivalent of a waterfall. Spread over five semi-detached floors, it also has one of the best views of the city belt and the suburbs.
The house, described by the property agent as a “palatial private residence”, is still for sale.
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Atop a hill on the Awhitu Peninsula is the former Kohekohe Presbyterian Church, referred to by the Auckland Council as “New Zealand’s most photogenic church.” This was Trade Me’s fourth most viewed property.
Fourth on Trade Me’s most viewed list was a 125-year-old church located on Franklin’s Awhitu Peninsula, which had 117,771 visits.
Trade’s MIllie Silvester tells me: “The little church is surrounded by incredible natural scenery and overlooks the Tasman Sea – no wonder it has been dubbed the most photogenic church in the country.”
Today, the former Kohekohe Presbyterian Church is visited more frequently by photographers. The Auckland Council Historic Heritage Assessment refers to it as “New Zealand’s most photogenic church”.
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This cute cabin on Mt Eden attracted a lot of attention with its bold color palette.
A small cabin in the middle of Mount Eden was the fifth with 78,059 views. The festive-looking green house with bright red windows has only one bedroom and one bathroom, and is only 51 square meters.
It also made the cut in 2020 Owlcatraz, the native bird and wildlife park in sunny Horowhenua, which was sixth with 74,300 views. “The 6.67ha property included a four-bedroom house, its own lake and a glowworm cave,” says Silvester. “We estimate that thousands of kiwis who visited Owlcatraz during the 23 years it was open will have jumped in to remember and take a look at the wildlife park.”
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The Owlcatraz Native Bird and Wildlife Park in Horowhenua was also a favorite.
Arnold, Wellington’s air traffic control tower ranked seventh on the list with 68,444 visits. Arnold was bought by Wellington Airport. The sale price was not disclosed, but the sale price was $ 895,000 and Stuff understand that the airport paid about $ 1.2 million.
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Wellington Airport bought the old control tower known as “Arnold”. The list attracted great interest.
And eighth on the list was the fabulous Italian Omokoroa estate known as the Ataahua Estate. This had 67,800 visits.
The property is owned by chief financial software Andrew Holliday and his wife Frances, who had been living between Australia and New Zealand before the level four lockdown halted travel.
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This ivy-covered Italian-style mansion in Omokoroa is for sale by negotiation. The current owners, Andrew and Frances Holliday, have renovated the property and are now looking for a new challenge.
“The blocking gave us a chance to reflect and we are going to slow down,” Holliday said. Stuff. “I am leaving my international travels and, from now on, we will stay in the country.”
This property is also for sale.
Silvester says it’s not surprising that mansions top the list: “Kiwis love to dream and every year we see thousands of visits at some of the most expensive properties for sale in the country.”
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There is a strong international flavor to this impressive Omokoroa property renovated by the owner of a financial software company.
