Country Lifestyle Retreat - Build Your Dream Home

This property is an ideal spiritual lifestyle and rural retreat offering privacy, multiple building site options to create a dream home. The four tracts of virgin native bush with an additional area currently regenerating over the past 30 years. Some of the trees are ancient giants and there are many species of native orchids and other epiphytes and rare plants. There are springs on the property providing fresh water. The property is offered for sale for the first time since the latter 1800s. The land is able to be sub-divided in accordance with provisions in the Whangarei District Plan. Current use in part is as a cattle run, so there are sub-letting options as well, allowing use of or generation from income from existing pastures. The current district plan allows the creation of two, 20h blocks. The current owner's interests are in selling the property with the current capacity to subdivide in accordance with a new owner's wishes. The current house was built in 1922-23 of locally-sourced pit-sawn timber ­ Kauri, Totara. It has been insulated and renovated in the past but needs renovating, upgrading and extending.
In light of recent storms, the access road also needs upgrading. Internet and landline is available. The new owner would be provided with a complete history of the property since it has never been outside of the family of the current owners and has much associated pre-European and colonial history. Viewing is strictly by appointment only. Suitable clothing and footwear is required to visit the bush areas of the property. A good level of fitness is required also as parts of the property are rugged and steep.