– Takapuna has seen significant property sales, with five high-end homes sold for around $50 million.
– Andrew Dorreen listed a beachfront home expected to break Takapuna’s price record, aiming for over $15 million.
– Jason Bonham renovated a four-bedroom home on Rarere Road, enhancing its design and features.
Auckland’s Takapuna is making the most of the winter sun, enjoying a run of big sales and big listings in recent weeks.
On the deals front, Precision Real Estate agent Andrew Dorreen has just sold five high-end homes for a total of around $50 million and listed another he believes will break the price record for beachfront property in the suburb.
Among the deals Dorreen has closed in the last four weeks is Seacliffe Avenue, which records show is the luxury waterfront home of Breakers owner Marc Mitchell (Doreen, however, has declined to comment on the identity of his clients).
Takapuna agent Andrew Dorreen believes his new listing, 26 Blomfield Spa, will break price records on the beach. Photo / Supplied
Dorreen is also selling a Takapuna lakefront compound at 23-27 Lake View Road. Photo / Supplied
Mitchell paid $8.25m two years ago for the architecturally designed five-bedroom home, which comes with a pool, a games room, a chef’s kitchen, and sits on a 2000sqm-plus site.
While Dorreen could not comment on individual sales, he said he sold three waterfront properties for over $10m and another two for circa $8m.
He said his recent listing at 26 Blomfield Spa would set a record on Takapuna Beach when it sells, describing it as one of the suburb’s best homes.
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The five-bedroom home, which was designed by award-winning architects Sumich Chaplin and built by Lindesay Construction, has an RV of $9.75m but will be eyeing a buyer with more than $15m to spend.
The current record was set by tech entrepreneur Guy Haddleton’s Park Avenue French-style mansion, which sold late last year for $15.7m.
“This is one of the best homes on the beach you could buy,” Dorreen said, describing it as “absolute perfection” in his listing.
Dorreen also expects to set a lakefront record for nearby 23-27 Lake View Road, a 622sqm Daniel Marshall-designed property on nearly 3200sqm of land overlooking Lake Pupuke. The trophy home comes with seven bedrooms, a 25m swimming pool, a tennis court, a gym, and a pontoon, and has an RV of $16.25m.
Listed with Andrew and Ollie Wall of Wall Real Estate is the stunning 7 Rarere Road, in Takapuna. Photo / Supplied
Dorreen has also just listed a five-bedroom property at neighbouring 15 Lake View Road, which he sold only last year for $10m. It sits on over 1200sqm of land, and comes with a media room, a pool, and a private jetty.
Also making waves at the top end of the market is a stunning beach pad given a makeover by award-winning designer and former Block NZ judge Jason Bonham.
7 Rarere Road is listed with Ollie and Andrew Wall of Wall Real Estate and has an RV of $14.4m. Ollie told OneRoof reporter Catherine Smith that the property was one of the city’s finest. “Jason’s renovation is international. Everything is sourced from the other side of the world or bespoke,” he said.
“You can open the gates from the boat shed, James Bond-style, and drive straight on to the beach. You can take a glass lift from the boat store all the way up to the master bedroom. No one else can do that, not in Herne Bay, not in the Eastern suburbs.”
Former Block judge Jason Bonham gave the Rarere Road home a full makeover. Photo / Supplied
The four-bedroom home on 7 Rarere Avenue, Takapuna, made headlines when it sold for more than $12.25 million in 2020, a record price for the suburb that year.
The new owners immediately called Bonham to reconfigure the house.
Bonham told OneRoof that the renovation took two years and “redefined the interior as a globally inspired, design-forward retreat”.
Bonham ripped out the original staircase, which blocked views of the water, removed the heavy timber ceiling panels, replaced the floors with a custom-detailed stone, gutted the kitchens and bathrooms, and reworked the floor plan to add an extra bedroom.
“The clients wanted a unique home with interesting materials and textures. The use of patterns, shapes, and international-level furniture and art is not usually seen in New Zealand,” Bonham told Smith.
“The project was a joy to work on…the clients love good design and understood what it took.”
Premium agent Robert Milne, who got $7.1m for Takapuna’s iconic Boat Sheds home in January this year, told OneRoof that Kiwis expats based in the UK, US, and Hong Kong were showing interest in the suburb’s waterfront homes. Budgets, he said, ranged from $5m to $15m.