– US buyers get residency, fork out over $12m for Waiheke lodge in gated estate<\/a><\/p>\nShe also recalled some of the property\u2019s glamorous history. When she was eight, the house hosted the Miss New Zealand contest, and provided a photo of the competitors dangling their legs in the pool while being serenaded by celebrated New Zealand guitarist Peter Posa, best known for his instrumental hit The White Rabbit.<\/p>\n
She also provided a picture of her glamorous mum Doreen, now in her 90s, reclining by the same pool wearing a splendid beehive hairdo. <\/p>\n
\u201cMum had done some modelling and was delighted to be asked to host a Miss NZ contest,\u201d Linda said in October. <\/p>\n
It was a nice day, and Linda remembered thinking how odd it was that none of the contestants went for a swim: \u201cOf course they didn\u2019t, because of the beehives.\u201d <\/p>\n
Her father had bought the land in the 1950s for 10,000 pounds before New Zealand had even adopted decimal currency. <\/p>\n
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The main house as it stands now. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Barry was a pioneer of New Zealand\u2019s building industry and went on to establish Beazley Homes (the jingle went Easily a Beazley Home), which he later sold to Fletcher Building. <\/p>\n
By the late 1960s, he was shipping his solid-rimu transportable homes nationwide, Linda said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBack in the day, he was New Zealand\u2019s biggest home builder, and he was erecting 300 houses a year and popping them off around the country, and the house that\u2019s on the property is the first Beazley home.\u201d <\/p>\n
Her mother helped with the interior design of the simple, three-bedroom, one-bathroom homes known for their hip roofs, homes that Linda says came to define the Kiwi dream of being affordable, enduring and practical. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time, they were low-cost, affordable housing for people post-war, but they\u2019ve got a little bit of an iconic status now. If someone says it\u2019s a Beazley home, it\u2019s always got a rimu floor.\u201d <\/p>\n
Her mother turned the surrounding dunes at Mt Maunganui into a lush, exotic garden that became a landmark in its own right \u2013 and it was Doreen who added what Linda told OneRoof was one of the Bay of Plenty\u2019s first resort-style pools. <\/p>\n
The \u201cvast\u201d kidney-shaped pool was 5m deep with a diving board, slide and a natural hot spring-fed spa. \u201cThe house and pool featured in magazines across New Zealand, even playing host to the Miss New Zealand contest.\u201d <\/p>\n
In 1973, when Beazley Homes was sold, the family moved to the Gold Coast, but the Mount remained their retreat, though their home was sold \u2013 almost \u2013 once before. <\/p>\n
A developer bought the property but went broke, and the block reverted to her parents, but not before the developer cut down a lot of the big trees and the pool was lost, Linda said. <\/p>\n
The decision to sell up was a hard one, Linda told OneRoof last year. \u201cIt is really sad. I would love to be able to just hold on to it, but it\u2019s got to a point where it needs some tender loving care \u2013 it needs someone to take it to the next level. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve held on for a long time with nothing in mind except we couldn\u2019t bear to let it go.\u201d <\/p>\n
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