– Golden visa opens door to multi-million-dollar ‘castle in the clouds’<\/a><\/p>\nHunt said his grandmother was now living in a retirement village, but the family still wanted the development to be a place where his grandparents would have been happy to live.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were thinking about how we would want the subdivision to look if we were wanting to live there,\u201d Hunt told OneRoof.<\/p>\n
“My nana walks every day \u2013 so she could have got a coffee, gone out for lunch and also come back and not feel like she had a neighbour right next door to her. I guess for those people who come off farms, it\u2019s hard to go from having all that land around you to nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The slightly larger 711-899sqm sections speak to the fact that buyers didn\u2019t want to be hemmed in, and there are specific covenants in place to ensure all the homes have good street appeal and are of a high quality.<\/p>\n
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Sir Patrick and his wife, Lady Hogan, bought the large landholding outside Cambridge in 2021. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to ensure all the houses around were nice, bespoke and architecturally designed,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n
St Kilda\u2019s, another lifestyle subdivision on the outskirts of Cambridge, has been extremely popular with homeowners, and the aim, Hunt said, was to create a similar subdivision closer to Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Of the 32 lots in the subdivision, eight are already under contract, and 24 are being listed for sale on Friday, with prices starting at $620,000. In a nod to the renowned breeder, the streets are named after his prized thoroughbred stallions, Sir Tristram and Tavistock.<\/p>\n
Anyone wanting to build in Sun Estate must have their plans signed off by a design committee. The rules state that no home in the subdivision can be the same; that they must be architecturally designed; and that they must be a single standalone home of at least 180sqm size and use certain cladding materials and fencing. The extensive covenants also specify that recreational vehicles parked on the property must be screened and that residents are only allowed two domestic pets.<\/p>\n
Lodge agent Kane Jacobson, who is marketing the sections with Cambridge Real Estate agent Paulette Bell, said the sections were larger than most of the other ones currently on the market for sale in the town.<\/p>\n
The feedback so far had been positive because people wanted something different from the standard \u201ccookie-cutter\u201d home in a cookie-cutter subdivision.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want the same house, just a different colour and a different brick, right next to you,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a point of difference. You want to step outside your front door and have something just as beautiful as your home next to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The subdivision isn\u2019t the only one in Cambridge with a horse-riding pedigree. Cambridge locals Tony and Vicki Rider, who operate a thoroughbred nursery and equestrian facility, are planning to create a new residential community on their land.<\/p>\n
The proposed residential development comprises 98.6ha of land at the Milan Park Stud site, between Maungatautari Road and Wordsworth Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we get the green light to proceed, the first stage would provide housing for around 35-40 families,\u201d Tony said in a press release. \u201cWe are committed to staging the development in a sustainable manner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"– Sir Patrick Hogan\u2019s plan for a medical hub and unique residential subdivision in Cambridge is proceeding. –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1258,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-349480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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