{"id":353186,"date":"2026-03-29T04:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353186\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:39:12","slug":"south-aucklands-worst-do-up-stuns-at-auction-selling-230k-over-reserve-all-things-property-under-oneroof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353186\/","title":{"rendered":"South Auckland\u2019s \u2018worst do-up\u2019 stuns at auction, selling $230k over reserve, All things property, under OneRoof"},"content":{"rendered":"

– A run-down South Auckland home sold for $630,500, exceeding its $400,000 reserve at auction.<\/p>\n

– The auction featured 70 properties, with 56 selling for a total of $34.2m.<\/p>\n

– The Darnell Crescent house, needing significant work, attracted strong interest from investors and traders.<\/p>\n

A crazy day in the auction room saw a run-down home in South Auckland fly past its reserve of $400,000 to hit $630,500, delighting the owner who was selling because she could not afford the renovations needed after tenants neglected the property. <\/p>\n

The four-bedroom home on Darnell Crescent, in Clover Park, needed serious work and was being sold with a low reserve at Ray White\u2019s Game Day South mega auction this week.<\/p>\n

About 70 other properties were up for grabs at Wednesday\u2019s event at Ray White Manukau, with 56 selling under the hammer for a total of $34.2 million.<\/p>\n

Listing agent Liam Brothers, who was marketing the property with his father Charlie, said the event was a success, achieving a clearance rate of 70%. There were 278 bidders in the room on the day, and a total of 1059 bids placed.<\/p>\n

Charlie Brothers had told OneRoof before the auction<\/a> that the Darnell Crescent house was the worst do-up he had seen in 15 years of selling real estate in South Auckland.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

A family with experience in flipping houses snapped up the Darnell Crescent property. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The house had been with the same family for 38 years and needed \u201cserious work\u201d. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The elderly vendor had owned the property for 38 years but had rented it out, and she told OneRoof she wanted her situation to serve as a cautionary tale to others, as her tenants had left her with a \u201cbig mess\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to sell the house because I can\u2019t afford to renovate,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The woman had been excited when she bought the house in 1988 for $78,000 as her first family home. <\/p>\n

Charlie Brothers told OneRoof it cost $2500 to clear out the rubbish. \u201cThere was rubbish everywhere. The outside had to be cleared first before we could do anything. That\u2019s just the outside. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is one of the worst do-ups that we\u2019ve seen \u2013 I\u2019ve seen a lot. After 15 years, I\u2019ve seen them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the RV on the house was $740,000, Liam Brothers said the agents had appraised the property at $550,000 but at the start of the marketing campaign much lower offers of around $400,000 were being made. <\/p>\n

Only a few potential buyers had gone through until the low reserve was set, which kick-started interest. Around 20 groups went through the weekend before the auction, with others returning on Monday and Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The renewed momentum had been ridiculously strong, Liam said, adding that a lot of the $400,000 buyers had come back only to bid higher in the competitive auction environment. <\/p>\n

Liam said he was blown away by the results and said the nervous vendor had been \u201creally happy\u201d with the outcome. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Some 278 bidders registered for Wednesday\u2019s Game Day auction event at Ray White Manukau\u2019s head office. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

A deceased estate on McInnes Road, in Weymouth, fetched almost $900,000 at the auction. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The auction moved quickly, with multiple parties making bids in $5000 and $10,000 increments, and then cutting down to $1000 before the hammer came down. <\/p>\n

Many of those who showed interest were investors and traders, and the buyers were a family with experience in flipping houses, Liam said. <\/p>\n

In another strong result, a deceased estate on McInnes Road, in Weymouth, sold after intense bidding, this time with developers winning.<\/p>\n

The three-bedroom home on an 809sqm freehold section with room for eight cars sold almost at its $900,000 RV. The reserve had been set at $730,000, with the bidding starting at $700,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went on the market at $760,000 \u2013 it was $1000 bids from $800,000, all the way to $895,000,\u201d Liam said. <\/p>\n

– Click here to find more properties for sale in Auckland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"– A run-down South Auckland home sold for $630,500, exceeding its $400,000 reserve at auction. – The auction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1258,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-353186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-latest-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353186","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=353186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}