{"id":5205,"date":"2025-09-06T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:12:09","slug":"developer-spares-award-winning-trophy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5205\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer spares award-winning trophy home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; An award-winning home in Halswell, Christchurch is expected to remain while dozens of new homes are built around it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The 3.37ha site attracted strong interest from builders and developers, with plans for about 50 sites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bayleys agent Chris Jones said the main drawcard was that it was \u201cready to go\u201d for development.<\/p>\n<p>An award-winning trophy home has been snapped up by a developer who plans to spare it from demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Start your property search<\/p>\n<p>Find your dream home today.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-orange w-full mt-10 md:mt-0 !text-white !no-underline md:!w-100\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/search\/houses-for-sale\/region_all-new-zealand-1_page_1?utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=news_article&amp;utm_campaign=in_article_search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four-bedroom house on Quaifes Road, in Halswell, Christchurch, sits in the middle of a flat 3.37ha block of land zoned for development.<\/p>\n<p>The large cedar-clad home was built a decade ago when the area was semi-rural and there were no real neighbours to speak of. However, it is now surrounded by hundreds of smaller homes in one of New Zealand\u2019s fastest-growing suburbs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A striking cedar-clad home on Quaifes Road, in Halswell, Christchurch, has been snapped up by a developer. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0510312e399e263ea1110879303de3fc.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The buyer reportedly plans to build around the trophy home, which sits on a 3.37ha block. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Bayleys listing agent Chris Jones told OneRoof: \u201cThe general consensus was that the house was far too good to remove. I expect it will stay based on the feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The property attracted buyer interest from around the country. Jones said he received multiple offers, but the winning bid came from a local developer\/builder.<\/p>\n<p>Discover more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/47999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Bargain on billionaire&#8217;s row? House next to ZURU Toys mansion for sale for first time in 90 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/48003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Local family beats overseas buyers with quick purchase of multi-million-dollar estate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/48022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Media couple&#8217;s unbelievable renovation bill &#8211; &#8216;the staircase cost nearly half a million&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones expected houses would start appearing on the site in the short to medium-term.<\/p>\n<p>While Jones was unable to reveal the exact details of sale, he previously indicated that the vendors were looking for offers above the RV of $5.3m.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the big drawcard for the Quaifes Road site was that it was a \u201cready to go\u201d development, adding that there was strong demand for these types of properties.<\/p>\n<p>Jones previously told OneRoof that the newer parts of Halswell were particularly popular with second-home buyers and out-of-towners with budgets of between $900,000 and $1.1m. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people who come to Christchurch from outside do love Halswell because it\u2019s brand-new stock and it\u2019s close to town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/search\/houses-for-sale\/region_canterbury-45_page_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Click here to find more properties for sale in Canterbury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8211; An award-winning home in Halswell, Christchurch is expected to remain while dozens of new homes are built&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1258,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-5205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}