{"id":535817,"date":"2026-07-20T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:08:16","slug":"completely-separate-issues-wild-poppies-founders-coastal-homes-face-mortgagee-sale-all-things-property-under-oneroof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535817\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely separate issues\u2019: Wild Poppies founder&#8217;s coastal homes face mortgagee sale, All things property, under OneRoof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Kerry Bradburn\u2019s coastal homes will be sold at a mortgagee auction next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bradburn\u2019s financial issues surfaced when Wild Poppies collapsed, owing creditors over $1.3m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; She sold the company to her son before liquidation; creditors are angry about the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The multimillion-dollar coastal homes of Kerry Bradburn, the former owner of under-fire online florist Wild Poppies, will be sold at a mortgagee auction next month.<\/p>\n<p>Bradburn\u2019s financial issues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/retail\/wild-poppies-creditors-angry-over-florists-sale-to-directors-son-before-liquidation\/premium\/ER4BYGJGFFACHEA7MTVTUSNWXY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">came to light earlier this year<\/a> when Wild Poppies collapsed owing creditors more than $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Bradburn came under fire after selling the company to her son the day before the liquidators stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>She told OneRoof that the collapse of Wild Poppies had \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the mortgagee sale of her three-bedroom house at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/auckland\/manly\/63-tiri-road\/LfnWL?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">63 Tiri Road, on  Auckland<\/a>\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/auckland\/manly\/63-tiri-road\/LfnWL?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">s Whangaparaoa Peninsula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Wild Poppies owner Kerry Bradburn says the collapse of her business has \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the mortgagee sales. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4faf1c853953a73a353cf02db2d4c807.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">A clifftop home on Tiri Road in Manly, Rodney, is one of two properties linked to Bradburn that is going to mortgagee auction next month. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Wild Poppies owner Kerry Bradburn says the collapse of her business has \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the mortgagee sales. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1cb35e91e11a7f9e1411673cd53c4ade.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home on Tiri Road, in Manly, was completed in 2016. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are completely separate issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Bradburn property, a half-finished build at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/auckland\/stanmore-bay\/19a-duncansby-road\/JfKe2?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">19A Duncansby Road, in Stanmore Bay<\/a>, will join it on the auction block on August 6. A third property also owned by the businesswoman \u2013 a house on Stanmore Bay Road &#8211; was sold at a mortgagee auction earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>63 Tiri Road has been on and off the market since 2021, and initially had a price tag of $3.25m.<\/p>\n<p>Bradburn said that the property had suffered a slip during Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023, and even though the cliff had been fully remediated, finding a buyer had been difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are very cagey about clifftop properties even though it\u2019s fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/unconsented-school-linked-to-failed-property-flipper-sells-at-mortgagee-auction-49837?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Private \u2018school\u2019 linked to failed influencer sells for $700,000 &#8211; almost $300k below RV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/49840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; How a silver and gold coin worth $10 cost one Canterbury family their home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/49830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Richie McCaw house sale price revealed as agents weigh in on celeb homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said two unconditional deals for the property, including one for $2.5m, had fallen over. \u201cThat\u2019s at the core of my problem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>If she had been able to sell 63 Tiri Road, she would have had the funds to finish the Duncansby Road build and avoid the mortgagee sales, she said, adding that all three properties were tied to the same lender.<\/p>\n<p>She explained the unfinished Duncansby Road house had already cost her $1.7m in construction costs, plus $850,000 for the land.<\/p>\n<p>63 Tiri Road and 19A Duncansby Road are being sold by Ray White agents Cherry Killgour and Marama Curness, and have a combined RV of $3.85m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Wild Poppies owner Kerry Bradburn says the collapse of her business has \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the mortgagee sales. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c7b87b95889c598968e11b295f978de3.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" class=\"clicked\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">The two-bedroom, two-bathroom property on Duncansby Road, in Stanmore Bay, is being sold as an unfinished project. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Wild Poppies owner Kerry Bradburn says the collapse of her business has \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the mortgagee sales. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/746a956106ace49227cc8c57f0dbcbb5.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">A two-bedroom cross-lease property on Stanmore Bay Road sold for $565,000 in a mortgagee auction last week. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Killgour declined to comment on the properties, but her listings described them as having \u201csweeping coastal views\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While the Tiri Road home is move-in ready, having been completed in 2016, 19A Duncansby Road is being sold as a \u201ccoastal project\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a substantial portion of the construction already completed, the foundations are in place to complete this striking contemporary residence of scale and sophistication,\u201d the listing on OneRoof said.<\/p>\n<p>The property appears to have a finished pool and bathrooms but no sign of a kitchen. It is being pitched as an \u201cexciting opportunity for builders, developers or visionary buyers\u201d to complete in a \u201chighly sought-after setting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bradburn\u2019s two-bedroom Stanmore Bay home fetched $565,000 at auction, well below the $745,000 it last changed hands for in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Poppies is still operating as a business because it was sold to Weyland Group the same day the liquidators stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Herald reported that the creditors were angry about the turn of events because Weyland was set up by Bradburn\u2019s son, Cole Bradburn, the week before the sale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/auckland\/manly\/63-tiri-road\/KIBn5?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">63 Tiri Road, in Manly, Auckland,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/auckland\/stanmore-bay\/19a-duncansby-road\/JfKe2?from=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">19A Duncansby Road, in Stanmore Bay,<\/a> are going to auction on August 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8211; Kerry Bradburn\u2019s coastal homes will be sold at a mortgagee auction next month. &#8211; Bradburn\u2019s financial issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,1258,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-535817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-latest-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535817","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=535817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}