{"id":543982,"date":"2026-07-25T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/543982\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:18:12","slug":"they-can-just-move-in-home-staging-queen-sells-her-chic-remuera-house-in-less-than-a-week-all-things-property-under-oneroof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/543982\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They can just move in\u2019: Home staging queen sells her chic Remuera house in less than a week, All things property, under OneRoof"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Designer Dinah Malyon has sold her Remuera townhouse, with buyers also purchasing some of her furniture.<\/p>\n

– The sale was completed in five days, facilitated by Pene Milne from New Zealand Sotheby\u2019s International Realty.<\/p>\n

– Malyon, founder of DMI Home Staging, has criticised the current state of the home staging industry.<\/p>\n

New Zealand\u2019s home staging queen has sold her stylish Auckland townhouse \u2013 and the buyers also made an offer on her furniture.<\/p>\n

Dinah Malyon<\/a>, who made her name with DMI Home Staging, told OneRoof that the couple sealed the deal less than a week after first viewing the three-bedroom Remuera townhouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came through twice. They\u2019d already sold their place, so it just took five days to become unconditional,\u201d Malyon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have got a pretty good eye; they do not have to do anything. They can just move in; it is so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Included in the sale deal were some of her stylish furniture pieces \u2013 though not everything as Malyon initially hoped.<\/p>\n

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Dinah Malyon and her daughter Philly at DMI Home Staging\u2019s warehouse in 2019. \u201cI\u2019ve been undercut by people who are buying s*** furniture.\u201d Photo \/ Ted Baghurst<\/p>\n

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Malyon included some of her furniture in the sale. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

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Malyon installed a completely new kitchen with marble benches and mosaic tile. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The design expert said she was selling off the rest of her collection (or giving it away to her children), although she intends to keep some special pieces for the new family bach she is building in Taup\u014d. <\/p>\n

Malyon admitted she was \u201cterrified about moving\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a good place to live,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought it would be my long-term home, but the years we\u2019ve been there, I think we\u2019ve done quite well considering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The property on Joseph Banks Terrace hit the market at the start of the year with New Zealand Sotheby\u2019s International Realty agent Pene Milne.<\/p>\n

Discover more: <\/p>\n

– Shrek director Andrew Adamson quietly selling his $11m Grey Lynn pad <\/a><\/p>\n

– Inside the new mansion TV star Paul Henry and wife Diane Foreman bought for almost $10m <\/a><\/p>\n

– Middle Eastern owners selling their Parnell palace after quitting NZ for good <\/a><\/p>\n

Milne told OneRoof that there had been a lot of interest over the campaign, but much of it was conditional. \u201cA lot of buyers had to sell their homes first, and that affects trading across the board,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Milne could not disclose the sale price, but the property had been listed with an asking price of $3.295 million.<\/p>\n

When Malyon bought the townhouse, she quickly updated it, landscaping the courtyard garden, expanding a bathroom, redoing the kitchen with marble and putting in new flooring and lighting.<\/p>\n

Malyon no longer owns DMI Home Staging, which she founded in the 1990s, but she still does the odd commission. Back in January, she was blunt about the state of home staging today, particularly at the lower end of the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such a cutthroat business now. Those others are undercutting everyone \u2013 the people with the good furniture that helps sell the properties. I\u2019ve been undercut by people who are buying s*** furniture and are devaluing a property by doing it wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I feel it\u2019s become a bit sterile. The [staging] kind of looks like Kmart \u2013 worse and worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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