While Auckland Council is refusing to divulge how much van den Bogaart owes, he was ordered to pay $102,680.90 in unpaid rates and related costs in October 2022 after the council took him to court. <\/p>\n
The amount owed is likely to have since grown significantly, from arrears and penalties. <\/p>\n
This former chicken farm at 2 Logan Rd, Buckland will go under the hammer on September 2 in a forced High Court rating sale. <\/p>\n
A Barfoot & Thompson \u201cHigh Court sale\u201d listing went live this morning. The property will be auctioned <\/a>on September 2 if no compromise can be reached. <\/p>\n Auckland Council group chief financial officer Ross Tucker said it had been working for \u201csome time\u201d to resolve the debt with van den Bogaart.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, we have been unable to reach an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n Proceeding to a rating sale was a last resort, Tucker said. <\/p>\n \u201cNo rates have been paid on the property since 2012 and the council is taking action now, as it needs to recover the unpaid rates. <\/p>\n Tucker said no payments or settlement offer had been received. <\/p>\n \u201cThe council never takes a rating sale lightly \u2013 we prefer to work with all property owners who are behind on rates and usually find a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n Owner alleges \u2018slush fund for Auckland City\u2019<\/p>\n When the Herald spoke to van den Bogaart in 2020, he estimated he owed more than $50,000. <\/p>\n The then 62-year-old said his rates were unjustified and demanded to know what council services he received on the Pukekohe land before handing over money.<\/p>\n After the council launched legal action in 2017, van den Bogaart filed a counter-claim alleging negligence and breach of the Local Government Act.<\/p>\n He demanded an \u201citemised breakdown\u201d specifying what assets and services he received in exchange for his rates.<\/p>\n He argued the property did not have a house, rubbish collection or potable water supply, and the land had been rezoned by the council, undermining its value.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not clear what council services, if any, are being provided to justify the rates allegedly to be paid,\u201d a July 2019 statement said. <\/p>\n Six years ago, he told the Herald the property had been derelict for 10 years, used no council services and generated no income.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no house, no residence and nobody living on the property. I want to know what the property is being rated for.\u201d<\/p>\n He was taking the stand for all ratepayers charged \u201cunfairly\u201d for non-existent council services.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not paying rates if it\u2019s going into a slush fund for Auckland City.\u201d<\/p>\n The case went to trial in September 2022 with a judgment issued against van den Bogaart in October that year. It found in the council\u2019s favour, dismissing van den Bogaart\u2019s counter-claim and ordering him to pay more than $100,000. <\/p>\n Tucker said no payment plan had been received so the council registered a charging order against the property in March last year and filed a rating sale application in September. <\/p>\n The High Court had now granted the application. <\/p>\n The council encouraged van den Bogaart to contact them and come to an arrangement over the rating debt before September 2. Otherwise, the sale would proceed. <\/p>\n Only third such case in super city history<\/p>\n If sold next month, the former poultry farm would be just the third property forcibly sold by Auckland Council over unpaid rates. <\/p>\n The last sale taken by the council was a North Shore home with an outstanding rates bill of more than $219,000. <\/p>\n The four-bedroom, two-bathroom, 200sq m townhouse went under the hammer in April this year after the council had unsuccessfully spent years trying to track down the owner \u2013 even hiring a private investigator.<\/p>\n The Northcote do-up in Raleigh Rd was in \u201cpoor condition\u201d<\/a> and featured monolithic cladding. It required a full renovation. <\/p>\n While its latest council valuation is $1.025m, it sold for $610,000.<\/p>\n Tucker said \u201cexhaustive efforts\u201d had been made to speak to the owner, Choi Wu, who is understood to be living overseas.<\/p>\n Auckland Council applied to the High Court to forcibly sell the former chicken farm at 2 Logan Rd, Buckland after its owner failed to pay any rates in 14 years. <\/p>\n
The 2.2ha property at 2 Logan Rd, Buckland has a 2024 CV of $2.2 million.<\/p>\n
This property in Raleigh Rd, Northcote was forcibly sold by Auckland Council in April over an unpaid rates bill of nearly $220,000.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Marsh at her former home in Manurewa before it was forcibly sold by Auckland Council following her refusal to pay $12,000 in rates. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n