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<\/p>\n– The Castle, a landmark Tauranga home, sold within five days after attracting 35 viewing groups.<\/p>\n
– An accepted pre-auction offer cancelled the auction after buyers quickly embraced its unusual castle-style design.<\/p>\n
– The undisclosed price exceeded its $1.61m valuation, while Tauranga properties averaged 51 days on-market.<\/p>\n
Tauranga\u2019s landmark castle \u2013 complete with a turret, drawbridge and circular peepholes \u2013 has sold within five days of hitting the market.<\/p>\n
The architecturally designed 1970s home on Maxwells Road, in Ot\u016bmoetai, attracted a swarm of buyers as soon as the listing went live last Thursday and was sold by the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n
EVES agent Lauren MacRae told OneRoof that 35 groups viewed the property, including the new owners who liked what they saw at the weekend and swiftly made an offer.<\/p>\n
MacRae, who marketed the property with colleague Charlotte Gardner, said the buyers immediately fell in love with the design and character of the house.<\/p>\n
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The 1970s home was in a good location and had a timeless design that appealed to lovers of interesting architecture. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
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The property had been sympathetically modernised over time. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
The wife, who was overseas at the time, spotted it online and so sent her husband to look at it on Saturday. They made a pre-auction offer four days later that was accepted, cancelling the planned auction.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was pretty determined.\u201d<\/p>\n
The current owners had lived there for 11 years, and their three children had grown up in the spacious four-bedroom, two-bathroom home dubbed The Castle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an amazing family home for them, especially given all the cool quirky spaces like the loft above the garage and the mezzanine bedroom accessed via a ladder,\u201d MacRae said.<\/p>\n
They were ready for a change and were moving to the neighbouring suburb of Matua with a bigger house but smaller section, she said.<\/p>\n
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