{"id":611261,"date":"2026-09-25T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611261\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:20:10","slug":"iconic-debris-strewn-home-in-foxton-up-for-sale-listing-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611261\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iconic\u2019 debris-strewn home in Foxton up for sale, listing goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNot for the faint of heart, and while some good headway has been made, the site is still heavily cluttered with scrap, rubbish and debris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCan you turn the devastation into reincarnation? The property will be sold \u2018as is, where is\u2019, and disclosures exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The &quot;iconic&quot; 40 Avenue Rd property has gone viral in two days. Photo \/ Property Brokers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The &#8220;iconic&#8221; 40 Avenue Rd property has gone viral in two days. Photo \/ Property Brokers<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The five-bedroom property has a council valuation of $340,000 but the vendors will consider offers over $229,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Property Brokers agent Kate Lemon told the Herald the property has had \u201can extreme amount of interest\u201d in the past two days since being listed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s gone viral, like I\u2019ve had that many inquiries. I think just today 15 have come through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is the perfect property for development, depending on council requirements and things. You could put up to three or four houses down there or potentially even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The five-bedroom property is billed as an \u201cexcellent opportunity\u201d for developers and investors. Photo \/ Property Brokers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The five-bedroom property is billed as an \u201cexcellent opportunity\u201d for developers and investors. Photo \/ Property Brokers<img  alt=\"Vendors will consider offers over $229,000. Photo \/ Property Brokers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Vendors will consider offers over $229,000. Photo \/ Property Brokers<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Lemon said the owner, \u201cwho was the nicest guy going\u201d, died recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEveryone who is local to Foxton knows the property and would have known the owner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSince he\u2019s passed away, the family has actually done unbelievable amounts of work to clear the debris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen he was still in the property, the scrap and rubbish was sort of up to the six-foot fence and there was no grass visible. It was literally like a 30cm track to the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The property is being sold &quot;as is, where is&quot;. Photo \/ Property Brokers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The property is being sold &#8220;as is, where is&#8221;. Photo \/ Property Brokers<img  alt=\"The property owner, &quot;who was the nicest guy going&quot;, died recently. Photo \/ Property Brokers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The property owner, &#8220;who was the nicest guy going&#8221;, died recently. Photo \/ Property Brokers<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The property is set to be sold on October 16 and \u201cwill not be sold prior\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn the two days that it\u2019s been listed, I\u2019ve got at least three people that have expressed an interest in putting in an offer,\u201d Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is one that people need to get on to because I absolutely expect it to sell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNot for the faint of heart, and while some good headway has been made, the site is still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17517,301168,2082,60238,5275,22220,1345,16569,78,44266,111,139,69,6046,814,1133,213,13672,810,5143,102],"class_list":["post-611261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-because","tag-debrisstrewn","tag-for","tag-foxton","tag-goes","tag-going","tag-home","tag-iconic","tag-in","tag-listing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-potential","tag-property","tag-sale","tag-sports","tag-state","tag-up","tag-viral","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611261","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=611261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}