There are homes and there are these rare homes on the Peninsula not surrounded by townhouse projects - the kind where the true value sits in the size of the lifestyle you can live here and the opportunity to make it truly yours. This is where children grow up and where Sunday mornings feel like holidays.
With motivated vendors downsizing, this is a genuine chance to buy under CV - value that savvy buyers will recognise immediately.
Tucked away from the road, step through the door of this magnificent period villa and feel it immediately - that rare, unhurried sense of space. High ceilings soar above gorgeous, generous rooms carrying old world charm you simply cannot build today. Ornate details, beautiful bones, and a warmth that wraps around you from the moment you arrive.
The kitchen is spacious, social, and made for real family life - opening effortlessly out to extensive decks and the largest garden in a flow that's genuinely next level. Weekend breakfasts spilling outside, summer barbecues that never feel cramped, kids moving freely between inside and out. It's indoor-outdoor living that actually works.
The bathrooms are completely modern and utterly gorgeous - all the character of a period home with none of the compromise.
That garden is larger than life - fully fenced, private and absolutely enormous. Safe for children and pets from day one. If you have green fingers, this is the garden project of a lifetime. Picture a swimming pool glittering in the summer sun, or a granny flat for the grandparents - or the teenagers who think they're ready for their own place.
Now for the detail that will make every school-run parent's jaw drop. You're not just next door to Te Atatu Peninsula Primary - there's a private gate in the garden fence with direct access straight to the school grounds. Your children walk out the back gate and they're there. No car, no rushing, no chaos. Just a ten-second stroll across the grass. This isn't a feature you can add later, and it isn't one you'll find down the road - it's built into this address and this address alone.
The garaging is double, extra large, with serious storage for bikes, sports gear, tools, even a boat. Add off-street parking for at least six cars and there's space for the whole extended family at Christmas, the trailer, the boat and the camper van.
With the vendors downsizing, the home is ready to love you exactly as it is - or with your personal vision applied to it. Whether you're dreaming of a restored family estate, a development opportunity or the ultimate forever home with a granny flat, the Mixed Housing Urban zoning means the possibilities are genuinely yours to shape (with your due diligence and council approval, of course).
This is where opportunity meets emotion: a motivated sale means the value here sits under CV, while everything the home actually offers - the walk to school, the garden, the scale, the character - sits well above it. For the buyer who can see past a number on paper, that gap is the opportunity. Properties like this don't come back.
This section, this location, this combination of size, character and lifestyle - with direct private access to the school gate - exists nowhere else on the Peninsula right now - this is the one. Come and see it. Bring the family. Start imagining your life here.
Nestled in the heart of Te Atatu Peninsula | Private gated access to Te Atatu Peninsula Primary | Fully fenced large garden | Pool Potential | Modern bathrooms | Seamless indoor-outdoor flow | Extra large double garaging & storage | Parking for 6+ cars or boats
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