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This piece of public land at Motukaraka Point, Porirua, was sold at auction for $1.635 million on Thursday, despite a neighbours consortium wanting to purchase it for just $180,000.
A neighbours’ consortium, led by a Greater Wellington Regional councillor, believed a prime piece of public land in Porirua should be sold to it for $180,000. Porirua City Council valued it at $600,000. Yet, when auctioneer Wayne Sutton’s gavel struck the wooden sound block at Harcourt’s Paraparaumu on Thursday, the 6000-square-metre Motukaraka Point land sold for $1.635 million following “a bidding war”. The winning bid came from an anonymous Wellington man who told