Auckland may be perceived as our most expensive city, but Wellington is drawing considerable online attention
Auckland may be perceived as our most expensive city, but Wellington is drawing considerable online attention 8 January 2021
Kiwi auction website Trade Me has released its most popular property listings from 2020.
The most viewed was a home in the Wellington suburb of Maupuia - formerly owned by Jonah Lomu - with close to 200-thousand clicks.
Trade Me spokesperson Millie Silvester says six of the top ten listings were all expensive properties in the capital.
Old wheelbarrows, spade, hoes and hand tools are always wanted. Trade Me spokeswoman Millie Silvester says that in late November they saw a 25 per cent increase in the searches for gardening tools. Second-hand pots are also in demand, with 14,000 searches in one week leading up to Christmas. Among them, the good old terracotta pot was the most popular, followed by outdoor pots and plastic pots. We’ve all got a few terracotta pots lying around that could be scrubbed up and either put to good use, or sold for a bit of ready cash.
Dominico Zapata/Stuff Over at Neighbourly, one person’s garden waste is another’s garden opportunity.
Jonah
Lomu’s former Maupuia mansion
New
Zealand’s most photogenic
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Arnold,
Wellington’s air traffic control
tower
Trade Me’s Millie Silvester
said Kiwis are keen property lovers and every year unique
properties or million-dollar mansions take out the top spots
for the most viewed properties of the year.
“Jonah
Lomu’s former Maupuia mansion was our most viewed property
of 2020 with 196,000 views. The five-bedroom
Mediterranean-style house with expansive views of Wellington
harbour has an RV of $2.4 million and is still
listed onsite for those who haven’t yet seen
it.”
Ms Silvester said the list wouldn’t be
STUFF
This hilltop mansion, formerly owned by the rugby great Jonah Lomu, has come on to the market for the first time in 16 years. (Video first screened February 2020)
A Maupuia mansion once owned by the late Kiwi rugby legend Jonah Lomu was the most viewed property on Trade Me last year, clocking up 196,000 views. The five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style house on the hill with expansive views across Wellington city and harbour featured on
Stuff in February, and is still for sale by negotiation. For most of last year, offers were invited over $3 million. The house has a rateable valuation of $2.43m. Lomu bought the house for just over $1m at the end of 1999, when he was just 25. He sold the property at the end of 2003, not long before he underwent a successful kidney transplant. At the time he was living with his second wife, Fiona, whom he married in 2003.