Apartment price — $7.25m
Just one left to snap up at Halsey St complex that offers amazing views of city, harbour
If you have a spare $7.25 million, you can still be in the running to snap up one of New Zealand’s most expensive apartments with its views over Auckland city and the harbour.
Your cash will buy you a Wynyard Quarter sixth-floor apartment, featuring a custom-designed kitchen with European appliances and scullery, four bedrooms, a theatre room, private lift and 65sq m of balcony.
One balcony faces east and overlooks the city and Viaduct Harbour next door, while two westfacing balconies offer the chance to bask in the afternoon sun.
The 232sq m apartment has come up for sale after its owner had a change of circumstances.
It is the last one left in the sold-out 132 Halsey St complex, which has been under construction since November 2015 and is expected to be completed this year.
While the Herald understands the sixth-floor residence is not even the most expensive in the Halsey St complex, it still ranks among Auckland’s priciest apartments.
And its sale comes after the Herald last month revealed a new two-level “super penthouse” in Auckland’s under-construction 57-storey Pacifica was being marketed for $35m — a record price for a New Zealand apartment.
Salesman and CBRE national residential projects director, Gavin Lloyd, said at the time that nothing like the CBD penthouse had been sold in the country. Each of the penthouse’s two floors will be 636sq m, making the apartment five times the size of the average New Zealand house, he said.
The penthouse would have four bedrooms, a separate guest suite, formal lounge, chef-style kitchen, butler’s kitchen, banquet-style dining area and cellar and wine tasting room. It would also feature a media room, library, gym, sauna, spa and steam room, art gallery, sky garden with double-height ceiling, office, board rooms and up to 12 parking spaces.
It is likely to be joined at the top of the market by a penthouse in the nearby Seascape apartment tower on Auckland’s Customs St East.
Developers will ask “more than $20m for the master penthouse, which will occupy two floors with five bedrooms, roughly 350sq m and astonishing 360-degree views”.
It will be at least two years before each multimillion-dollar penthouse is finished in the two underconstruction towers.
Elsewhere in the city centre, New Zealand businessman and White House aide Chris Liddell has reportedly paid a deposit for a $15m penthouse apartment in The International.
The ex-Fonterra headquarters at 9 Princes St is being converted into residential use, and developer Gary Groves said the penthouse had sold, but did not confirm Liddell was the buyer.
But compiling a list of the most expensive sales was notoriously difficult because they were often sold in multiples, Nick Goodall, research head at CoreLogic NZ, said.
He listed a couple of recent sales that just shaded the asking price at 132 Halsey St.
These included Unit 402 at 424 Remuera Rd, which sold for $8.7m on May 25 last year, and a unit at 4A/154 Saint Stephens Ave, Parnell, that went for $8m on March 21, 2016.