Hill house price tops previous record
A RECORD price has been fetched for a Queenstown Hill holiday home.
An awardwinning fourbedroom St Andrews Park home sold this week for more than Queenstown Hill’s previous highest price — $6.4 million in 2008 for a home at The Peak — Queenstown NZ Sotheby’s International Realty’s Hadley van Schaik, who listed the property with colleague Gerard Bligh, said. He did not wish to reveal the exact price.
The St Lukes Lane home — winner of the New Zealand Architect New Home of the Year award in the 2018 Trends International Design Awards — was designed for Australian clients by Gary Todd, of Dunedin, and constructed by Queenstown builder Brian Hill.
Named ‘‘Cascata’’, it is distinctive for a waterfall running through the garden and into the house, and for seethrough glass walls.
The house had been rented out to holidaymakers from
$11,000 a night.
Mr van Schaik said it had now been bought by an Australian, sight unseen, as a holiday home. Another colleague, Mark Harris, was the buyer’s representative.
The home had been sold fully furnished and with a 2018 Land Rover Discovery in the garage.