On Thursday last week we became the proud owners of a three bedroom house in Claudelands, Hamilton, ticking off the second major task on our todo list for our visit back to NZ.
We had been looking at property in Hamilton since before we left Dublin thanks all the listings available online. Our original thoughts were that we’d like to find somewhere that needed some work but was still in a reasonable condition such that we could rent it to good tenants until we return to NZ at some point in the future. Once we got here and actually started looking in person it became fairly clear that there wasn’t a huge amount of new properties coming on to the market at the moment, and what was available didn’t really fit into that category. In the end we purchased a nice house that was built in 1947 but had been heavily renovated in 2006 and really shouldn’t need much work at all when we return.
The house was sold via an auction, as pretty much every property is being sold at the moment, which provided some tense moments as we were competing with three other bidders! Obviously we were happy with the final outcome though, and in hindsight I actually really enjoyed the thrill of a bit of competition for the house we wanted. If we needed any further reminders that Hamilton really is a small place we got them at the start of the auction when the auctioneer started the bidding by mentioning that he used to live in the house!
So, the important details:
- 3 bedroom, 190m2 weatherboard house
- small office in addition to the bedrooms
- double internal access garage
- lots and lots of cupboards
- 30m2 external garage/workshop
We’re currently looking for tenants to look after the house until we get back to NZ, so if you know anyone looking to rent a three bedroom house in Claudelands, then let us know and we’ll pass them on to the property manager!