A four-bedroom Meadowbank home bought for $973,000 in May was sold for $162,000 more three months later despite no renovations - a feat the agent puts down to the hired furniture he used to stage it.
The only touch-ups to the property between the sales were a lick of paint to some rooms and a tidy-up of the gardens.
A Chinese couple bought 7 Beere Place for $973,000, but put it back on the market two weeks later with an asking price of $1.180 million. They sold it in August for $1.135 million - $235,000 above CV - to a New Zealand couple with two children who intended to use it as a family home.
But an Auckland woman who looked through the property said it was "unloved" and needed a lot of work. It still had its three original 1970s bathrooms, original kitchen, cracked tiles, dripping taps, a leak next to the pool, old and dirty net curtains and a damp smell downstairs.
The couple never lived in the house as they found out two weeks after they bought it that they needed to return home and live there for two years before they could claim superannuation and get it transferred to New Zealand.
