Former National Party leader Don Brash is selling the one-bedroom Wellington apartment that has been his part-time home for two years.
Dr Brash - whose time as an MP finished yesterday - admitted to a touch of nostalgia as he reflected on his now-empty office at Parliament.
But
the decision to sell his apartment appears to have been a little less emotional.
"I think the logic of retaining it isn't very great," Dr Brash said yesterday, as an advertisement for his 53sq m abode flashed across Parliament's electronic noticeboard.
"How frequently I'll be in Wellington I don't know, but I wouldn't expect it to be anything like as much as I've been in Wellington in the last 4 years."
In between his enthusiastic sales spiel for the apartment - "if you went into it, you'd think it was brand new" - Dr Brash said he had been spending time at his kiwifruit orchard and dusting off a CV to look for jobs.
The former Reserve Bank Governor is open to the idea of continuing in fulltime employment, or juggling directorships with some consulting work.
A fulltime job would need to be particularly interesting to lure him.
"The Waikikamukau Promotions Society wouldn't particularly appeal," he joked.
Dr Brash's farewell from Parliament has been relatively low key.
He had dinner with the party's board at the end of last year, but his colleagues have not thrown him a formal leaving party.
His valedictory speech came at about the same time as a stream of Christmas parties around Parliament, so Dr Brash said he "didn't really expect" his own farewell party.
"John Key made some very gracious remarks about my contribution at the last caucus meeting of the year," he said.
Now it's back to the sales spiel, and Dr Brash is proud to say his apartment in the Bolton Hotel remains in "mint condition" two years after he took possession of it brand new. He wants $300,000.
