One-room hunter's shack sells for $880,000

A single-room hunter's shack on a 20ha block on the remote West Coast within Fiordland National Park, with no telephone or electricity, has sold for $880,000.

The bush-covered site -- inaccessible by road -- is at the mountain end of the Martins Bay spit, nestled between the Hollyford River and Tasman Sea, about 30km north of Milford Sound at the end of the Hollyford Track, The Press reported today.

The area is covered by rigid planning guidelines -- requiring Department of Conservation approval and a resource consent for development -- and is one of about 26 freehold titles in the 1.2 million hectare Fiordland National Park .

Dunedin-based property developer Ron Anderson is the principal in a consortium which bought the land last week.

Locations Real Estate agent Jeff Toner told the newspaper the tender attracted substantial interest.

With no roads to the site, the owner needed to have a good set of hiking boots to reach it from the beginning of the Hollyford Valley, or by air or sea transport.

'Part of the attraction is that a lot of people couldn't get there,' Mr Toner said.

- NZPA