Piece of NZ on Cher's shopping list

International star, Cher looks around North Harbour Stadium where her first New Zealand show of her Farewell Tour will take place. Picture / Dean Purcell

Between photo shoots and performing for 20,000 fans in Auckland, Cher has been busy doing what visiting entertainers do - looking for a piece of New Zealand to buy.

The 58-year-old singer told the Weekend Herald yesterday that she is not after anything too grand: "I just want about 20 acres and a beach."

During an exclusive photo shoot, the perfectly groomed Cher said she had engaged a real estate agent to find the right block of land while she is in the country for two concerts.

Cher has already looked at several properties and was meeting the agent yesterday afternoon to look at pictures of more.

The singer, dubbed the world's sexiest grandmother, was not sure exactly where she wanted to buy, but it had to be "some place tropical".

Wearing pink slingbacks, black cord cargo pants, a white T-shirt and black hoodie with pink tinted sunglasses, Cher said she was excited to be here as part of a farewell tour that started in 2002.

The singer has hired a helicopter so she and her crew - who yesterday included a manager, several hair and makeup people and a head bodyguard - can see more of the countryside.

"We have just seen a little bit but so far it's great. We were really excited to come here because we have never been here before."

Cher performs at North Harbour Stadium tomorrow night and at the Westpac Centre in Christchurch on Tuesday night.

Details of her costumes - which in the past have been less than restrained - remain top-secret. As for the colour of her ever-changing hair, it's too early to say if it will remain the fluorescent pinky-red-orange that matched her eyeshadow, shoes and sunglasses for yesterday's photo session.