CONTACT:
Cheryl and Jeremy Milton 021 951 472 and 021 680 995, Bayleys.
AUCTION:
April 20, unless sold prior.
People love staying at Wendy and Barry Newport's house so much they reckon it's been dubbed the "Newport Hotel".
The decision to sell the house on a prime spot overlooking the sea has been a hard one but Barry's work in the electrical industry is taking the couple to the Far North.
The Newports, originally from Gisborne, spotted the house almost by accident.
They had decided to jump off the work treadmill for a couple of years so had bought a yacht and were sailing around New Zealand.
The views out to sea and along Red Beach are incredible, they say.
They look all the way to Orewa and out to Kawau Island.
"We've got a lovely sea view - ocean view - but we look right along the beach so when the swells come in it's very nice to see the surfers all playing out in the sea there," says Barry.
"Orewa's very busy now, almost like the Gold Coast, but Red Beach is still a little bit of a hidden gem.
"We take our paddle boards out of our shed there and go down and launch off the access way, which is about 100m from our gate, and paddle down Red Beach and over to Orewa and have a bit of a surf and come back. It's very nice."
They have seen stingrays along the way as well as dolphins, plus they have seen orca a few times.
The original part of the house was built around 1952 when Duncansby Rd was "Mr Duncan's farm" and was mostly baches.
In the 1970s the house was tripled in size and Wendy and Barry then added an extra bedroom and en suite and did up the kitchen.
You come through the entranceway into the lounge and look out to sea, and their bedroom looks out to the deck and the sea.
At the back of the house are another two bedrooms with French doors out to a patio area with grass and cobblestones.
Wendy loves colour so she has planted a cottage garden. While she spends a lot of time in the garden, Barry's favourite place, if he's not out on the paddle board, is on the deck with a cold beer.
Since they arrived in Whangaparaoa the number of facilities and services has grown with the population.
