Boasting five bedrooms and five bathrooms on a site of 1277sq m, the home had tremendous views of Lake Wanaka and surrounding mountain ranges.
It had a large kitchen with expansive living areas primed for entertaining guests and it also had garage parking for four cars.
"If you've got good views, that's what people want," Walsh told the Wanaka Sun.
"There's been nothing like this on the market for quite a while, and it's quite liveable too. It was big but didn't feel huge."
Elsewhere, despite Hansen's luxury lifestyle property in Prebbleton, Canterbury failing to be sold at auction, interest was still high.
The property was spread over 2.8 hectares just outside of Christchurch and the reason for selling was the Hansen's were preparing for life after rugby.
"It's as simple as that," Hansen said when it went on the market.
Steve Hansen's lifestyle property for sale in Canterbury. Photo / Supplied
"We've loved everything about our beautiful home over the last four years, however, we're now preparing for the next phase of our lives after rugby."
The 520sq m stone-trimmed house picked up a Master Builder gold award for new homes over $2m in 2016.
Its kitchen also won a Master Builders' Heart of the Home kitchen award and was highly commended in the Trend kitchen awards.
