A Beerescourt home will go under the hammer tomorrow in Hamilton as a special two-for-one deal: Buy a house get a free cat.
The property at 9a Elizabeth Street features four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a spa and Mark the half-tail cat who decided to move into the place one day and never left.
Lodge Real Estate Residential and Lifestyle Sales Consultant Megan Smith says she believes this is the first time a cat has ever been listed in a property’s chattels (or ‘cattels’ in this case).
“It is certainly a career first for me, and dare I say – perhaps the first time in New Zealand that a white-socked tabby has been officially included in a sale.”
The vendors say that Mark appeared crying on the doorstep one day - wet, shaking, and sickly - and hasn’t left since despite the vendors’ attempts to return him to his original owner.