CHCH buyers make a $ 1 million bet on a historical property of damaged Quake

You.realty agent Nicky Ryan told Oneroof that he reported Nikki Preston that the sale of the Woodstock House in Nelson was a “relief” to sellers.

They bought the 175-year-old property for Nelson-Por’s oldest property $ 860,000 and planned to turn it into a marriage place.

But six weeks after they took the house in 2016, the Kaikōura earthquake suffered and caused significant damage.

Despite being in condition “how it is, where it is,” Covent Drive home, Stoke, still attracted a serious interest from the lovers of character, but careful repair care required to reduce the field of buyers, Oneroof said.

“There were several people who really wanted to buy it – they were just trying to understand the risk,” Ryan told Oneroof.

“It is fair to say that I have a huge database of buyers looking for heritage or character houses in Nelson at the moment – just not ‘how it is’.

Ryan did not disclose the exact selling price to Oneroof, but said it reached the price of $ 1.075 million.

She said the new owners have noticed several buildings damaged by earthquakes in Christchurs.

“They had commitments to various types of people from engineers to builders,” she told Oneroof.

Ryan said the sale was emotional to sellers.

“I think there is a real relief that this chapter is over and now they can move on,” she told Oneroof.

“Your plans changed completely a few weeks after getting there.

“For them, I think they are happy to be over, they are happy to be sold and are happy that I think it is a family that may want to live there and I hope they can enjoy what my owners have never arrived.”

Oneroof reported that the suppliers had worked to take the five -bedroom house to scratch, repairing the batteries and removing 10 tons of brick from the ceiling.

Oneroof previously reported that the property is well known in Nelson.

It was built in 1854 for Nelson Settler, Captain Wr Nicholson, and is the oldest example of a snake house designed by architects in New Zealand.

Ryan told Oneroof last month: “It’s unique – a beautiful and beautiful property of significance, as it is the oldest or believing to be the oldest of its kind in New Zealand. It is a big deal.”

The house had a RV of $ 1.6 million and was built in a section of 10ha in the 1850s, Oneroof said. The land has been subdivided and now covers 2122 m² alongside Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village.