146 No 4 Road Te Puke, Western Bay Of Plenty District

New Zealand real estate keeps soaring as ex-pats head home or immigrants seek greener pastures. Bay of Plenty is blessed with golden beaches, pristine bush and rich horticulture; particularly Te Puke - New Zealand's kiwifruit capital, with its orchards, lifestyle blocks and rural real estate.

With a town-meets-country setting, Te Puke enjoys a small, urban image; yet it's only around 20 minutes to Tauranga, the Mount and major export port. This lifestyle block epitomises Te Puke's first kiwifruit boom - when homes were designed on a grand scale. It blends stateliness with rustic character; cedar weatherboards outside and timber treatments drifting throughout the interior.

With a foyer marked by slate flooring and winding staircase, the bar catches the eye first. A designer kitchen adjoins this meeting point, before the house meanders into spacious dining and lounge rooms. There's a sunken log-fire snug is with curved, inbuilt seating instilling mood in this brick and slate corner. The formal lounge is more traditional - another fire radiating warmth into dining next door; while a conservatory floods sunlight into this vaulted atrium.

Four stunning bedrooms include a ballroom master suite with massage, spa-bath bathroom, dressing room and private balcony. There's ensuite privacy for another bedroom and bathroom luxury for other rooms. With office space, huge laundry and multiple parking, outdoor settings include a stone barbecue, chat corner, petanque and cricket on the lawn. As rural New Zealand lifestyle go; luxurious is the only description here. Come home to Te Puke - the best is yet to come.

Viewing by appointment: Phone Patrick to arrange a private viewing. This lifestyle property is one of the best of New Zealand real estate currently for sale and so close to Tauranga.

To view all photos of this property, visit: www.patrickstegeman.com/rural-lifestyle-and-luxury-living/
AUCTION: 1pm (NZT), Thurs 7 April 2016 at Ray White Bayfair, 12 Girven Road, Mount Maunganui (unless sold prior)