New Record Price Paid for Foxton Beach Property
22 December 2006
The quiet rural Foxton Beach community has just received a boost in property confidence with the confirmation this week
that one of its homes sold for a record $675,000.
According to Manager of Harcourts Foxton, Maria van der Schouw who marketed the property, prior to that, the highest
price achieved had been just on $500,000.
The 286sqm home on a 733sqm section at 9 Trafalgar Street was described as an “architecturally designed home with two
independent living areas on three levels.” Making the most of its site, the house included three bathrooms, views of
ocean, estuary and ranges, as well as private decks from the master bedroom and living areas.
Maria van der Schouw noted that the quiet Manawatu beach community was becoming more popular and over summer had as many
as 10,000 people in residence. And while traditionally its property owners tended to be retired or holidaymakers, the
close half hour drive to Palmerston North was seeing more family and upmarket executive style homes being built to cater
for those preferring to live at the beach and commute to work.
However it’s not just the beach drawing people to the area. Foxton’s panoramic views of the Tararua Ranges and pleasant
rural countryside along with the just under two hour drive to Wellington had also increasingly attracted a number of
lifestyle block owners to move there in recent years.
ENDS