It's an unusual house, flat-roofed with block-like extensions and a once stunning view of Rangitoto that has been built out.
Sunday, September 28th 2003, 5:12AM
by The Landlord
But that and the 1970s vaguely-brown patterned wallpaper, which fights with the much browner lino in the kitchen did not stop it from fetching more than $1 million at auction this week.
It proves location is indeed everything.
The house is a short stroll from Milford Beach on the North Shore and on auction day the sun was shining and by lunch-time the former owner, 82-year-old Norma Wheeler, was a happy woman.
She had put a reserve price on the Muritai Rd property, on advice from her real estate agent, of $900,000 and was optimistic of a little more
