Waterfront living on the Pauanui waterways

This is the Pauanui brief done properly: a generous family home set on the waterways with its own mooring, so the boat sits at the bottom of the lawn rather than in a queue at the ramp. Mornings are flat water and birdsong; the surf beach is a few minutes on foot the other way.

The house is built for summers at capacity - big open living flowing to covered outdoor rooms, bedrooms enough for three generations, and the kind of robust, high-quality finish that shrugs off wet togs and sandy feet. Winters it locks and leaves without a thought.

For an Australian buyer, the comparison worth making is simple: waterfront with a private mooring, two hours from an international airport, for less than a back-street cottage in the equivalent Australian beach town - and with no stamp duty on the way in. Full details, price guidance and the listing agent's information pack are available on enquiry.