420 Dairy Flat Highway, Albany Heights

420 Dairy Flat Highway is the kind of bush block that built Titirangi's reputation. 4.1 hectares of mature canopy in Albany Heights, held by one family since 1966, offered for the first time in nearly sixty years. Two minutes to Albany Village.

This is untouched land. More than ten acres of original Auckland bush with regenerating understorey. Held since 1966 and left exactly as it stood. No house, no clearing, no work. The block runs northeast through hundreds of metres of canopy, catching morning sun and sheltered from the southwesterlies. The contour invites a considered home, with the right position best confirmed on a site visit with your team. Nothing to undo. Held, hiked, and left to itself for nearly sixty years.

What will you build into ten acres of untouched bush? Set deep in the canopy, the tui as your morning soundtrack, the bush as your privacy and your view. The kind of home that takes its design cues from the land it sits on, not the other way round. A coffee on a Saturday morning that costs nothing extra to taste like luxury. You become the custodian of your own botanical sanctuary, held by one family for nearly sixty years and ready for the next.

A clean canvas. Power, water, driveway and platform all designed by you to suit the home you have in mind. Most lifestyle blocks come with someone else's decisions baked in. This one comes with none.

The clever buyer spots it from the Highway. A natural earth bund along the road frontage already does the job most lifestyle buyers spend tens of thousands engineering themselves. Plant it, soften it, and the entrance designs itself.

Directly opposite sits Hosking Reserve, a public reserve being progressively restored by Auckland Council. Annual community planting days. Documented kauri, rimu, totara, kahikatea, puriri, nikau and taraire growing in the same forest type as your bush. Conservation work happening across the road, on a much larger scale, and the reserve stays green forever. Your bush sits inside a wider green corridor with restoration as the trajectory.

Two minutes to Albany Village. Four minutes to North Harbour Stadium. Four minutes to Westfield Albany. Six minutes to the motorway on ramp. Seven minutes to Pinehurst. Seven minutes to Kristin. Albany Heights, Dairy Flat, Lucas Heights and Coatesville all meeting at this address. Just 270 metres down the Highway, the Future Urban zone begins. The Dairy Flat to Albany corridor is being planned for long-term growth. Your bush stays. Green belt land like this becomes more valuable, not less, as the city builds around it. What is preserved here cannot be replaced.


Key points:

• 4.1872 hectares (more or less), freehold, title issued 1966

• Rural Countryside Living Zone, Albany Heights

• Raw, unserviced land, bring your own design, your own services

• Northeast facing slope, mature canopy with regenerating understorey

• Principal dwelling plus minor dwelling rights

• Subdivision pathway available via Transferable Development Rights, subject to resource consent. Full planning report in the information pack.

• Road frontage with natural earth bund

• Hosking Reserve directly opposite, Future Urban zone 270 metres down the Highway

• Full information pack and prospectus available on request

Viewings

All first viewings should be with the salesperson by appointment so the property can be discussed properly on site. Subsequent viewings with your advisors are at your discretion. Parking is in the layby area on Hobson Road near the bus stop directly across from the property. There is no parking currently available at the property frontage on Dairy Flat Highway.

Held by one family since 1966, offered for the first time in nearly sixty years. The sale is being conducted by a court appointed property manager under formal instructions. The vendor is committed to a sale and every offer presented will be carefully considered. Buyers who move early, especially those who recognise what intact untouched bush is worth, may find the door is more open than they expected. For the full information pack and prospectus, make contact today.

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