• A fire-damaged Grey Lynn villa in Auckland was passed in at auction last night, but sold immediately after to a local family with young children.

Listing agent Steve Glucina of LJ Hooker Ponsonby says the sale price was close to $1.6 million, which is essentially the value of the land.

The agent says he sold a house in Grey Lynn to the same family three years ago, and now they are “climbing the ladder to the next one”.

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$1.6m for this

LJ HOOKER
A post-auction offer close to $1.6 million was accepted by the owners of this fire-damaged villa in Grey Lynn.