• The sale of a house has set a new price record for the Lower Hutt suburb of Taita as more buyers and sellers turn to auctions.

Neeraj Narwal and his wife Bharti Sirohi were holding their breath as they bid on the four-bedroom house at auction on Thursday.

After three months of looking, and being forced to widen the search, the couple snapped up their second home in Pringle St for $538,000 – $143,000 more than its rateable value (RV).

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New owners of a Pringle St home in Taita are Neeraj Narwal and his wife Bharti Sirohi, who is holding their three-month-old son Vivaan.