PHOTO: PHIL DOYLE/STUFF Former prime minister Sir John Key’s mansion from the air. The Keys are building a new home where the tennis court was.
Sir John Key has sold his Auckland mansion for $23.5 million, in what was New Zealand’s second most expensive house sale of 2017.
Lianzhong Chen bought the 1752 square metre property at 103 St Stephens Ave in Parnell on February 28, 2017 but a long settlement period meant the title officially changed hands just last week.
The property’s most recent CV of $16m was issued by Auckland Council in July 2017, after it was bought by Chen. Annual rates for the property are more than $32,000.
A CoreLogic spokesman confirmed the house sale was New Zealand’s second most expensive of 2017. The most expensive sale that year was 19 O’Neills Ave, Takapuna, which sold for $28.9m.
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