PHOTO: FLORENCE CHARVIN/NZ HOUSE & GARDENA couple’s unexpected move took them from Auckland to a cottage in Taupo.
Four years in and Colin and Rebecca Anderson are still a little bemused that home is within a peaceful settlement just a few kilometres south of Taupō.
The retired couple had just finished renovating their forever home in Auckland when a golf trip brought them to the area, and a real estate brochure on a cafe tabletop seduced them.
“We didn’t even know we were looking to leave Auckland and didn’t really know we had an intention to buy here,” says Rebecca.
Colin, a keen fisherman, had spent time nearby trout fishing in the Tongariro River, but Rebecca had never even holidayed in Taupō. “I only ever drove through on my way to something,” she says.
It wasn’t even this white weatherboard character home that grabbed their attention in the real estate brochure – that wasn’t yet on the market. It was a Kinloch home on a sizeable piece of land. While checking it out they detoured to visit friends living nearby.
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