Location and Views

For Sale $895,000

Location, sun and views are everything when buying a home and this unique property has it all. Built on a ridge in a prestigious area, high above the waterfront, the north-northwest facing, four double bedroom home features generous indoor and outdoor entertaining areas, including a huge games room, a swimming pool, massage room and sauna.

Within walking distance of Nelson's popular waterfront restaurants and a comfortable stroll from Tahunanui beach, with its long stretches of sand and safe swimming, the property is a short drive from the city centre.

The views are mesmerising as they sweep across the waterfront, Haulashore Island, the Cut, Boulder Bank, lighthouse and port to Tasman Bay, the Waimea estuary and islands, the Moutere hills and the long curve of the Western ranges as they extend to Separation Point. It is an ever-changing panorama of visiting ships, tourist vessels, yachts and pleasure craft, which can alter dramatically from a sunlit seascape to a spectacular Nelson sunset.

Built in 1980, the solidly constructed 400 square metre home and remote controlled, 4-car garage combines Tuscan gold roughcast plaster exterior walls on a concrete block base, with timber joinery and a terracotta concrete tiled roof. Conservatories in the living areas are fitted with aluminium joinery. Floors throughout are rimu.

Low maintenance, 630 square metre grounds include easy-care gardens, a small rear lawn and a spacious, terracotta ceramic-tiled courtyard and outdoor dining area, surrounding an 8 metre x 4 metre, inground concrete salt water swimming pool, which extends along the seaward frontage.

The house is warm and well insulated with Batts in walls and ceilings. There is a log burner in the sunken lounge and two wall mounted electric heaters. Water is electrically heated, with three hot water cylinders, including a 177 litre cylinder in the living area and a 180 litre cylinder in the kitchen. A 20 litre cylinder under the sink provides instant hot water. The house currently receives Broadband and Sky TV. There are numerous candelabra and matching wall lights throughout. In addition to security doors and sensor lights, there is plenty of exterior lighting.

Thick, misty grey fade and stain resistant carpet is fitted in the living and dining rooms, sunken lounge, master bedroom, dressing room and walk-in wardrobe. There are rimu floorboards in the family wing and landings and neutral carpet in the lower level.