2 Auckland warehouses were sold yesterday at CBRE’s first multi-property auction in 7 years (discounting a joint promotion with Bayleys in 2015), but 3 retail units in the new Ramada Remarkables hotel in Queenstown struggled to muster 2 bids (other than vendor indicators) between them.
Agencies sometimes take “out of town” properties to auction in the country’s biggest investor market, Auckland, and often enough find the big-city investors don’t materialise, as happened in this case.
Isthmus east
Panmure
34 Allenby Drive:
Features: 855m² site, existing house vacant, resource consented for 6 apartments & a terraced house
Outcome: vendor bids of $900,000 & $980,000, passed in
Agent: Peter Turner
North-west
New Lynn
12 Stock St:
Features: 660m² warehouse zoned light industrial, ground floor occupied by karate dojo on lease running to 1 March 2018 with 2 2-year rights of renewal; the vendor, the Auckland Play Centre Association, has vacated the upstair offices; 8 parking spaces
Outcome: sold for $970,000
Agents: Michael Bray & Deborah Dowling
South
East Tamaki
28C Andromeda Crescent:
Features: 901m² clearspan warehouse – 728m² warehouse with 4.8m stud height, 85m² warehouse office, 88m² first-floor office; new roof, 2 roller doors, sealed yard, tenant vacating in March
Outcome: sold for $1.75 million
Agents: Patrick Sammon & Lewis Watson
South Island
Queenstown
Developer Rob Neil of Safari Group (NZ) Ltd, who has specialised in development of Quest hotels and, more recently, Ramada hotels, built the 59-suite Ramada Remarkables at Remarkables Park, including the 3 retail outlets which were taken to auction.
Total rent from 5 new tenancies is $300,900/year.
Agents for all 3 retail units were Richard Larman & Ellie Martin.
24 Hawthorne Drive, unit 2:
Features: 2 tenancies of 58m² & 88m², a rental car office & a gym, 2 parking spaces
Rent: $83,400/year net from 6-year leases, each with 2 3-year rights of renewal
Outcome: passed in after a starting bid at $500,000 and closing with vendor bids of $1.05 million & $1.4 million, the last indicator representing a yield of 5.96%
24 Hawthorne Drive, unit 6:
Features: 228m² Franks Eatery, 8-year lease, 3 4-year rights of renewal, 2 parking spaces
Rent: $128,400/year net
Outcome: no bid
24 Hawthorne Drive, unit 7:
Features: 2 tenancies of 95m² & 61m²; the larger finance company tenancy of 6 years, 2 3-year rights of renewal, 2 parking spaces; the smaller ophthalmologist’s tenancy of 5 years, 3 3-year rights of renewal, 2 parking spaces
Rent: $89,102.12/year net
Outcome: passed in after a starting bid at $1 million and closing with a vendor bid of $1.4 million, representing a yield of 6.36%
Attribution: Auction.
