LAND AND BUILDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 8

LAND AND BUILDINGS.

THE SHERWOOD ESTATE.

A SUCCESSFUL SALE.

The unsold sections in the Sherwood Estate, Richmond, Grey Lynn, were offered for sale yesterday by Messrs. Samuel Vatle and Sons. There was a large number of buyers, the auction room being crowded for upwards of two hours. In all 50 lots were offered and no fewer than 45 lots found purchasers, the total sum being £5158. Following is a list of the lots sold and the prices realised per foot:—Lot 147,, 35s per foot; lot 148, 265; lot 149, 275; lot 150, 275; lot 151, 28s; lot 152, 335; lot 153, 425; lot 155, 245; lot 156, 30s; lot 145, 575; lot 137, 675; lot 134, 79s ; lots 133 and 162, 120s; lot, 135, 77s 6d ; lot 120, 375; lot 132, 38s; lot 131, 67s 6d; lot 130, 66s 6d ; lot 129, 61s ; lot 128, 6ls ; lot 127, 61s; lot 119, 425; lot 126, 555; lot 118, 45s ; lot 117, 425; lot 124; 52s 6d ; lot 116, 35s 6d; lot 123, 53s 6d; lot 115, 42s 6d; lot 122, 53s 6d; lot 100, 32s 6d: lot 99, 37s 6d; lot 114, 465; lot 32, 345; "lot 136, 765; lot 138, 57s 6d; lot 139, 57s ; lot 140, 68s; lot 52, 60s; lot 33, 365; lot 157, 49a 6d ; lot 98, 553; lot 7, 100s. A nine-roomed residence in Basque Road, Eden Terrace, was offered for sale by Messrs T. Mandeno Jackson yesterday. The section has a frontage of 70ft to Basque Road and of 41ft 6in to New North Road. The bidding reached £1045, at which price the property was passed in.

A number of suburban properties were : offered for sale by Messrs. Smith and Halcombe yesterday, but none were sold, the bidding failing to reach the reserve in each case. A two-storey 11-roomed house, with four acres of land, in Victoria Avenue, Remuera, known as Te Oki Oki, was passed in at £2800. For a 12-roomed house in Elizabeth-street, Ponsonby, standing on nearly three-quarters of an acre of ground, £1500 was offered. A six-roomed villa in Valley Road, Mount Eden, with a section 50 by 150, advanced to £645; whilst for a six-roomed house, with a section of 50 by 127, in King Edward-street, Mount Eden, £680 was offered. A large number of building sections in. the town of Helensville were offered for sale by auction by Messrs. T. Mandeno Jackson yesterday. Nine lots were sold at prices ranging from £10 to £26. A dairy farm in the same district, consisting of 617 acres, was offered, but failed to reach the reserve and was passed in at £6 10s an acre. Nearly 40 sections in the town of Papakura will be offered for sale for cash by auction at the Auckland Lands Office on December 16. The areas range from 34 perches to two roods nine perches, the area of the majority of the sections being one rood. The upset prices range from £10 to £40.