7 Costley Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland

Karen Spires' Website\n\nWho would guess what's behind the door of this gorgeously groomed, French farmhouse-style home - a pool, a roof-top terrace, triple garaging, two outdoor gas fireplaces, mouth-watering interiors and to top it off, a self-contained loft apartment with its own access off Georgina Street. This truly unique city-fringe property has been masterfully designed to make use of every possible corner. The main house has two living areas over split levels wrapped around a sheltered courtyard and pool. Add a study with external access, French-style kitchen and utility room while upstairs, attic-style bedrooms will delight the kids while parents can step out from their room to the exquisite roof-top terrace. At the bottom of the garden, the self-contained one-bedroom apartment can be rented, used as the perfect home office, be a guest suite or for extended family or teens. Across the road from Costley Reserve, a short stroll to Ponsonby Rd and the CBD. Vendors have purchased - priced to sell .\n\nLand size: 419sqm more or less\nFloor Size: 183sqm more or less\nCV: $1,400,000 Land: $630,000 Improvements: $770,000 (prior to renovations)\n\nEmail Karen if you would like to be sent:\n- Recent sales in Freemans Bay\n- Floor Plans\n- LIM\n- A comprehensive property report which includes Title, CV, LIM, etc. \n\nIf you would like to receive Karen's weekly email newsletter, Karen Spires' Residential News, please email her. It's a great way to hear about new listings and keep up to date with the local property market.\n\nABOUT FREEMANS BAY\n\nFreemans Bay is the name of a former bay and now inner suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. The historical bay was filled in to a large extent, and the quarter lost its shoreline to newly reclaimed areas. Historically a poor and often disreputable quarter, it is now known for its mix of heritage homes and more recent single-dwelling houses, as well as for its two large parks.\nHistorical bay\n\nSince the turn of the 20th century, extensive land reclamation (partly using stone quarried from nearby headlands) has seen Freemans Bay itself disappear. The reclamation of the old bay was finished in 1901, and Victoria Park was created on most of the resulting flat area. It is still public land used mostly for sports purposes. The coastline shifted more than one kilometre to the northwest of the city centre and is now composed of the concrete wharves of Viaduct Basin and the Tank Farm.\nSuburb\n\nThe suburb of Freemans Bay is located near the original shoreline, a little over a kilometre to the southwest of the bay's current location. It is surrounded by the suburbs of St. Marys Bay to the northwest, Ponsonby to the west, Newton to the south, and by the city centre to its east. According to the 2001 census, the Freemans Bay area unit had a usual resident population of 3,678.\n\nIn recent years (2000-2003) the north-eastern part of Freemans Bay's original shoreline has been transformed into the Viaduct Basin, which served as a headquarters for the various yachting syndicates involved in the America's Cup campaigns of 2000 and 2003, and is now an upper-class (multi-story) residential area, which also includes some prestigious office blocks.\n\nClose-by local State secondary schools are Auckland Girls Grammar School and St Mary's College, though the latter is outside the actual suburb's boundaries.\n \n