Living room
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Lake Pupuke, looking towards the city1
Named for the lake it looks over · about 5 minutes to the water
Unit 29, 73 Anzac Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand2
$1,595,0002
Asking price on the agent's current listing — not a valuation.
The home
Most apartments along this stretch of Anzac Street come with one carpark. This one has two, plus two lockers, a separate study, and the top floor to itself. Here is the full spec sheet, every figure traceable to where it came from.
Inside the apartment
Every space below can be viewed unfurnished, or in one of three styling directions. Unfurnished is always one tap away: it is the honest baseline every styled photo is measured against, not an afterthought.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
Digitally staged. Furniture and styling are artist's impressions shown to illustrate the space. Property is sold unfurnished. Fixed finishes are as-built.
The original photograph for this room already carries the agent's own "virtually staged" watermark from the original listing — it was staged before this project touched it, so a genuinely unstaged reference photo does not exist for this room.
Unedited original photograph.
Styled and unfurnished versions of the balcony are on hold. The base render they were built from had visible tile staining digitally removed — a defect, not a styling choice — so none of them can be shown here. The family are arranging a professional clean and a reshoot; the real, unedited photo is below in the meantime.
Unedited original photograph.
Styled and unfurnished versions of the kitchen are on hold. Every generated version — including the "unfurnished" reference — changed the floor from its true darker finish to a light oak that was never installed. Flooring is a fixed finish, not styling, so these images cannot be shown until they are regenerated with the real floor preserved. The real, unedited photo is below in the meantime.
Unedited original photograph.
Same issue as the kitchen (this is the same floor, seen from another angle): every styled version altered the floor finish. On hold until regenerated. The real, unedited photo is below in the meantime.
Original photograph, unaltered. Shared amenity.
Original agency floor-plan scan, unedited.
Floor plan
Every dimension below is read directly off this plan. The plan itself states its measurements are approximate, taken internally, and exclude wall thickness — treat them as a guide to proportion, not a survey.
The building
Prestige on Pupuke is a 42-unit complex across three buildings — Rata, Pohutukawa and Kowhai — built in 2005. A 2003 pre-completion news report describes the buildings as masonry and concrete rather than the monolithic cladding used on many apartments of this era; council records don't themselves specify a construction material, so that description is noted below as reported, not independently confirmed — either way, nothing found anywhere points to the monolithic-cladding construction associated with New Zealand's weathertightness history. The vendor has been an active, involved owner — among other things, she chaired the body corporate for a number of years. A few running-cost figures below are still being confirmed with the building's records before we publish them as fact.
Location & lifestyle
This is not a beachside apartment, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: Takapuna Beach is About 1,556 m, roughly a 20-minute walk10. What the building's own name gets right is the lake: About 414 m, roughly a 5-minute walkcalc.107. For everyday errands, this stretch of Takapuna tests as 85 — "Very Walkable"1112 on Walk Score, a third-party measure that does more work than any adjective we could write here.
Road-network routing distances, not straight-line. Walking times are a standard-pace estimate from that distance, not a live journey-planner pull.
A school being nearby does not mean this address is zoned for it — we checked both separately.
The evidence
These are the closest same-size (123 m²) sales found in this complex, plus two larger units shown for context. Every figure below is a publicly reported price, not a registered-title extract — and it is nominal, unadjusted for time or condition, in the table below (the range that follows it is time-adjusted). A dedicated market-research pass produced the range below and may refine it further.
$1,400,000–$1,500,000calc.Clean comparable base (5 sales excluding the 9/73 outlier and the 1/73 Nov-2025 resale): time-adjusted rate per m² ranges $9,216–$11,020, average $10,194 (updated 2026-09-14 to use exact-calendar-month QV index anchors rather than approximated quarters — see cmp_comparables_table). Applied to unit 29's 123m²: $1,134,000–$1,355,000, central $1,254,000. Cross-validated against homes.co.nz's AVM (independently backtested to within 1–2% of time-adjusted actual price on 4 of 5 testable units — see cmp_avm_backtest_table), which supports a range extending higher once the two flagged transactions are given some weight as upside evidence rather than excluded outright (9/73 adjusted $13,482/m², 1/73's second sale adjusted $11,414/m² — a ceiling implied value of roughly $1,659,000 at 123m²). Range widened from the comparable-only band to $1,300,000–$1,650,000, central estimate $1,400,000–$1,500,000, to reflect both signals without endorsing either extreme; this outer range is a judgement call set comfortably wider than the mechanical band, not a recomputation of it, so it is unchanged by the small (1-2%) shifts in the underlying per-m² figures.1314151617188941920212223
Full evidence-derived range: $1,300,000–$1,650,000 (confidence: moderate)
This is a range derived from public comparable-sales evidence, not a valuation, appraisal or registered valuer's opinion — and it should not be read as one. The current asking price of $1,595,000 sits $95,000–$195,000 above the central estimate.
Not a valuation — an evidence-derived range, presented as a band rather than a point estimate because the underlying evidence is genuinely thin (six comparable sales, none in unit 29's own building) and partly contradictory (see the limitations noted in Section 3). The current asking price of $1,595,000 sits $95,000–$195,000 above the central estimate, at the top of the outer range. A Sale/CV ratio method was tested (n=3 post-May-2024-CV sales, ratios 0.952–1.257, a 32-percentage-point spread) and rejected as a primary anchor — applying any single ratio to unit 29's CV swings the implied value by roughly $472,750, which is too noisy to found a range on; it was used only as a sanity-check bound. A higher band built by applying the two highest of those three ratios to unit 29's CV (implying roughly $1.74m–$1.80m) was considered and rejected, because: (1) it is built on a CV already shown to be elevated relative to unit 29's one true same-size, same-carpark peer (19/73, CV $1,375,000 — see Section 3); (2) it uses the two most CV-exceeding of three available ratios rather than their median, which includes 0.952; and (3) one of the two transactions behind it is the same-unit resale at 1/73 occurring only four months after an earlier, lower, arm's-length sale, for a reason not established from public data (see Section 3).
Unit 29's Capital Value appears elevated relative to its closest true peer. Unit 29 CV $1,550,000 vs 19/73 CV $1,375,000 — a $175,000 gap between two otherwise matching units48 19/73 is unit 29's closest true peer: same building (Rata), same floor area (123m²), same carpark count (2). Both carry a 2024 council capital value, yet unit 29's is $175,000 (12.7%) higher. This could reflect genuine features not confirmed present in 19/73 (unit 29 has 2 storage lockers and a top-floor position), or it could reflect mass-appraisal banding noise. Public data cannot resolve which. The practical consequence: unit 29's CV cannot safely be used as the base for a sale-to-CV-ratio valuation method (see Section 7).
No Rata-building sale in over six years. Most recent identified Rata-building sale: 16/73, $1,350,900, 24 September 201898 Unit 29 is in the Rata building; every one of the six comparable sales used in Section 3 is in Kowhai. Six Rata units were identified in total (16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 29/73); none has a sale within the last six years, and the 2018 sale at 16/73 is too old (it spans both the 2021–22 boom and the correction since) to time-adjust with useful precision. On capital value, Rata is not the weaker of the three buildings — Rata's 154m² units carry CVs of $1,550,000–$1,625,000, at or above Kowhai's equivalent units ($1,550,000–$1,575,000) — and no public source describes any physical or positional difference between Rata, Kowhai and Pohutukawa (whose CVs run lower than both). This is stated because a reader might otherwise assume Rata comparables were simply omitted; they were sought and not found.
1/73 Anzac Street sold twice in four months. $1,475,000 (21 Jul 2025) then $1,800,000 (22 Nov 2025) — a 22% move on the same unit in four months18 The earlier sale followed a roughly 4.5-month marketed campaign with no evidence of renovation and is treated as the more conservative, arm's-length reference point. The cause of the second, higher sale four months later could not be established from public data; it is not necessarily an open-market, arm's-length transaction. It is included in the comparables table (flagged, not excluded) because excluding data without a confirmed reason would be its own form of bias — but it is treated as a questionable comparable, not a clean one, throughout Section 3 and Section 7.
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Sources
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