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CHURCHILL Street residents were entertained last week by the sight of two relocatable houses arriving at a property on their street.
The homes, trucked overnight from Auckland on Tuesday and Friday, had to be raised high enough to pass a house at the front of the property as they were reversed down the driveway.
Nationwide Housemovers performed this feat by placing a second trailer under the house once it arrived outside the property.
Each trailer was fitted with hydraulic rams that could raise and lower the trailers and house on top of them, or tilt the house, as was required on Friday to clear the roof of the original home on the property.
Marketed by LJ Hooker, the property is for sale for $729,000 and once the two new homes have been tidied up and connected to services, and garages have been built, a rental income of $1000 a week is suggested as a reasonable expectation.
Asked why houses were being trucked from Auckland to Whakatane when Auckland is desperately short of them, a Nationwide Housemover worker said his company was “flat out” shifting suitable homes out of Auckland.
Auckland property owners were uplifting and selling them, then replacing them with much bigger and more valuable buildings, he said.