- Ad man Kelly Addis is selling his Waiheke Island estate, designed by Black Box Architects.
- The five-bedroom home offers panoramic Hauraki Gulf views and features a pool, spa, and guest apartment.
- Addis plans to move to Wānaka, with the property priced $1.5m below RV to attract buyers.
A Kiwi advertising guru who started his career with global behemoth Saatchi and Saatchi is selling his multimillion-dollar estate on Waiheke Island.
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Kelly Addis, whose rookie years working on campaigns for Lion Breweries and Air New Zealand led to bigger things overseas and his own multimillion-dollar agencies, has put a sharp price of $7.995m for 62 Park Point Drive, in Church Bay, to draw in the buyers.
The five-bedroom trophy home designed by award-winning Black Box Architects sits on 2.63ha above Cable Bay beach and commands panoramic views of the Hauraki Gulf.
The five-bedroom home was designed around the views, which stretch from Coromandel to Rakino, with the city in the distance. Photo / Supplied
Entertaining friends and family was important to the owners, so the house sports stone floors, a chef’s kitchen and a butler’s pantry and can host 30 people or more. Photo / Supplied
Kelly Addis, right, with Kiwi acting legend Alan Dale in 2010. Photo / Supplied
Addis and his wife, Christina Hyde, bought the land back in 2011 for just over $1.3m after several years searching for a large section with unbelievable sea views. “We walked through the gate and the view just hit us. I looked at Christina and said, ‘This is it’. She said, ‘Yep, this is it’.”
They finished building their dream home in 2018, with Addis telling OneRoof that their brief to Black Box Architects was all about the view.
“As an ad man, we work on single-minded propositions. You can see from the Coromandel through to Rakino from the house," he said, noting that they also wanted the house to be centred around friends, family and entertaining, "so pretty much everywhere we are, we can see kids or family”.
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The couple also bought a local motel, which came in handy when the builders were busy bringing their home to life. “We were living in the manager’s home. I would ride my electric bike out every day, and stand on the grass thinking, ‘This is where the pool is going to be. Imagine having a beer here’,” Addis said.
The house is even better than Addis and Hyde imagined it would be. The size of the rooms and the stone floors easily cope with entertaining crowds of 30 or more, while the self-contained guest apartment means city friends can stay over.
The two-level floor plan includes a spa-like master suite, a butler’s pantry, a study, a games room and underfloor heating, while outside there are multiple decks, a pool and spa pool and parking for 10 cars.
The pool has a spa and views across the water. Photo / Supplied
As well as the main living spaces, there is a self-contained guest apartment and a games room. Photo / Supplied
“When we moved in, we said, ‘We’ll never do this again, we’ll never leave’. But never say never, as now we want to head down to Wanaka and we have got some ideas to build another dream home,” Addis said, adding that the motel business was also for sale.
The couple’s son, Connor, 22, set a world ski freeride record three years ago when he landed a quadruple backflip, but the rest of the family are equally keen for a move to Queenstown’s snowfields.
“We have got a couple of apartments at Onetangi beach, so we will stay up here for a month or two in the summer. But I reckon I have got a good 15 years of skiing left in me. Time to move on,” Addis said.
Waiheke Homes listing agent Tobias Roebuck-Ward said pricing the property – $1.5m below the RV – was a deliberate strategy after a quiet 12 months at the upper end of the market on Waiheke.
“Some RVs on high-end properties on Waiheke went up, some went down. But these owners don’t want to wait a year to get that money from overseas buyers, so for that reason, we have decided to price it, and we feel we have priced it well.”
He said buying at that price would also give buyers scope to make changes to the property with more landscaping (the land has been in paddocks for the owners to run horses).
- 62 Park Point Drive, Church Bay, Waiheke Island is for sale for $7.995m
