- Paul Henry and Diane Foreman own two mansions in Remuera and a $10 million hotel.
- They spent $9.75 million on a new home and are deciding on their Arney Crescent property.
- Foreman bought the Newmarket Central hotel, formerly a police station, for $9.6 million.
TV star Paul Henry and his wife, rich-lister entrepreneur Diane Foreman, are the proud owners of not one, but two mansions in Auckland's Remuera. Plus a $10m hotel in a nearby suburb.
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OneRoof can reveal that the couple spent $9.75m on a French provincial-style home late last year and are deciding what to do with their now-surplus five-bedroom estate on Arney Crescent.
Foreman's real estate agent and friend, Barfoot & Thompson's James Doole, told OneRoof that the couple had moved out of Arney Crescent and were now living in a "significant property" he sold them last year.
"Diane has completed a major renovation on their new house. It is spectacular,” Doole said.
OneRoof got an exclusive tour of the home when it hit the market in October 2024.
Entrepreneur Diane Foreman and broadcaster Paul Henry. The pair are embarking on a new real estate adventure. Photo / NZ Herald
What the new home looked like when it hit the market in 2024. It boasts views of Waitemata Harbour, Rangitoto and the iconic Ngapipi Road boatsheds. Photo / Supplied
The master suite was expanded to create a private sitting area, a huge walk-in wardrobe and an ensuite bathroom. Photo / Supplied
It included a brick-lined sunroom, a secret garden, a library with wall-to-wall built-in bookshelves, an indulgent master suite, a heated swimming pool and even a room dedicated to a favourite handbag collection.
Surprisingly for an estate of its size, it only had two bedrooms, although it did offer views of the Waitemata Harbour, Rangitoto and the iconic Ngapipi Road boatsheds on the edge of Whakatakataka Bay.
Doole also revealed that the couple had not yet sold Arney Crescent and were now deciding what to do with it. “It hasn’t sold, and so we’re having a rest,” he told OneRoof. “They have yet to decide if they will put it back on the market."
Foreman and Henry first put Arney Crescent on the market in September 2024, when Henry fronted the marketing in a video in which he told buyers: "You'll have to be rich, it is fabulously expensive."
The mansion, which has an RV of $18m, would, Henry said, "transform your life; it's transformed mine. It's in the top 0.3% of homes in the country, if not the best home in the country."
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It's not the only piece of real estate news that the couple have broken in recent weeks, with the New Zealand Herald's Society Insider column spilling the tea on another impulse buy.
Henry told his Instagram followers that he got a shock when his wife, rich-lister entrepreneur Diane Foreman, told him she had bought a hotel for just $10m.
Henry revealed that Foreman sprung the news on him after "returning from a pedicure".
"It’s not at all unusual for my wife to return from outings/walks etc with purchased items I had no idea we needed but can clearly not live a moment longer without… She recently outdid herself ... she bought a hotel!"
The boutique accommodation at 58 Remuera Road, in Auckland's Newmarket, was snapped up by Foreman this year. Photo / Supplied
The original cells, with brick and kauri, were refurbished as a novelty guest suite. Photo / Supplied
Henry and Foreman have been trying to sell their luxury mansion on Arney Crescent, in Auckland’s Remuera, for nearly two years but have hit pause on the campaign. Photo / Supplied
The property Foreman snapped up was Newmarket Central, a boutique, 17-room hotel with a twist. "It’s the old Newmarket Police Station, Sergeant's house and Cell block, beautifully redesigned and fitted out," Henry wrote. "Great location! Anyway, hard to imagine we could live a moment longer without it."
Accompanying photos on Henry's Instagram page indicate the hotel will be open for business from next month.
The property hit the market at the start of this year after undergoing an extensive renovation. OneRoof records show the property was sold for $9.6m - well above its RV of $5.8m.
CBRE director of capital markets Brad Ross, who marketed the former police station, told OneRoof that the family who had bought the property in 2020 had just completed the refurbishment and obtained code of compliance before they put it on the market.
"The [original cells] have been comprehensively refurbished in line with heritage requirements. So they still have the original brick, the original kauri sleepers where prisoners used to sleep on are still there. Essentially, that's a sort of a feature guest suite.”
Foreman is no stranger to hospitality, having refurbished the Emerald Inn in Takapuna, a block from the ocean, over 30 years ago. Last year, she and Henry announced her plans to the local newspaper to upgrade the hotel site, where she has been gradually acquiring neighbouring properties.
With his wife's return to hospitality and tourism, Henry may want to claim the portfolio in his new career as a politician.
In his first press conference announcing his intention to stand for Parliament on the ACT ticket, Henry admitted that perhaps real estate numbers are not his forte.
After promising a new, multi-billion-dollar cancer hospital, he conceded he didn’t know how many billions would be required to fund the build: “I’m a big picture man! We’ll employ 50 people to work that out.”
Henry welcomed questions about his reasons for entering politics by accepting he was an “uncommonly handsome older gentleman who clearly doesn’t need a new career”.
“My wife and I have 10 grandchildren between us. Like every grandparent, I want them to grow up in a country that rewards success, values freedom, and gives people every opportunity to build a better life through their own efforts.”
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