Refuge

Bach 78

Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Bach 78 on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Ōrewa/Red Beach area (North Auckland, North Island, New Zealand), at 9 m altitude, on the Hauraki Gulf coast. Continuous Auckland NZ cluster (batches 300-312). "Bach" (pronounced "batch") = a New Zealand family holiday home (contraction of "bachelor"), an iconic NZ coastal tradition (~50,000 baches but declining, post-2010 gentrification, foreign — Chinese/Californian — buyers blocked by the 2018 Foreign Buyer Ban). Number 78 of the land parcel.

The setting

Whangaparaoa Ōrewa/Red Beach North Auckland NZ 9 m Hauraki, continuous cluster batches 300-312, Bach NZ holiday home ~50,000 post-2010 gentrification, Foreign Buyer Ban 2018 CN/US blocked, lot 78.