Luxury Auckland waterfront penthouse for sale is missing a kitchen

If you lived in New York, you would not find it strange that an apartment for sale has no kitchen. It’s common in the Big Apple for the owners of luxury apartments to take their kitchens with them when they move.

The owners of this amazing two-storey waterfront penthouse in the Endeans Building in Auckland, known as the “White Unit”, removed the kitchen when they had plans to replace it with a new one.

They didn’t need it in the meantime, because they also own the adjoining apartment, using one apartment as an office, and one as a home.

But listing agent Nicola Kelland of Nicola Kelland Real Estate says they have since decided to sell both apartments, either separately or together.

Which means anyone buying 6D on its own will be minus a kitchen.

“It is all plumbed, and the owners thought there is no point putting in a kitchen that might not be to a new owner’s taste. It’s best to sell it without the kitchen and leave the fit-out over to the new owner.”

The absence of a kitchen is unlikely to put off potential buyers, because both apartments are prime real estate, in a character heritage building right on Auckand’s city waterfront opposite the ferry terminal.

“This building is extraordinary,” says Kelland. “It’s one of just a few character apartment buildings in the city – you can have a home or an office here, as the current owners do.”

Apartment 6D has just one large bedroom – a  master suite is on the roof level, with its own deck. A new owner might also like to put in a second bathroom.

Apartment 6E has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, and a separate kitchen.

Special period features of the Endeans apartments include wrap-around verandas, high ceilings and steel joinery. There is also a dramatic atrium with a traditional cage lift.

The Endeans Building was originally constructed as a four-storey building in 1905 and rebuilt in 1914 after a fire. A fifth floor was added around 1930, and a six floor in the 1970s. The building was freeholded from an Auckland Harbour Board lease in the mid 1990s by developer Arthur Morgenstern.

Apartment 6D has a CV of $NZ1,180,000 ($1.13 million) while Apartment 6E has a CV of $NZ1,020,000 ($978,000). Both properties are for sale by tender, with tenders closing August 8.

This story was first published by Stuff.co.nz