The New Zealand house so bad that even the real estate agent calls it 'nasty'

“You won’t find anything much cheaper than this or any worse.”

That’s a house listing sales pitch you won’t see often.

But it’s the opening shot of a strange and hilarious advert from Waikato real estate agent Briony Ward under the headline “Cheap Cheap Cheap and Nasty”.

The online Me listing is for the house at 144 Hunter Road, Eureka, near Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ward pointed out the charming news that the house was opposite a slink factory (processes dead lamb and calf skins) and was surrounded by overgrown trees.

“Bring a slasher and a chainsaw and have fun,” Ms Ward said.

“This is an opportunity to get on the property ladder and with a lot of hard work you could make something of the 4 bedroom house … ” she said, but then couldn’t resist ending with “… or get the local fire department to burn it as a training exercise and start again.”

In an interview with Stuff, Ward said it was the first time she had been so brutally honest about a house after being given the seller’s permission to do it that way.

She admitted there were a couple of people who thought they could do it up.

“Then they came and had a look,” she said. “I think most people are thinking demo as opposed to reno.”

The house comes with no vendor warranty, so was definitely an as-is sale.

Ms Ward thought the honesty may pay off.

“I would rather have 200 people come and have a look and think they can do something with it than 700 people come and look and say it’s terrible. It’s about being brutally honest so nobody is under any misapprehension about the condition the property is in.”

This story was first published by Stuff.co.nz