What the lucky $6.3 million Lotto winner could buy in Auckland

Imagine winning $6.3 million. One lucky Kiwi doesn’t have to sit at their desk daydreaming any more, after winning precisely that much in Wednesday night’s draw.

I’m not green with envy, you’re green with envy.

There are so many things they could do with that cash, like buy about 10,000 years worth of ice cream, 62 Tesla Model 3 Performance cars or even – and this is really out there – a house in Auckland, which is exactly what the winner reckons they’ll do.

I would’ve gone for the ice cream myself, but you do you, bro.

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So what does about $6m get you in the city of sails these days? The winner said they weren’t looking for anything flash, but maybe we can tempt them.

A Golden Age movie star mansion

This five bedroom, brick-built, 1920s home in Epsom is so “old money” it has a name, Stoneways. Sitting on 1212sqm in the coveted Mountain Road area, the home is directly across the road from Auckland Grammar.

Built by architect William Gummer to be his own home, it has sun rooms, a formal dining room, maids’ quarters and a loggia – a covered outdoor room perfect for going the full Humphrey Bogart in a white tuxedo sipping mai tais during those balmy Auckland summers.

Homes.co.nz estimates it to be worth around $5.75m, leaving our buyer with $550,000 to furnish it. It’s listed with Wei Wei Elder for Bayleys with a deadline sale that ends Thursday, June 16, at 4pm.

A beachfront villa

If there’s a Tāmaki Makaurau property dream, it’s being by the beach. This two-bed, one-sleepout home fits the bill, having only a road between it and the briny splendour of Tīkapa Moana-Hauraki Gulf.

A 1910-built, double bay villa, it comes with all the usual villa bells and whistles – stained-glass, batten and board ceilings, native timbers, a mature, private garden and of course, a view that’s worth every single penny of that Lotto win.

Homes.co.nz estimates it to be worth about $5.47m, leaving our winner with $830,000 to spend on a boat and skipper lessons. It’s listed with Trish Fitzgerald and Tracey Lawrence for Barfoot and Thompson, price by negotiation.

A jungle house

What’s the point of living in sub-tropical Tāmaki Makaurau if you’re not surrounded by lush, green jungle? This cottage in Onehunga understands the assignment, with a massive garden full of palms, banana trees and giant, weeping figs. There is also a pool – or should I say small blue lagoon.

Restored in 2015, this character home offers the best of both age, and modernity, with loads of period detail – check out those batten and board ceilings again – and fresh updates to the kitchen and bathrooms. Lush as.

This five-bed, two-bathroom, 288sqm home, on 3176sqm of jungle-covered land, is listed for $5.75m, with Paul Sissons and Kim Goodhue for NZ Sotheby’s International Real Estate. That leaves $550,000 spare to spend on Bermuda shorts, machetes and pith helmets.

A lifestyle block

There’s no way winning big on the Lotto won’t change your life. Why not lean into by buying a whole new lifestyle? This architecturally designed home – the award-winning ‘Bramasole’ by Herbst Architects – is on 7.9ha in Waimauku, about a 45-minute drive north of central Auckland, offers exactly that.

It comes with a four bay stable, two separate buildings for accommodation and an entire winery, just to really nail home that new life vibe. Add to that the ultra modern, Japanese-inspired ranch style home, with glass walls in the living areas that open to bring that outside in and your whole new you is complete.

Homes.co.nz estimates it to sell for about $5.07m, leaving a whopping $1,230,000 to spend on horses, ride on mowers and the new $214,900 Range Rover. The property is listed with Nicole Calis for Barfoot and Thompson and is for sale by tender.

A Bond-villain lair

You don’t actually have to be a Bond villain to live in an underground lair, in fact, I would advise againsht​ it (see what I did there?). Instead, consider this delightful, 1950s built, four-bed, two-bath bungalow in Glendowie. It really is charming.

Yes, it has a secret underground room, and commanding views over a semi tropical paradise, but that’s where the similarities to cinematic lairs end. The fact the front yard could double as a helicopter landing pad is purely coincidental.

What you’re really buying here is the potential. You could add a second floor for a look-out – I mean master bedroom suite. You could add a pool in front. And if that pool happens to retract to reveal a space laser, rocket or trap filled with wild crocodiles, well that’s no one’s business but your own.

For sale by auction, the agents – David Nightingale and Elisabeth Hampson for Bayleys – say bidders should ignore the property’s $12.5m RV and think closer to our winner’s budget. Still, it’s likely our pal wouldn’t have much left if they nabbed this place. Perhaps just enough for a high-backed swivel chair and fluffy white cat. Perfec-shon.