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Thursday, 15 July 2010


Entire village for sale in New Zealand

Entire village for sale in New Zealand

A whole village has been put up for sale in New Zealand’s Southern Alps.

The village of Otira, in the Arthur’s Pass National Park, has a pub, a fire station, a village hall, 18 houses and 44 residents.

The current owners, Bill and Christine Hennah, bought the village for £38,000 in 1998. They are retiring and so want to sell it on. The village’s sale price is NZ$1 million (£465,400) and several bids from all over the world have been made.

The people who live in Otira say it is a beautiful place to live and perfect if you want to escape stressful city life.




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  • cinderella (Age 12) wrote on Saturday, 17 July 2010 @ 12:09

    Wow. I never expected that to happen.

  • elise1 (Age 10) wrote on Monday, 19 July 2010 @ 20:21

    CRAZY :):):):):):):):):):)

  • bigal (Age 13) wrote on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 @ 18:07

    I'm tempted to buy it!

  • pokemonkid (Age 14) wrote on Thursday, 22 July 2010 @ 14:59

    wat will happen 2 the people living in th etown then?

  • neelam101 (Age 14) wrote on Saturday, 6 November 2010 @ 17:05

    1 million isn't expensive at all. For a village, i suppose.