Freehold Home and Income Business For Sale
Otorohanga, New Zealand
Exceptional country residence with hosted accommodation and pet-stay businesses
Nestled discreetly in the friendly rural community of Whawharua (on the outskirts of the bustling Otorohanga township), this elegant 6-bedroom home offers comfortable spacious living with expansive countryside views plus income from two separate home-based businesses.
Redwood Lodge, as well as offering generous living space for its owners, offers Bed & Breakfast accommodation to tourists who come to visit the nearby Waitomo Caves - one of New Zealand’s top tourist destinations. The B&B business is successfully marketed through an excellent website and in a range of glossy publications.
Secondly, the owners of Redwood Lodge have built and developed a quality cattery and boarding kennels business with an impressive list of regular clients.
All of this is set amid 8 acres of wonderful rolling Waikato countryside with mature native trees and an acre of redwoods providing an imposing backdrop to this wonderful residence.
Bed and Breakfast Accommodation
Redwood Lodge – delightful country accommodation offering guests peace and tranquillity
Redwood Lodge operates a Qualmark 4 star Guest and Hosted accommodation business.
The downstairs accommodation offers 4 guest suites each comprising a double room with ranch slider and flanking windows, double wardrobe, en-suite (laminate walls and ceiling) with Akronite three door vanity, wall mirror, shaver point, stainless steel shower with laminate lining and aluminium framed sliding door, and semi-screened WC.
Although generally the same specifications, the suites are all individual in layout, with natural light and access to the patio and gardens. Each room has a heat pump-air conditioner and hot water supplied by a 180 litre cylinder.
Kiwi Room
Queen bed, sofa bed, table, chairs, valuables safe, hair dryer, clock radio, tea and coffee facilities.
Weka Room
Queen bed, sofa, table, chairs, valuables safe, hair dryer, clock radio, tea and coffee facilities.
Kea Room
Queen bed, sofa bed, table, chairs, valuables safe, hair dryer, clock radio, tea and coffee facilities.
Kea Guest Room with ensuite bathroom and ranchsliders to the patio
Tui Room
King bed (splits into 2 x single), chesterfield sofa, table, valuables safe, hair dryer, clock radio, tea and coffee facilities.
All rooms are tastefully decorated. Bedding includes quality cotton sheeting with duvets and quality covers and anti-allergenic pillows and protectors.
Guest facilities – ground floor
- Guest dining room with kauri dining table and rimu chairs, sideboard, granite fireplace with log box and hearth.
- Guest lounge with two leather chesterfields, snooker table, open fireplace, SKY television and video player.
- Separate toilet - all laminate surfaces - and complete with vanity unit.
- Separate shower with double stainless steel base, curtain and all laminate lined.
- Separate infra-red sauna with corner vanity unit.
- Outdoor gazebo with spa pool (5 persons).
- In-ground swimming pool.
- Fabulous grounds with lawns and gardens complete with barbecue and garden furniture.
Guest lounge with open fireplace, television and pool table
Day to day management
Business Hours:
Variable, according to guest requirements.
Staff:
The business is operated by the two owners. If required, they are available to assist the new owner, terms by arrangement.
Office:
The business sale will include a computer and associated equipment, phone, fax / photocopier, and an Operators Manual.
Memberships
@Home New Zealand.
Tourism Association of New Zealand.
Destination Waitomo.
Advertising and Promotion
The B&B business is promoted through roadside signage and advertising in Yellow Pages, in Charming, B&B Black Book, and Jason’s Travel Guide. The business owns and maintains an informative web site www.redwood-lodge.co.nz with booking form. Other advertising is done via i-Sites, Travel Agents and Brochure placement.
Kennels and Cattery Business
Redwood Lodge – where pets are family
The kennels and cattery were purpose-built to European standards.
The kennel building (98 square metres) is constructed of precast concrete block work with galvanized pipe and chain link mesh runs. Concrete floors are insulated as is the galvanized roof. Services include electric lighting and power, with water coming from a bore on the property. A waste water system is in place with storm water diverter.
Petstay kennels and cattery
The central area of the main building houses a concrete block bathroom, grooming area, store and workshop. A solid timber door leads to the kennels and double doors lead to the kennel runs. There is ample room to expand the number of kennels.
The adjoining cattery (145 square metres) is constructed of vertical profile galvanized walls and a gable roof with battened fibre-cement gable and concrete floor. Walls and ceilings are lined with wallboards. The cattery has 6 large communal cat pens and numerous cages. The cattery incudes and office. The size of the cattery could be easily increased.
Day to day management
Business Hours:
Monday to Saturday - 8.00 am to 11.00 am and 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm, closed Wednesday.
Sunday - 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm.
Office:
The business sale will include price lists, daily routines and feeding charts, and an electronic cash register.
Advertising and Promotion:
Clients come from repeat business, local advertising, word of mouth recommendations, referrals from local vets and the SPCA, and from advertising in Pet Guide.
Gracious Residence
Freehold property - prime rural location in South Waikato
The owners are selling the freehold title to land (3.56 hectares) and buildings at 222 Puketawai Road, just outside the township of Otorohanga in south Waikato.
The residential house (including the B&B business) covers 575.5 square metres over two levels with B&B services on the ground floor and generous owner’s private quarters on the ground floor and above.
The building is a clinker brick dwelling with timber over the windows, aluminium joinery, with battened plaster on fibrocement cladding, gables and dormers, trough section colour steel roof, and concrete slab floor. Interior walls are painted plasterboard (insulated) and floor coverings are mostly new carpet throughout with vinyl in wet areas. There is an adjoining garage (65 square metres) and ample parking spaces for guests.
Private facilities - ground floor:
- Dining Room has ranch slider out to deck and is semi separated from the kitchen by timber front breakfast bar. The Dining Room leads to sunken lounge with granite fireplace with log box and hearth and heat pump.
- Kitchen comprises stainless steel double sink and drainers, Kauri rolled-edge laminate work surfaces, quality cottage style kitchen units, including island cupboards and bench. It is equipped with a Ceramic Hob (Fisher & Pykel), bench-mounted down draft extractor, SDR stainless steel wall oven with grill over, F&P double dish-drawers dishwasher.
- Laundry with laminate to walls and ceiling with Robinhood supertub.
- Airing cupboard racked out and housing 180 lit electric hot water cylinder.
- Storeroom shelved on one side, and ample storage space for additional equipment.
- Entrance Hallway comprises tiled floor and decorative lighting.
- Hallway with rear lobby and storage under stairs in 4 cupboards.
Ground floor kitchen
Private facilities - upper floor
- Stairs leading to upper floor landing of generous proportions accommodating office space, supplied with Velux skylight.
- Master bedroom with copious wardrobes and Velux skylight, leads to new en-suite comprising twin pedestal hand basins, common wall mirror, wall hung cupboard unit, recessed acrylic flexihead on slider shower, with pivot door and extractor fan light. Genuine, free standing, refurbished, claw foot bath, WC, bidet, wall fan heater, stainless steel heated towel ladder, towel rack. Hot water supplied by Infinity gas system. Tiled to full height on one wall and waist height on remaining, Velux skylight.
- Second double bedroom with window overlooking spa and pool area and a Velux skylight.
All of this (B&B, Petstay, and gracious Residence)
for the incredibly competitive price of $895,000.
Additional Land (optional)
Adjacent to the existing land is a further 4 acres of flat paddocks with mature trees, all necessary services and a building consent. This property is valued at $165,000 (plus GST) and is available to the purchaser by separate negotiation.
Call John or Georgina on +64 7 873 6685 (day) or 0275 411 905 (evenings) Otorohanga and Waitomo Caves
Redwood Lodge is just outside the busy town of Otorohanga, the official ‘Kiwiana’ Capital of New Zealand. Otorohanga is also home to “The Kiwi House", a native bird park dedicated to the conservation of native wildlife and where endangered species of birds and reptile can be seen. Just to the south is Te Kuiti, a town known as the sheep shearing capital of the world due to the annual New Zealand Sheep Shearing Championships.
Redwood Lodge is also close to the world famous Waitomo Glowworm Caves and the larger Ruakuri Cave with its swirling rivers and waterfalls. At the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, thousands of tiny glowworms cling to the cave ceiling, creating a starry sky in the blackness. Waitomo also offers adrenaline-junkies all sorts of cave trips including Black Water Rafting, cave abseiling and caving eco-tours.
To find out more about Otorohanga and Waitomo, click on:
http://www.otorohanga.co.nz/
http://www.otodc.govt.nz/
http://www.kiwianatown.co.nz/
http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/O/Otorohanga/Otorohanga/en
http://www.kiwihouse.org.nz
http://www.waitomo.org.nz/
http://www.waitomo.co.nz/
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