Melissa Wilton - Hartles & Co.

18/09/2026

4 bedrooms, beautiful character features and zoned for Boys' High, this gorgeous home is coming to market early next week and will absolutely be one to watch 👀

17/09/2026

I helped Emma sell her parents' home a few years before, and when it came time to sell her own, she chose me again 🤍

Fun fact: I grew up in Te Awamutu, so this one felt close to home for me too 📍

It ended up going to multi offer, and the couple who won it were an absolute pleasure: warm, straightforward, genuinely excited from the moment they walked through the open home. First home buyers themselves, stepping into exactly the kind of beginning Emma once had.

One home, two chapters, and huge congratulations to you both! 🎉

04/09/2026

The real test of a kitchen isn't how it looks empty. It's Christmas, with three things in the oven and snacks taking up the entire bench.

The kitchen at 44 Te Huia Drive holds up to that. It sits open to both the dining and the living, so you're never stuck out of the conversation while you cook. And when it all gets away on you, there's a scullery behind it with its own sink, ready to take everything you don't want anyone looking at.

You can have twenty people over and still have a kitchen you're happy to stand in. That's not a small thing. That's how a house earns its keep.

An acceptable offer has come in, so the deadline for 44 Te Huia Drive has moved forward to Tuesday 8th September at 2pm.

If you want a chance of owning it, join me this there this weekend at an open home or private viewing 🏡

https://www.hartlesandco.co.nz/current-listings/44-te-huia

03/09/2026

There are some sales that stay with you well after the paperwork is signed, and this is one of them.

"Melissa kept us informed throughout the entire process, was always available to answer our questions, and went above and beyond to make everything as smooth and stress-free as possible."

Handing over a family home is a big thing to trust someone with. That part is never lost on me, no matter how many times I do this.

Thank you to this family for letting me walk it with them, and for words like these 💛

01/09/2026

Every corner of 44 Te Huia Drive has been touched. Not lightly, either.

The kitchen was rebuilt properly: engineered stone waterfall benchtop, an induction cooktop, double wall oven, soft close drawers and beautiful tiling. European oak floors run the full length of the living spaces, and custom barn doors close everything off when it needs closing.

Out back, the backyard got a heated mineral pool with an integrated cover. Extensive decking and beautiful landscaping create a private sanctuary. Even the old fifth bedroom has a new job now: it's the walk-in wardrobe.

This is what happens when a renovation is done with real care, not just a fresh coat of paint.

https://www.hartlesandco.co.nz/current-listings/44-te-huia

01/09/2026

49 groups through in under two weeks, a multi offer campaign, and a buyer who knew after one viewing they wanted it. That's what a market ready presentation and the right buyers in the room can do.

A lovely family, off to their next chapter in Christchurch (we even phone bid together for their new home along the way). Grateful they trusted the process every step of the way!

This pocket has such a great sense of community, and it showed in the interest. We've still got buyers keen for one just like it, so if a move is on your mind, we might already know someone looking for exactly what you've got 👀🏡

26/08/2026

You know within about ten seconds of walking into a house whether it's going to make room for you. 44 Te Huia Drive does it almost immediately 🏡

The ceilings lift, the light pours in from all directions, and the whole place just opens up and welcomes you in.

It's a home that assumes people will come over. That someone will stay for dinner and end up staying for dessert too. That the kids will claim one living room and the adults the other, and everyone will be exactly where they want to be.

This is a home that knows how to hold a family 💛

https://www.hartlesandco.co.nz/current-listings/44-te-huia

26/08/2026

26/08/2026

There's a unit number on the letterbox, but nothing about 3/17 Walter Street feels shared 🏡

Your own driveway to pull into. Your own patch of ground to potter around on. Your own freehold title, full stop. No body corporate, no shared access, no one else's decisions to work around, just yours.

Inside you've got three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an internal access garage, with 108sqm of easy, low-fuss living tucked onto a 289sqm corner section. Brick and linea outside, double glazed and fully insulated, with a heat pump and DVS system doing the quiet work of keeping it comfortable all year round.

It's vacant, so the timeline is genuinely yours. Move when it suits your life, not someone else's settlement date.

Freehold, finished, and ready whenever you are 📍

https://www.hartlesandco.co.nz/current-listings/3-17-walter-street