54 Arran Bay Road, Arran Bay, Auckland

Don’t just dream about stepping off your deck and walking a few paces onto a private beach. Do it every morning from this absolute waterfront, beach house, standing on a 1077 square metre, near flat site, with direct access to boat ramp and legal access to a shared jetty. The boat ramp is also shared, but happens to be directly in front this property.

Move in here and you’ll be part of an exclusive coastal community with only 18 residents. The breathtaking views across to Rotoroa, Ponui and Coromandel really are all yours, because there’s a locked gate at top of driveway where only the home owners and their guests can enter.

As well as the glorious, safe swimming beach, you can enjoy relaxed open plan living. So open, in fact, that the lounge doors fold right back to make the outside deck areas as much a superb living space as your inside. Breakfast on the upper deck each morning and dine on the lower deck each night. And if it’s your turn to wash up, even that’s a treat with the views from kitchen sink you have here.

Inside is as relaxing as outside, with a modern stainless steel topped kitchen leading off the expansive open plan lounge and dining room. The generous bedrooms are light and airy too. Outside there’s room for a couple of guests in the neat converted garage sleep-out next to the house. There’s plenty of room to park the boat in the garden too and, not surprisingly, this is boaties’ paradise. In fact, the current owners won this year’s annual Arran Bay fishing competition. And they’ve got the cup to prove it.

This is a very special part of the island, almost a hidden secret, with fewer properties and rarely do they come up for sale. “Never again will you be able to buy a property in Arran Bay at a price as low as this,” says the vendor.