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What’s it like to live in Glendowie?

Are you considering a move to Glendowie?

Your home isn’t just a building. The area surrounding it plays a huge part in your day-to-day life, and that of your family – so you need to find the perfect fit.

Property viewings help you get a feel for individual homes, but how can you learn about a suburb as a whole? Well, in addition to walking its streets, this is a question of good old fashioned research.

To help you decide which is the best suburb in Auckland for your next home, we’ll be exploring some of the city’s commonly searched areas, so you can make up your mind on what’s right for you.

This time, we’re taking a closer look at the seaside suburb of Glendowie.

Glendowie ’s property landscape

Average Glendowie property prices:

For the six months to July 31, 2020, Glendowie house prices* looked like this:

House: $2.15 m.
Townhouse: $901,000.
Apartment: $1.13 m.
Unit: $750,670.

Glendowie property types

For the six months to the end of July 31, 2020, Glendowie saw 86 properties listed for sale on Trade Me. These were broken down as follows:

House: 73 listings.
Townhouse: 4 listings.
Apartment: 3 listings.
Unit: 6 listings.

The view from Karaka Bay Beach in Glendowie.

Life in Glendowie

With ocean access, and plenty of green spaces, there’s a lot to love about Glendowie. Here are some of our top picks:

Tahuna Torea Reserve: this spectacular 25ha reserve takes you from the edge of the residential area to the edge of the ocean. At low tide, it’s possible to walk out to the end of the sandspit that tails out from the reserve.
Churchill Park: another fantastic green space, and somewhere that allows you to totally forget you’re still in Auckland. Complete with winding streams and grazing cattle, this is a great place to take the family or enjoy some serenity.
Karaka Bay beach: this peaceful little beach is a fantastic spot to sit, relax, and watch the boats come and go. Talking of the boats, the Glendowie Boating Club is a popular place for kids to learn to sail, and there’s always plenty of boats and wind surfers out when the conditions are right.

Getting around

For commuters into the CBD who want to avoid the rush hour traffic, one option is the train station in nearby Glen Innes. From here, there are just two stops before Britomart, making for an easy and efficient commute.

In addition to this, there are a number of bus routes taking passengers both to the city and other Auckland suburbs.

Schools in Glendowie

There are also plenty of schooling options for young families considering a move to Glendowie. These include

Glendowie Primary School: 217 Riddell Road.
Churchill Park School: Kinsale Avenue.
Glendowie College: 21 Crossfield Road.
St. Heliers School: 126-160 Saint Heliers Bay Road

If you want to know more about individual properties within Glendowie, try our free Property Insights tool. This interface allows you to view records, rateable values (RVs), estimates and recent sales for over 1.5 million NZ properties, as well as tracking how these values change over time.

* All data is for the six months to 31 July 2020, and is derived from properties listed on Trade Me Property. Average house prices are mean prices for the suburb over the same time period.

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