Motuketekete island

The multi-million dollar property has been held in the same family for 116 years.

Iguana Island, 20km off the coast of Nicaragua, came on the market for just over NZ$660,000. The owners of treeless, wind-swept Pladda Island, about 1km off the Isle of Arran, were accepting offers over £350,000, or NZ$678,000 – almost $172,000 under [Aotearoa New Zealand’s $850,000 median house price](https://www.reinz.co.nz/residential-property-data-gallery), for the former lighthouse facility. [One of just 14 sections on little-known Jackett Island, ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/128216542/could-you-live-on-this-secret-island-that-even-some-locals-dont-know-about) [just off Motueka, came on the market](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/128216542/could-you-live-on-this-secret-island-that-even-some-locals-dont-know-about) in 2022. "I don't think we're going to see something like this on the market again, because there's quite frankly, not many privately owned Islands in the Hauraki Gulf.” Bennett says it’s a property for “someone who wants something a bit rugged, but absolutely beautiful, that they can make their own”. [Hauraki’s Pakatoa Island was on the market again, this time for $40 million](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/76897530/private-island-in-manukau-up-for-sale). * In Manukau, a tiny dollop of a motu came on the market in 2016. It’s powered by a generator, and rainwater is collected. A slightly warmer option came on the market earlier this year. The 23.88-hectare motu, nestled between Moturekareka and Kawau Islands just off the coast of Mahurangi East, is about a 15-minute helicopter ride north of Auckland. At the time owned by businessman John Ramsay, of Crusader Meats fame, the island has been a resort, a party centre, a rehab retreat for alcoholic women and a private family get-away for the Ramsay family.