Full house

What started out as a bit of a joke between friends, has resulted in something a little more serious – a beautiful home for the Veysey family, surrounded by great neighbours and their best mates who live upstairs.

When Tori and Brendon Veysey’s good friend Hilly Goodwin, stumbled across a large two-storey home on 1400sqm, with a generous floorspace of 170sqm upstairs and the same downstairs, she sent the Trade Me link to Tori. They laughed about starting a commune with their two families.

Curiosity piqued, they went to an open home to check it out and understand why the price was lower than they expected for such a large home.

“The home was being sold as a four-bedroom house as the downstairs wasn’t consented. But it had eight bedrooms and the property was being rented out as three separate properties in the one house,” says Tori. With the size and the price, the home