FOR SALE: Two-bedroom, one-bathroom house built in the 1980s and well maintained. It has 70sq m of floor space - about twice the size of a two-car garage - on Oxford St in Merivale.
Photos show a lawn with garden shed, enough room for a children's swing set and a carport. And at $164,000, it's the cheapest listed-price house on the Tauranga property market.
The Bay of Plenty Times Weekend has looked at Tauranga's five most expensive and cheapest properties with listed prices - and discovered the Oxford St home is cheapest.
LJ Hooker agent Tanya Dunham, who has the listing, said she was receiving inquiries from every angle, including first-home buyers who realise "they can't buy in top locations and must buy in neighbourhoods where there are a mix of rental homes, elderly plus some private owner occupiers".
Mrs Dunham said other potential buyers were coming from "broken marriages with only half the money to spend". Others had suffered financial hardship and some older couples were moving from areas such as Katikati and Te Puke to be closer to the hospital.