"It's put most people off to be fair," Mr Heron said.
Mr Heron said the 140sqm, three-bedroom and one-bathroom house had a spacious living room and "reasonably" tidy inside. "It's a lot bigger than it looks," he said.
Te Aroha has had a boom in house sales with average prices rising from $270,000 last year to $280,000 this year.
Last year, 145 houses were sold in the area, compared with 72 in 2014.
Mr Heron said this was because of the soaring prices of Auckland's property market.
"Last year, 40 to 50 per cent of houses were sold to people coming in from Auckland," he said.