Buying a Hunting Block

Hi everyone.

I've been keen on buying my own slice of what I consider to be paradise! Somewhere I can hunt, fish, just be in the bush away from people.
I'd be purchasing by myself (God willing!!) so I wouldn't have to worry about any agreements with mates or anything like that I guess.
I have absolutely no idea of what sort of responsibilities I'd have if say the block was surrounded by DOC land. Shit would I have any annual costs such as council rates?? like I said I have no freaking idea. Would anyone be able to stare me in the right direction as to where I could get some info please?

Is the spot at big Bay sill for sale.... There been a few chunks of land go out in coastal southern fiordland out past blue cliffs / port Craig. There's a few big blocks for sale on Stewart island.

I'm sure you would have the same rates as anywhere else, local and regional councils.

If I win lotto tonight, I will buy a block and share it with you:D

There was 20 hectares of clear cut pine forest past kaitaia for 80000 dollars. Plant some natives or pine and liberate some deer and you'd be away cheaply

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If you have to have a loan on it, no. Most banks will need 50% deposit on bare land. If you have the cash to buy it outright, save the money and put it into 80,000 chopper rides into the DOC estate instead - you don't have to pay the rates on that :) Unless you make the block commercially viable they are a millstone around your neck that can hamstring you.

Good point there pointer (no pun intended) there are some good looking cheap block in Oz. Hard to say if they'd be an investment to sell when you got too old to hunt it though

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Originally Posted by Maca49

If I win lotto tonight, I will buy a block and share it with you:D

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I'm only sharing with Nose to Tail guys, Hahahahahaha

So...... How'd you do with those numbers mate??

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Originally Posted by Nose to tail

So...... How'd you do with those numbers mate??

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Phones downstairs I'll check in the morning, always better with money and breakfast. I need my sleep tonight!:cool:

Lucks in! I won 31.00 last week, start of a roll!!:D

I reckon if all forum members chucked in a thousand or two we could get a pretty good hunting block (or more)

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Originally Posted by Nose to tail

So...... How'd you do with those numbers mate??

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We were close man! Only missed by SIX!:O_O:

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Originally Posted by Driverman

I reckon if all forum members chucked in a thousand or two we could get a pretty good hunting block (or more)

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And then chase 5000 people for rates, insurance, maintenance repairs pest control etc... would be like a lot of Maori land, 10,000 owners that can't agree on anything and nobody wants to do anything because the masses undo it. Imagine 5000 forum members all thrashing the same spot? Either pay cash and own it freehold yourself, or don't bother - there is fantastic meat and trophy hunting on our public lands.

Find a nice DOC block and just keep applying for permits make a semipermanent bivvy, bury a few plastic screw top drums for storage and youll be ahead of the pack when Armageddon comes.

5000 members and less than 100 deer. from memory doc usually pay half the fencing cost.

Long term lease could be another option

Been a few farms sold around gisborne. They put a manager on it and still run it as a farm but use it as a hunting block ( boundry doc land etc) Also i know of a few forestry blocks that are put under management and only owners are allowed to hunt it.

Yep bigbear is onto it, it has to be viable to pay for itself. Aorangi forest was in trademe for ages, world class hunting around those parts...

https://www.trademe.co.nz/1547758537

I know a someone who bought one in the Ruahines, 10 acres or so that back onto DOC land and he's put a couple of shipping conainers and a lean to on it. No road frontage but right of access through a large farm. Perfect.

He QE2'd it so he doesn't have to pay rates.