A newly completed Queenstown mansion has hit the rental property market and is being described as ''stratospherically expensive''.
The Copper House, owned by Australian food importer Roy Manassen, has been listed for short-term rental for $20,000 a night.
If that is not intimidating enough, you have to actually book it for at least five nights.
According to the Touch of Spice Private Villa Collection website, it is ''not only the largest villa available for short-term luxury rental in the Queenstown region, it is also the most luxurious''.
The six-bedroom 1100sq m house, thought to have cost more than $10million to build, includes a children's wing with six bunk beds, cinema room, wine cellar, spa, gym and outdoor pool.
Features include a copper-lined exterior, large outdoor entertaining area with a green wall, twisted schist stone walls, works of art and a ground source heat pump system.
The Australian Financial Review Magazine recently included The Copper House among a collection of six ''designer rentals'', calling it ''the most dazzling rental in Queenstown'' and ''stratospherically expensive''.
The house was built for Australian food importer and Business Review Weekly Rich 200 lister Roy Manassen, who commissioned Arrowtown's Anna-Marie Chin, of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Chin Architects, as the main architect and interior designer.
Construction was handled by local brothers Paul and Peter Rogers, along with Brian Hill, while Queenstown's LAND Landscape Architects designed the garden.
Local company Civil Construction won a national award for the site works which included a 65m-long retaining wall.
Touch of Spice owner Jacqui Spice calls it ''a real rock-star kind of property''.
''I guess I like the fact it's a real statement. It takes up that whole side of Aspen Grove.
''Inside it you've got the best views in Queenstown and incredible privacy.''
Spice says from an international point of view it is not too pricey to rent.
''The owner himself when he travels to Europe pays upward of $100,000 a week to stay in a pretty flash place.''
Spice says she has had a lot of inquiries for The Copper House, although no bookings so far.
''We've had people really close to it and then they've decided to go somewhere like Dubai.
''We had a big lead for New Year for some clients but they couldn't get the flights into New Zealand.''
- Mountain Scene
by Philip Chandler
