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Four hours from Auckland, New Zealand developer Peter Cooper’s 400 ha Mountain Landing property boasts white sand beaches, native bush and historical value. “When I first saw the property, I knew that it was a very special place and then I subsequently grew to understand why, in terms of its unique role in New Zealand’s pre-European and early European history,” Mr. Cooper said. He has registered 43 archaeological sites and areas with the New Zealand Archaeological Association and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Cooper is selling sections of this land for between US$1.7 and 5.5 million, building his own home amongst the 44 residences that will eventually make up the development on the remote beachhead at the tip of Purerua Peninsula.