New Zealand couple turned abandoned school into home; now asks over NZ$595,000

For years, an old school sat quietly on the edge of Tokanui, a small township in Southland. Then Ian ‘Hippy’ Rogers and his wife, Sue, arrived. They took one look at the school and saw something most people didn’t. The couple knew the neglected property had the potential to become a home.The school at Quarry Hill first opened in the late 1800s, although the building the couple bought dated from 1958. It closed in 1993, and subsequent owners had done little with the property.In 2017, when the couple arrived, hedges had swallowed much of the site. But they weren’t ready to give up. They invested a couple of years in turning the school into a home.