The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

The property at 117 Akers Rd, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

A 5-acre Manawatu property with lifestyle potential, consisting of two titles, and with plenty of storage is being sold for two-thirds of its value.

The catch? A murdered man's body was stashed there for more than a week.

The Linton property where Whetu Hansen was shot, and his body stored, was put on the market in the past week through LJ Hooker.

GRANT MATTHEW / FAIRFAX Police file out the gate of 117 Akers Rd, Linton in 2013. The property, where Whetu Hansen was murdered, is for sale.

Hansen was murdered on November 24, 2013, at the Akers Rd property. His body has never been found.

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Neil Raymond Swain was found guilty of his murder after a three-week jury trial in 2015, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years.

MURRAY WILSON/FAIRFAX NZ Neil Raymond Swain was found guilty of murdering Whetu Hansen.

Swain, who is appealing the verdict, never denied that Hansen was murdered on his property, or that he kept the body in one of the many sheds there for 11 days before getting it sealed in a drum.

But he denied the Crown's version of events - that he shot Hansen with a modified .22 rifle, then scouted various locations before deciding to dump the body in the Whanganui River.

In a secretly recorded jailhouse conversation between Swain and a friend on March 2, 2014, which was played to the jury at Swain's trial, Swain said the property was owned by a family trust.

Swain told the friend, who has name suppression, that the mortgage on the property was $200,000 in arrears.

"We paid 280 for it, it's probably got a resale, if the house was nice and good and everything," he said.

"Know anybody who wants to buy the place?".

There is no mention of the murder in the listing, but real estate agents are required to tell potential buyers about a property's bloody past.

LJ Hooker agent Tracie Van Rysewyk did not want to comment, but the listing for the property begins by saying it is being sold $100,000 below its capital value of $350,000.

It then goes on to promote the "quiet setting" created by fully established tree plantations, and the fact it was an opportunity for "all serious handymen wanting to live the lifestyle dream".

The listing includes references to the sheds, which Swain's trial heard were used to store Hansen's body and blood-stained car after the murder.

"Loads of space, loads of sheds", the listing states.

"Bring the truck and digger."

Swain also had other friends who kept property, mainly car and car parts, in the ex-poultry farm sheds.

The dead body was never taken into the three-bedroom house on the property, which has an office and deck.

"Bring back to life the once great sunny entertainers deck," the listing states.

The timing of the property listing was possibly better timed than the last time a house where someone was murdered went on sale in Manawatu.

The house where Christine and Amber Lundy were bludgeoned to death in 2000 was put on the market during Mark Lundy's 2015 retrial for the murders.

The house was taken off the market after a week, but is believed to have sold since.