The home that helped start a childhood cancer research foundation has been put up for sale, after the owners’ family lost one of their own to a rare and under-researched disease.
Gail and her daughter Rachael Everett own the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 848/43 Hercules St, Hamilton. It’s where the family celebrated the launch of the Fartsicorn Foundation, which aims to give faster treatment options for kids dealing with rare cancers.
848/43 Hercules St, Hamilton, the home that helped launch a new cancer research foundation, is going up for auction at the end of March.
Mackenzie Everett was diagnosed with a rare cancer called hepatoblastoma, and passed away in 2025. The Fartsicorn Foundation, named after her two favourite things, was started to help connect families with researchers when going through similarly rare diseases.
The foundation was made in July 2025 by Steven and Kerrin Everett, to help their daughter Mackenzie after she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma in 2023.
Mackenzie, who passed away in September of 2025, helped name the foundation after two of her favourite things: unicorns and farts.
Rachael Everett, Mackenzie’s aunt, said her home was a safe haven for Mackenzie and her brother Sam.
“It was where Mackenzie and Sam had sleepovers and where so many of our memories were made,” she said. “There is so much love within these walls.”
The home was once a place where Mackenzie and her brother Sam would have sleepovers in Mackenzie’s last years.
From left to right: Steven Everett, Samuel Everett, Rachael Everett, Gail Everett and Mackenzie Everett, the family behind the foundation.
Mackenzie’s grandmother Gail said the unit was designed to be a forever home near her family, along with a means of helping her daughter enter the property market.
“When we lost Mackenzie, everything changed,” she said. “We’re now beginning a new chapter focused on our family and continuing the foundation’s work.”
The two-level home, which features separated living spaces for multiple residents, is being sold through Place Ascot agents Thomas and Rhiannon Coussens.
Gail and Rachael Everett are planning to leave what they thought could be a forever home for Gail, while continuing the Fartsicorn Foundation’s work.
The unit will be going to auction on March 27 with Place Ascot.
While the unit is expected to sell at auction on March 27, Rachael Everett said the family planned to take the memories made there and continue their work.
“After Kenzie passed, we didn’t want Fartsicorn to become a memory,” she said. “We want it to be a movement. We want it to mean that when a family is told there’s nothing else available, that might not actually be true.”
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