You know real estate prices are too, too, too high when…
By Never teh Bride…beach huts are going for £60,000.
That princely sum will buy you “The Ark,” which measures a mere 5 meters by 1.8 meters, according to the Daily Mail. For 50 years, the vessel (crafted using reclaimed timber, driftwood, and the upper bits of a grocery van) has stood on the mud flats of Burnham Overy Staithe, near King’s Lynn, Norfolk…and it shows.
Max Sowerby, of Norfolk-based Sowerby’s estate agents, said: “We’re getting strong interest already - generally from people who have second homes in the area.
“Some people who see it say ‘that’s a lot of money for a beach hut’.
“Others say it’s incredibly good value and ‘where else would you find something like that?’. You wouldn’t get permission to build it now.
That’s an incredibly good value these days? Take away the bed and it looks like the inside of my garden shed! Something has definitely got to give and soon.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
You know, looking at the interior, my first thought was, “You know, for less than $120,000, it’s not that bad a deal.”
Of course, on further reflection, it’s an insane price, but living in Southern California tends to skew one’s perspective on housing prices toward insanity.
But it is a really, really nice hut, as huts go.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Seriously?!? No…seriously? Was there even a bathroom there? Yeah, yeah, location and everything, but…seriously?
April 9th, 2008 at 1:08 am
If you think this floating hut is expensive (which it is!), I SOLD MY BEACH HUT AT MUDEFORD SANDBANK FOR £120,000 FOUR YEARS AGO and the buyer demolished it and built a new one on the same footprint. There was nothing wrong with it!