In fairness, it’s only £25,000, but considering it was listed as a one bedroom residential property…

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This is just a beach hut on the South coast of the UK - probably somewhere near Bournemouth. They’re pretty common - usually hired out for a day or so, to let you chill out by the sea with some shelter. I imagine buying one of these and renting it out is pretty lucrative.

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Yes I know. But it was listed as a one bedroom house, which it decidedly is not.

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The answer to that is probably because there’s no suitable category for this property on the site.

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I thought this was a porta-potty.

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I don’t understand what is embarrassing about this?

Looks like a reasonably photographed, reasonably described, reasonably priced vacation property.

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Your being downvoted but you’re right.

This is essentially like buying an rv parking spot on the lakeside in a campground. Taking my family to the beach would be a whole lot less of a ball ache if I knew I had my spot, with the buckets and spades and frisbees and towels and shit already there. Somewhere to sit and get out of the sun, no taking giant umbrellas or folding gazebos and stuff.

If I were moderately wealthy this would be a nice thing to have.

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One you’re explicitly banned from staying overnight in. No plumbing, no electric. Extremely restrictive covenants. Very high service charges.

They have a charm, and one wouldn’t expect them to be cheap, but £25,000 is plain daft.

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What do these generally cost?

Everyone is telling me £25k is nuts, but nobody seems to know what it’s actually worth.

I’ve seen parking spaces sell for more.

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£25k is about normal for these huts.

Also crazy with parking spaces, though in some locations & use patterns, would come in a lot cheaper than paying for parking adhoc.

This is not the case for beach huts, as you can sit on the beach for free.

It might be tempting if you have kids who are into watersports, but it isn’t secure enough to store expensive equipment so you might still be into hauling that on and off the beach every time, most beach hut rules do not permit you to store small sailing boats (lasers, dinghys, etc.) and many don’t permit storage of anything except in the summertime. It is common for these to have tight restrictions on your disposal of the hut by sale or in a will & on what you must do in the event it is washed away in a storm or vandalised.

So you have a shed on a very busy, stony beach, which you can’t do much with, anc which will have high ongoing costs. If people find £25k an acceptable price, that’s up to them, but it is crazy.

Anyhow, I believe the ad was posted here because it was listed as a one-bedroom house, which it objectively is not. If you’re caught sleeping in your hut, you’ll find it repossessed very fast, and yes - they do check.

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It’s a changeing shed listed as a one bedroom house for £25,000. I’m not sure what’s reasonable about that.

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Isn’t that the going rate?

What is the normal market price for a beach hut?

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I’m honestly not sure what the typical asking price is for a changing booth, but it’s definitely not a one bedroom house.

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This is one of those British changing booths where everyone has their own changing booth for some reason. Which is why the front is made of windows.

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Bubbles?

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