ONE of Melbourne’s smallest addresses is likely to draw one of its biggest crowds when the first beach box sale of the summer takes over Brighton Beach on February 7.
Beach Box 28, Esplanade, at the southern end of the Dendy St beach boxes, is selling for the first time this decade.
The vendors, a Brighton family, bought the “all original” box about 15 years ago, when the average price of a box was “about $12,000”, Hocking Stuart agent Kate Strickland said.
She said the 3.5m by 5m weatherboard box had “no special features” but it did have a sofa bed, a table that extended from the wall and an oar decoration on the wall.
“It is definitely old school, a beach box ready for someone to put their stamp on,” Ms Strickland said.
Hocking Stuart last sold a Brighton beach box in summer 2007, for $200,000.
“There have been heaps of inquiry but these boxes never go before auction because it’s the kind of thing that must sell under competition,” she said.
“We’ve had inquiries from people in Florida but, of course, we must sell it to someone paying bayside rates, so that tends to rule out the overseas parties.”
Ms Strickland said she’d be on the beach every Friday night and Saturday afternoon in January, hosting open for inspections.
The yellow and blue bathing box is quoted to sell for “high $100s to low $200s”.
