Budget-priced bathing box listed for summer January 2015 auction

There is a budget-priced bathing box for sale on the beach at Edithvale on Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay.

It has $50,000 expectations. And just an hour down the peninsula, there is one on offer at $500,000 plus.

There was a recent sale at nearby Aspendale beach at around $135,000, but it was a bigger offering.

Box 926 on Edithvale beach (pictured above) has been scheduled for auction on 24 January. 

The Ray White Chelsea listing agent Paul Mazur says its price hopes reflect its small size.

The freshly painted beach box comes with double doors and timber decking.

"It has been loved by one family for more than 40 years," Paul Mazur said.

In early 2013 one was for sale located on Dudley Grove, Edithvale – known as boat shed 696 – which had hopes of $69,000 selling in April 2013 through Matthew Marshall from Biggin and Scott Aspendale (pictured below).

Kingston rate payers or Kingston residents only could secure the opportunity.

Edithvale, 28 kilometres south-east of the CBD, has a record $642,500 median house price, according to CoreLogic RP Data.

The name of Edithvale was adopted from Edithvale Road which was the name of the suburb until 1921.

Bathing boxes are aplenty around Port Phillip Bay from Brighton to Portsea. In January 2011 a Portsea box - marketed as a boat shed - set a record $585,000 when five bidders fought for the property at its RT Edgar auction. 

Later this month there is a Portsea auction of a boat shed – number s28 – with $500,000 plus hopes.

With sales regularly tipping above $200,000, Brighton bathing boxes too can only sell to ratepayers.