Bathing box 1 Point King Road, Portsea listed for Australia Day auction
A bathing box built in the early 1960s on Point King Beach at Portsea has hit the market.
The box, with a small deck and steps leading to its entrance, maintains its original wooden features, including a rear bench and shelving.
It has been offered publicly for the first time by Ilze Moran and Warwick Anderson from RT Edgar Portsea.
They have a set a potential guide of $300,000 to $330,000 for bathing box 1 Point King Road at its Australia Day auction.
The most recent sale on the bay was in April last year when one of Brighton's newest beach boxes sold for $337,000.
Another offering further down the Portsea beach is where bathing box number 8 has been listed with a $450,000 to $495,000 guide for its January 20 auction.
Portsea sales have neared $1 million.
The Portsea boatshed was sold for close to $1 million by the Boykett family.
Changing hands for the first time in almost 70 years, boatshed 17 Fisherman’s Bend Foreshore had been listed with an asking range of $910,000 and $1 million in mid-2018.
Kay & Burton secured the sale of the boatshed, which is not connected to power or water.
The buyers were local holidaymakers.
The last Fisherman’s Beach sale by Kay & Burton was in 1991.
The last confirmed record price was when Portsea boat shed 23 fetched a record $615,000 in late 2015.
Set at the foot of the track to Shelley Beach it had been tightly held for over four decades.