Bathing box 1 Point King Road, Portsea listed for Australia Day auction

Bathing box 1 Point King Road, Portsea listed for Australia Day auction
Staff reporterJanuary 10, 2019

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.

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