Central London double garage just yards from Selfridges and Oxford Street goes up for sale for £750,000 (but it does come with superfast broadband)
- The parking space is just 10ft wide and 29ft long, enough space for two Minis
- Located in Portman Square in Marylebone, the garage is a leasehold property
- Listed by high-end estate agent Manors, the garage baffled social media users
A double garage in central London just 10ft wide is up for sale for £750,000, leaving house-hunters reeling.
The parking space, which is just yards from Selfridges and Oxford Street, hit the market earlier this month, when it was listed on Rightmove and Manors, a high-end estate agent operating out of Westminster.
Situated under a block of flats and next to other garages, the spot is in the prestigious Portman Square in Marylebone – and there is super-fast broadband of 1000mbps available.
That said, at just over 29ft long, it offers just 303 square feet of space in total, enough to park two Mini Coopers front to back (but only a Bentley and a half!).
Inside, it consists of little more than four white cinderblock walls, a concrete floor and a metal grill door usually seen on old-fashioned lifts.
A double garage in central London has been listed for sale for a whopping £750,000
At 10ft wide and 29ft long, the cinderblock-walled and concrete-floored garage is located in Portman Square in Marylebone
The parking spot is under a block of flats and next to a series of other nondescript garages
One of the walls comes to around hip height, meaning the garage owners would have access to their neighbour’s space and vice versa.
Meanwhile, the eye-watering six-figure sum being asked for is enough to buy an entire hotel in Scotland.
The tenure for this ‘property’ is a leasehold, but there is no charge for ground rent, according to the listing.
The description reads: ‘A double garage space available within this 24-hour portered residential building. On the east side of Portman Square.
‘Moments from the world renown Selfridges store and Oxford Street. Approximate Gross Internal Area 28.1 sq m / 303 sq ft.’
The Manors listing was shared to social media on Friday, December 15, by a baffled house-hunter, stunned by the extortionate price.
Social media users could not believe their eyes, one joking: ‘They’d better include the traffic cone for that kind of price.’
A Reddit user said: ‘Might be funny for you, but its in the location where a person will buy it not eve understanding if its expensive or not’
Another Reddit user asked: ‘Could you just jump that little wall on the left and have access to others’ garages?’
A third Reddit user joked that a ‘soul-sucking landlord parasite’ would try to squeeze bunk beds in to rent it out
Another Reddit user said: ‘They’d better include the traffic cone for that kind of price’
READ MORE: Triangular parking spot just 4.5m wide underneath Harrods goes up for sale for £100,000 – but you’d need to drive Del Boy’s three-wheeler if you want to fit in it
They wrote: ‘£750,000 for 28 sq. m of parking space.’
The post has since received dozens of likes and comments from social media users quick to mock the price of the listing and anyone who would pay that much.
One user said: ‘Might be funny for you, but it’s in the location where a person will buy it not even understanding if it’s expensive or not… and not even caring of that.’
Another added: ‘I’m looking at that and thinking ‘Some soul-sucking landlord parasite will be thinking I can squeeze three sets of bunkbeds in there and rent them out at £100 a week easy’.’
A third commented: ‘I’m probably being thick, but could you just jump that little wall on the left and have access to others’ garages? Doesn’t seem too secure.’
Another added: ‘The people that can afford this space probably have cars that don’t fit in here. Doesn’t even look like 2.5m wide. The Range Rover is like 2.1m.’
A fifth joked: ‘They’d better include the traffic cone for that kind of price.’
Source: Read Full Article
