The seaside city of Southwold is such a fascinating location to personal property even its seaside huts promote for as much as £200,000.
This summer season, Categorical.co.uk travelled to the picturesque vacation spot the place guests marvelled at Southwold’s “quaint… seaside really feel”.
Peter and Marion Hollister, 80 and 74 respectively, determined to pop into the quaint city on the best way dwelling to Brighton for the “nostalgia” the place boasts. Peter first visited in 1963.
Their sense that Southwold operates in one other time was shared by virtually all of the locals and guests this web site spoke to, none extra so than 77-year-old Monica Gerhold.
Sat in her rented seaside hut, whereas her household performed on the sand beneath, she beamed: “All people appears to be household oriented. There’s not lots of litter. You’re kind of completely satisfied to go away the door open; there’s hardly any crime.
Very like Peter and Marion, Monica concurred that the city was “prefer it was” in the remainder of the UK.
Referencing her white seaside hut, aptly carrying the message “take it simple” over the door, Monica stated: “We hire this one. We’ve had it for 3 years and it’s completely marvellous. However most seaside huts are simply handed down from technology to technology. They’re about £100,000 now. It’s essential to be very wealthy [to buy one].”
Monica was appropriate that solely the rich can afford to buy Southwold’s seaside huts, however she was solely half proper when she stated potential patrons want £100,000 to personal one.
Categorical.co.uk spoke to 2 separate native property brokers, neither of whom wished to be named, and every of them revealed that the wood huts, that are “concerning the dimension of a small summer season home”, fetch between £70,000 and £200,000.
One of many property brokers, located a number of a whole bunch yards from the seafront, stated: “In 2022 we offered a seaside hut on North Seashore and that accomplished for £85,000.
“Seashore Hut 100, in order that’s on kind of North Parade – that accomplished in 2021 for £175,000… one which offered on Gun Hill… we offered one there in 2021 for £200,000.”
Regardless of the lofty costs, the huts aren’t well-equipped.
“A few of them are larger than others. They’ll differ”, the agent stated. “They’ve often obtained somewhat veranda, double doorways on. They’re concerning the dimension of a small summer season home, I suppose. You possibly can’t sleep in them in a single day. They don’t have water, they don’t have energy.”
The opposite property agent, discovered additional inland up the Excessive Avenue, agreed that the huts are compact. “They’re not a lot larger than a backyard shed to be honest”, she stated. “Definitely those on Gun Hill… a few of them are tiny.”
Regardless of the eye-watering costs, the huts go like sizzling desserts, stated the seafront agent: “There’s a requirement. We often do sealed bids.”
In addition to the seaside huts, residential and vacation properties go for greater than wholesome costs too.
Requested for her most cost-effective properties, the Excessive Avenue agent stated: “I’ve obtained a one-bed flat [at] £285,000. One at £295,000. I’ve obtained a two-bed flat at £450,000.”
“You wouldn’t anticipate something to return up in Southwold beneath £275,000.”
Her most costly property? “The largest one we offered was £2.8m final yr. That was a giant one.” You do not say.