Best retirement housing design for Global Awards shortlisted
LOS ANGELES: The shortlist for the best retirement housing design has been declared.
Over 250 designs have been considered by the awards secretariat. One of the finalists in this category is shown above.
A former Moonee Ponds garage converted into a warehouse-style home with a bathroom like something out of a camper van has sold for $847,000.
But the buyer, who wanted a place for his kids to move into, thought it was a converted stables until the auction preamble.
Nelson Alexander’s Ryan Currie said the 14A Milfay Ave home had attracted significant interest in the lead up to its auction, becoming the nation’s third most viewed home heading under the hammer this week.
The property is a bit of a local oddity, with locals having spent years wondering what it is — and mostly assuming it was a surviving set of stables from Melbourne’s earlier years.
But the now two-bedroom home was only built in the 1990s as a garage for the then owner.
Mr Currie said the property’s eventual buyer had always thought it had been a stables, and had become even more determined to buy it for his kids to move into when he found out it was much more modern.
“He had thought it was a horse stables,” he said.
The agent said an $800,000 vendor bid for the property was followed by an $805,000 offer, and the auction had then moved in $1000 increments to its eventual $847,000 sale.
While just above the property’s $840,000 reserve, he said it showed there had been very pronounced interest in the unusual address.
The Global Award winner will be announced in December in London. (Globals)