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Courtesy Barnard Marcus Auctions
A London stairwell is being sold at auction, with an asking price of NZ$40,000
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Look, New Zealand has its fair share of real estate shockers – a literal shed in Wellington’s Aro Valley being advertised as a rental property for $200 a week, for example.
How about the Wellington studio bedsit being rented out for $420 a week? Or the underground Wellington flat (why does it always seem to be Wellington?) being unfavourably compared to ‘something from (the movie) Parasite’?
But you’d be struggling to find someone in Wellington with the brazenness, the unabashed chutzpah, of London’s Barnard Marcus Auctions.
For the low, low price of NZ$40,000 you could purchase yourself … a disused four-storey stairwell in south-west London.
Described as having ‘hope value’ and ‘development potential’, an online video tour of the property paints what you might generously describe as a bleak picture: several cardboard boxes are scattered around the dusty stairwells, along with a concerningly high number of fire extinguishers.
Halfway through the video a disembodied bed-head appears out of nowhere, like a nightmarish apparition from a David Lynch vignette.
While a vision for the property isn’t immediately clear, its location is undeniably first-rate: potential buyers speculate online that the tall, narrow building could be converted into office pods or something similar.
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