If you’ve got £440,000 burning a hole in your pocket you’ve got some options.
You could buy a five-bed detached house in Rothwell, Northamptonshire – with change to spare. Or, how about this three-bed masionette in Bristol?
Alternatively, you could snap up this humble beach hut for the same price, that has no mains electricity and a communal toilet.
The wooden cabin is on the exclusive Mudeford sandbank in Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, and has amazing sea views towards the Isle of Wight.
Cars are banned from the strip of land which is only accessible by a 20 minute walk, a ride on a land train or a short ferry trip across the harbour.
But while it might be set in a stunning location, it does have some faults.
The property, Hut 297, has no private toilet or mains electricity. The new owners will have to share a communal toilet and shower block with other hut owners.
However, the hut is surprisingly roomy. It can sleep up to eight people.
It does have solar panels on the roof to provide some electricity and a full-size cooker connected to a gas bottle.
There is also a 100-litre water tank with heater for running water and it has double glazed doors and windows.
The hut has a fully fitted kitchen, a living room area with seating that converts into extra beds and a mezzanine level that can sleep five.
In front it has a small deck that leads directly onto the sandy beach and there is storage underneath the hut.
Hut 297 has been owned by the same family since they bought it off the local council in the 1970s or ’80s for a four figure sum.
Since then prices for the 360 seaside cabins on the remote sandy peninsula have soared in value.
In 2002 they were selling for £70,000. By 2005 they were up to £135,000 and then £270,000 by 2014. In 2020 they were worth about £350,000.
Andrew Denison, of estate agents Denisons, which is selling the hut, said he doesn’t expect it to hang around for long.
He said: ‘We have a retained list of prospective buyers and have had interest in it already.
‘The huts that have come on the market this year have sold quickly and I don’t imagine this one will hang around for too long.
‘It is in really good order and is in a nice location, facing the beach and the sea.
‘A beach hut at Mudeford isn’t a seasonal purchase. People buy them all year round and look ahead for staycation holidays.”
As well as paying out the asking price, the new owners will also have to stump up about £4,500 a year to the local council in fees.
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