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Could this be Sydney’s cheapest waterfront property?
Right on a sandy beach, with absolutely stunning 270-degree views out to the water in a quiet corner of southern Sydney, it’s priced at just $350,000.
“It’s a little slice of waterfront heaven,” says owner Matt Short. “And it’s in a real blue-ribbon suburb in an area where houses are normally extremely expensive.”
2C Hazel Place, Burraneer, one of three boatsheds in a row on the north shore of Port Hacking estuary.
And the downside? It doesn’t have any power or running water, it’s on a 92-square-metre patch, has an interior space of just nine square metres, and is rather better known as a heritage-listed weatherboard boatshed.
But that shouldn’t deter anyone, Short believes. “I don’t think there’s anything to stop someone building onto it and living there,” he says.
“It’s zoned residential, and you could easily put solar panels on the roof to provide power, which would save you the trouble of having power run down there.
The heritage-listed weatherboard boatshed at 2C Hazel Place, Burraneer has an interior space of just nine square metres.
“We’ve also had an architect draw up plans of building on to the back, which would make it a very nice little beach shack on blue-ribbon waterfront. It would be a great place for living the dream.”
The boatshed has a 5.3-metre frontage onto Gunnamatta Bay in Burraneer, directly opposite Cronulla, in an area with a median price of $1.75 million. Currently used for dinghy and jet ski storage and for barbecues on the beach, it had its own pier before that was swept away in a massive storm in the 1990s.
Short bought it with a business partner in 1998 for $80,000, intending to develop it for the use of their seven daughters.
The owners of 2C Hazel Place, Burraneer have had an architect draw up plans of building onto the back.
But they never got around to it, their daughters all grew up and left home, and now he’s too busy with his work, running the nearby Yowie Bay Marina as well as customs broking and international freight.
“We had grand plans to turn it into our own little playground,” says Short, 60. “But then I bought a commercial marina a couple of bays up and I’ve just been letting friends use it. But now we’ve decided the time is right to let it go.”
The sale of the property at 2C Hazel Place, one of three boatsheds in a row on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary in the Sutherland Shire, is being handled by agency Sale By Owner. Director Colin Sacks says there have been many inquiries.
“It’s a very interesting property,” he says. “We sell all kinds of property, but this is probably the cheapest waterfront property around. People have great imaginations and I think someone could do something very special with this.”
Short admits he’ll be extremely sad to see it go. “It’s heavenly right there on the waterfront in a prestigious location with serene water access,” he says.
“It could give someone perhaps already living in a non-waterfront house in the area their own satellite waterfront property, owning a slice of history in the Port.”
The boatshed at 2C Hazel Place, Burraneer has a 5.3-metre frontage onto Gunnamatta Bay.
2C Hazel Place, Burraneer is zoned residential and ripe for an imaginative buyer to develop into a beach house.
