So much for Australia’s falling housing prices! Tiny apartment in Melbourne hits the market for $450 a week – but you’ll have to cook in the GARAGE and enter through the bathroom
- Studio apartment at Richmond in Melbourne joined kitchen with garage
- To get to bedroom and living room visitors needed to walk through bathroom
- The property was listed on Domain and asked tenants for hefty $450 a week
- Domain tore down the listing following backlash and anger from councillor
A real estate website has torn down a listing for a studio apartment that combined its garage with the kitchen after asking for more than $400 a week in rent.
Domain was forced to take action after the Dickens Street property in Richmond, Melbourne received heated backlash over the layout of the house on Thursday.
The kitchen in the one-bedroom apartment had been combined with the garage, and that in itself was bigger than the living space.
The front door lead into the bathroom and then on to the combined living room and bedroom, unless you decided to walk through the garage.
A real estate website has torn down a listing for a studio apartment that combined its garage with the kitchen (pictured) after asking for more than $400 a week in rent
Domain tore down the listing for the Dickens Street property in Richmond, Melbourne following heated backlash over the layout of the house on Thursday
‘Enforcement officers from Yarra City council had visited the property and told the owner that the apartment was not compliant as a rental property, according to councillor Stephen Jolly
Cramped layout aside, there was more reason for people to get angry at the listing – renters were asking for a hefty $450 a week from prospective tenants.
Real estate agents Hocking Stuart described it as: ‘Whatever your lifestyle, this property will tick all the boxes.’
‘This rental listing is a clear demonstration that the housing system is broken,’ Greens member for Melbourne Adam Bandt wrote to Consumer Affairs Victoria.
‘I do not believe that is acceptable in our community that renters are being forced to cook where they park their car.’
Enforcement officers from Yarra City council had visited the property and told the owner that the apartment was not compliant as a rental property, according to councillor Stephen Jolly.
The councillor went on to call the place a ‘middle-class ghetto’ and said public housing was more ‘spacious to live in’.
Cr Jolly said the owner told the enforcement officers the listing was old and should not have been listed.
To note, the kitchen in the one-bedroom apartment had been combined with the garage, and that in itself was bigger than the living space
After going through the front door, visitors would have to walk through the bathroom before they stepped foot in the combined living room and bedroom
Cramped layout aside, there was more reason for people to get angry at the listing – renters were asking for a hefty $450 a week from prospective tenants
‘The owner was told there was no way they could have renters or boarders there,’ Cr Jolly told The Age.
And Cr Jolly isn’t the only person who thinks that way, with social media users also slamming the listing.
‘Living situation in Melbourne is grim, grim I tell ya,’ one person tweeted.
Another tweeted: ‘OMG! $450/wk for a garage masquerading as a studio/1BR LOL.’
Real estate agents Hocking Stuart described it as: ‘Whatever your lifestyle, this property will tick all the boxes
‘This rental listing is a clear demonstration that the housing system is broken,’ Greens member for Melbourne Adam Bandt wrote to Consumer Affairs Victoria