Once upon a time, when you bought a beach hut you got a colourful wooden box by the seaside with just enough space to shelter from the rain, but now you need £245,000 – enough for a four-bedroom house in many towns.
This beach hut in Shaldon, Devon, is set to become Britain’s most expensive.
Despite measuring just 7m by 1.8m (23ft x 6ft), it has a marble wet room, fitted kitchen, mezzanine bedroom and rear patio.
And there’s underfloor heating, a TV and wireless internet.
Estate agents Fulfords described the hut, one of five for sale, as a ‘luxury apartment’.
Ex-council leader Alan Connett said he ‘never ceased to be amazed’ at how much people would pay for something so small.
He told the Western Morning News: ‘I’m surprised because in the current climate there is not a lot of money about and the people who have it are not splashing it around.
‘It rather shows that the economy is picking up and will appeal to people with the sort of money to buy a posh beach hut.’