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The weatherboard home at 6 Cecil St, Frankston, is on the market following a fireplace.
A hearth-damaged Frankston home listed as a standout alternative to renovate or develop might promote for greater than $1m.
The five-bedroom weatherboard house at 6 Cecil St has a $950,000-$1.045m vary.
OBrien Frankston’s Luke Magree mentioned he believed the blaze had been began by Christmas tree decorations, roughly a 12 months in the past. Happily, no-one was harm within the fireplace.
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Mr Magree mentioned the house’s proprietor of greater than a decade hoped the circa-1950 home could be bought by somebody wanting to revive it, however he was additionally anticipating loads of traders, renovators and builders as a result of 1000sq m block measurement.
Inside 48 hours of the abode being listed, traders from as distant as Sydney had contacted him concerning the residence along with different consumers together with somebody hoping to renovate and flip the house.
The deal with inside the Frankston Secondary School zone can also be prone to attraction to households.
Parklands together with the George Pentland Botanical Gardens, hospitals, Foot St retailers, bus routes, Monash College and Frankston’s CBD are all close by too.
The home is ready on a 1000sq m land parcel.
The residence was beforehand a household house.
Mr Magee described the house as a uncommon providing within the native space.
“It’s most likely in the most effective a part of Frankston bar the seashore entrance and it’s simply flat, usable land in
blue-chip Frankston, smack-bang in the midst of every thing in the highschool zone,” Mr Magee mentioned.
The house’s unique format included a number of residing zones round a central kitchen.
The block might probably be developed with models or townhouses, topic to council approval.
This hearth-impacted home at 187 Somerville Rd, Yarraville, offered for $770,000 in July 2025. Nicholas Scott Actual Property Yarraville marketed the property.
Mr Magee mentioned the itemizing represented an excellent alternative to demolish the prevailing residence and construct three or 4 giant townhouses on the block, topic to council approval.
Or, on tough estimates, he mentioned renovating the home might probably price a minimal $150,000 with a bigger $300,000-$400,000 invoice if the brand new proprietor wished to go all out.
“The lounge the place the fireplace occurred, that entrance front room is already again on the body,” Mr Magee mentioned.
A hearth-affected interval home in regional Victoria at 205 Montgomery St, Lake Bolac, modified arms for $125,000 in March 2025.
Ray White Ararat’s director Adam Walker had the itemizing.
Realestate.com.au listings present a half dozen different fire-damaged houses offered throughout Victoria all through 2025.
In August, a Thomastown house the place a blaze had occurred fetched $660,000.
The earlier month, a three-bedroom Yarraville home with a fire-affected kitchen and household room modified arms for $770,000.
Named Kardinia, this fire-damaged thee-bedroom home at 4 Kelsall St, Warracknabeal, offered for $100,000 in Could 2025.
Elders Warracknabeal managed the gross sales marketing campaign.
A interval Warracknabeal home the place the entrance veranda and lounge room have been burned by a conflagration modified arms for $100,000 in Could.
Within the state’s Western District, a circa-1914 former schoolteacher’s home in Lake Bolac which had skilled a fireplace offered for $125,000 in early 2025.
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