Real Beachside Living in Brighton

Everyone wants to live by the beach.  And, in Brighton, Victoria you can own a building that's right on the sand.


You see there are 82 beach boxes at Brighton that the local council sells (by a long term licence) to private owners to store things in and use when they enjoy the beach on Port Phillip Bay.


Victorian era morality meant that bathing and enjoying the seashore was a demure pass time and, as a result of this, bathing boxes emerged in Australia, England, France and Italy and have survived in many locations to this day.

In Brighton they're brightly coloured and together make for a uniquely attractive beach front.  There's a Brighton Beach Box Association with its own website.  And, recently some of the beach boxes have sold for more than $200,000 as this article by Jonathan Chancellor in The Property Observer explains.  And, there's a few more for sale.

Apart from how quaint they are.  They demonstrate how many interesting and unique form of property ownership can exist to meet the needs of society as a whole and individually.

Francesco ...