THE HOME WITH A TINY CITY PRICE TAG

IMAGINE buying a “home” for less than $150,000 just 10 minutes from the centre of Hobart.

OK sure, this one is not your traditional bricks-and-mortar investment, but this tiny house can take you anywhere, on water at least.

Located at 3/29 Gepp Parade in Prince of Wales Bay in Derwent Park is a 48m jetty (crown lease) and a 14.6m Ferro cement boat called Jay Lee.

The boat comprises three cabins that sleeps six people, a central control room with a bench seat, a large galley with a kitchen, wood heater, a dining and sitting area, a shower and a toiler.

A room at the bow of the boat has two small beds, while at the stern is a bedroom, the master suite if you will, with a double bed and a single bed, as well as ample storage.

PMM Real Estate Rosny Park agent Stefanie Szycman said that they were selling the jetty as crown land and the boat as chattel.

She said that because a buyer could not technically live on the boat full-time, those interested in the offering were diverse. “We have people looking at turning it into a cafe or short-stay accommodation,” she said.

“I would say 80 per cent (of interested buyers) are locals, with about 20 per cent of them mainlanders.”

Ms Szycman said the mainland buyers were more interested in the jetty than the boat, drawn to its proximity to Hobart CBD.

She said those interested parties already had “fancy boats” and were looking for somewhere to drop anchor when they visited Tasmania.

As for its current owner, Ms Szycman said he is a FIFO worker now working on the mainland.

She said the man used the boat as a place to reside when in Tasmania.

“But I am told that at one time a family lived onboard and the kids would go to school from there,” she said.

“Honestly, I have sold bedsits in town that are smaller than this. It is quite roomy inside.”

The jetty/boat combination was listed just before the pandemic struck, with the agency initially hosting an “open home, or rather an open boat”.

But Ms Szycman said they were now just letting the buyers “come to us”.

“It is a certain type of buyer who will buy this,” she said.