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17 Brooklyn Ave, Frankston, has thousands of prospective buyers eyeing it — despite being too dangerous to go inside of it.
A graffiti-riddled Frankston house too dangerous to enter after being left vacant for 30 years and hijacked as a local kids’ clubhouse has been eyed by thousands of buyers.
The agent selling the home refuses to set foot inside for fear he’ll go through the floor and said “everywhere you look there is asbestos”, with a drone required to get interior photos taken.
But the 17 Brooklyn Ave property with a $525,000-$575,000 asking price has still attracted almost 5000 views online since it was listed just before Christmas.
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Hundreds have saved the listing for further consideration and at least 30 have inspected the property — up to three times normal levels for homes in the suburb.
Foster Froling Real Estate’s Aaron Froling said the three-bedroom house would need someone to “bring it back from the dead” to continue as a home given its current condition.
“The owners were there for about 10 years, then moved to Canberra — and they never came back, so it has sat there vacant,” Mr Froling said.
“Local kids have been using it, hanging out after school so there’s graffiti and tags. But they haven’t been malicious and broken things. They just use it as a clubhouse.”
The home has been used as a “clubhouse” by local kids for a number of years.
There is extensive graffiti throughout the home, but no significant damage has been caused by the youths.
The home last sold for a paltry $51,300 in 1985, with the current owners using it on and off for about a decade before relocating.
The roof has ivy growing through it, the back shed is asbestos and the agent suspects the cladding might have the banned substance in it too.
Despite this, he said “interest has been huge”.
“It’s affordable, but the question is what do you do with it once you own this one?” Mr Froling said.
“It will need a diehard builder, the kind of builder who can bring stuff back from the dead.”
The kitchen has been rearranged, but not destroyed.
While clearly damaged, the home’s bathroom still has tiles and glazing mostly intact.
Bulldozing and replacing the home was also a viable option, and once a new house was on the block the agent said it could be worth closer to $1.4m.
Advertising for the house describes it as “beyond repair” and imagery shows kids have tagged and graffitied almost every wall inside, though remarkably blinds and wallpaper remain mostly intact.
Ivy growing up the outside of the home has invaded the roof, and can be seen growing along interior walls in the bathroom.
But tiles and glazing are still undamaged.
The 900sq m block has scope for development, a new house or potentially for the right buyer to bring its home back from the dead.
The 900sq m properties lawns and gardens have been kept under control by neighbours over the past few years, and has the potential to be transformed into up to three units.
No. 17 Brooklyn Ave goes under the hammer at noon on January 18.
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