Tiny garage in Tooting fetches staggering £208,000 at auction

High value: the garage sold for £208,000
Andrews & Robinson
Robin de Peyer17 December 2015

This tiny garage has fetched an eye-watering £208,000 at auction.

Wandsworth Council sold the property in Tooting for almost as much as the UK's average house price of about £280,000.

In a listing for the property, auctioneers Andrews and Robertson said it was "within a sought after residential area between Balham High Road and Elmbourne Road".

It added that the garage "may be suitable for redevelopment/change of use" though no planning permission was yet in place.

The garage measures just 10'7" across its front, and its sale includes a small car parking space in front.

Tight fit: a map showing the garage's site
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The auction house's director, Jeremy Lamb, told the Wandsworth Guardian: "It is a lot of money. I would be surprised if someone had bought it to keep a car or a lawnmower in it.

"We marketed it as a garage but with development potential.

"I think the price paid reflects that."

He added: "You would need to get an additional storey, and the plot itself is not that big either but if you could manage to get two floors you might get a small studio.

"It is going to need to be carefully designed and will have to go through planning, so would not be straight forward at all."

Buyers outside the M25 could afford a four-bedroom town house in Manchester or a six-bedroom terraced house in Newcastle for the same price.

In September a row of four run-down garages in Sydenham sold for almost £140,000.

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