Tiny Glasgow flat on sale for £115k only has one bed – on a shelf in the living room

An exterior view of the Glasgow flat
The pink stone tenement flat was put in the marketplace for £115,000 (Image :Shifting Property Company)

When you’re a Londoner wanting north to get on the property ladder, you need to understand it’s not simply houses within the capital which can be brief on house.

This (allegedly) one-bedroom flat in Glasgow was mocked on-line this week, after being positioned in the marketplace for £115,000.

The house is so small that its solely sleeping space is a bunk mattress in the lounge – and the one approach as much as that seems to be strolling up a staircase-shaped shelf.

Regardless of seeking to most like a studio condo, the itemizing for the flat says in any other case, and there are only a few mentions of the unusual sleeping preparations, apart from typical property agent lingo describing the structure as ‘versatile’ and that it ‘could be tailored to swimsuit the person purchaser’.

The one different point out reads: ‘Engaging characteristic hearth, strong wooden flooring and recessed space at the moment with mattress.’

Wanting on the ground plan, we are able to see that this ‘recessed space’ within the sitting room is successfully what your bed room can be, as the one different rooms are the kitchen/diner and toilet.

The property's living room, which has a recessed area with a bed on a shelf. The bed can only be accessed via a bookshelf that looks like stairs.
Photos reveal the ‘bed room’ is definitely only a recessed space in the lounge (Image: Shifting Property Company)

Potential patrons haven’t missed a trick, poking enjoyable on the flat positioned in Glasgow’s West Finish.

‘Each time I begin to miss residing in Glasgow, Rightmove provides me a actuality verify,’ stated one individual on-line, whereas one other wrote, ‘I used to stay on this avenue. £115k for a studio flat is psychological.’

One commenter added: ‘Studio flat – as in a single room to stay and sleep in, with a separate lavatory and kitchen?

An alternate view of the living room, this time not showing the sleeping area
Peep the staircase/bookshelf you must climb to get to mattress each evening (Image: Shifting Property Company)

‘That’s insane. How can anybody be anticipated to take out a 25 12 months mortgage for that?

‘Or is the thought for it to be resold each few years, for a better worth?’

For comparability, the common sale worth for a property in Thornwood is £157,508, however the majority of one-bedroom flats offered for across the £100,000 mark and studios for beneath this determine.

The property's large kitchen/dining area, with yellow cabinets and wood flooring
The kitchen is spacious, with house for a big eating desk (Image: Shifting Property Company)

That’s to not say this tenement dwelling doesn’t have something going for it, although.

The property itemizing continues: ‘Conventional pink sandstone high ground center flat set in extraordinarily well-liked spot inside Thornwood conveniently positioned for West Finish.

‘Transport hyperlinks, quick access to motorway networks, Clyde tunnel, West Finish, procuring, acclaimed eating places and bars, and retail park with an excellent vary of well-liked excessive avenue shops all shut by.

‘The flat retains unique options and can enchantment to first time patrons and traders alike.’

The bathroom with tub and toilet in view
And no less than there’s a personal lavatory… the bar may be very low (Image: Shifting Property Company)

When you can abdomen having to sleep in your front room – and due to this fact by no means with the ability to be alone in case you have visitors or flatmates – you’ll additionally get a lately fitted boiler and double glazing and entry to communal rear gardens.

It additionally has a separate lavatory with a bath, which is one thing, proper?

Maybe our barometer for what constitutes a good residing house is off. We grew up pondering a house shouldn’t resemble a hamster cage with no privateness, and that’s on us.

However grownup bunkbeds ended terribly for Will Ferrell and John C Reilly’s characters in Step Brothers, so why ought to we anticipate this to be any totally different?

View the property itemizing and enquire about viewings by means of Shifting Property Brokers and is on Rightmove.

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