A modern one-bedroom home is on sale in a trendy area of London for just £65k – but it comes with a big catch.
The pint-sized 243 sq ft home in Hackney, east features a contemporary kitchen and bathroom as well as crisp, white walls throughout.
It also boasts a large kitchen-living area and a bathroom with walk-in shower, the shipping container also boasts a large bedroom with room for a double bed.
But while it appears every inch the stylish modern home, it is not your typical suburban two-up-two down.
In fact owners will need more than just a man with a van when they move into their new property.
The pint-sized 243 sq ft home features a contemporary kitchen and bathroom as well as crisp, white walls throughout, all enclosed inside an unusual solution to the housing crisis
The homes include marble-effect tiles in a compact bathroom with a walk-in shower
Inside the kitchen living room area there is a modern oven, induction hobs and additional space for a dishwasher or washing machine by the sink
The latest solution to the housing crisis gives aspiring homeowners the opportunity to buy shipping containers that have been converted into homes
The ‘quality’ 20ft abodes are actually housed in a large shipping container and built and designed by MCL homes.
In recent years, Londoners in search of a home in the capital have faced a mammoth task where they are forced to queue around blocks to view one rental house or they face eye-watering prices if they wish to get on the property ladder.
To combat this, thrifty individuals have found creative places to call home. These include Harrison Marshall, 28, who converted a skip into a home in Bermondsey, south London .
Now, the latest solution gives aspiring homeowners the opportunity to buy shipping containers that have been converted into homes.
Jaie Petty, the founder of MCL homes told MailOnline that the company currently has six prototypes and over 500 eager people – who mostly heard about the homes through social media posts by Mr Petty – are on a waiting list for one of the homes.
But while these show houses are situated in the trendy east London suburb of Hackney – just a stone’s-throw away from the London 2012 Olympic Park – they are not for living in.
Instead, interested buyers will need to have secured a plot of land to accommodate the container before it can be delivered.
But buyers hoping to stay in east London will have to consider the fact a hectare of land costs on average a whopping £7.3million.
Mr Petty said: ‘We plan to offer a full service for our buyers to work with them to help them find a place to put their home.’
The shipping container homes were designed with the ongoing housing crisis in mind. Mr Petty said: ‘These houses are to help get people somewhere that they can call home. It’s so hard for people to get homes in London right now. It’s a double-edged sword.
‘For young people especially. You know they have become so used to living in box rooms with housemates because that is all they can afford. This is an affordable solution to help youngsters get on the property ladder.’
The environmentally friendly homes can also be powered by solar panels and can be easily moved to new locations by their owners.
Mr Petty said: ‘If people want to move around, their home can come with them. Which I know will be something a lot of younger people will be interested in because they are not buying homes and settling down in the same way people did in the past.’
The 500 people on the waiting list for one of the shipping container homes will have to wait a little longer to get their homes.
But while these show houses are situated in the trendy east London suburb of Hackney – just a stone’s-throw away from the London 2012 Olympic Park – they are not for living in
Interested buyers will need to have secured a plot of land to accommodate the container before it can be delivered. But buyers hoping to stay in east London will have to consider the fact a hectare of land costs on average a whopping £7.3million
The shipping container also boasts a large bedroom with room for a double bed
Mr Petty said: ‘We are a new company which was only set up last year but we are hoping to get some of those shipped off to people by next year. People know it is going to be a bit of a wait before they can move in.
‘We’ve got a pilot scheme where we’re about to get one on Airbnb and I’ve actually been living in one for the last six months and it’s been great living in it!
‘We’ve built six so far which are all prototypes for us to perfect the design.’
Rust inside shipping container homes has been an issue in the past, in April this year a housing estate in Acton, west London, made of rusting shipping containers was closed down after it had previously branded it the ‘worst place to live in Britain.’
But Mr Petty claims to have solved these issues.
Mr Petty said: I’ve had some of the best people help us build them and we’ve managed to fix some of the issues we saw with container houses in the past – for example we found a way to insulate the homes without using foam which used to cause the houses to rot from the inside out.’