Park Your Car in Your Living Room for $1.6m in Middle Park

At 50 Langridge Street in Middle Park, the living room is also the garage. The converted 1880s factory, listed on 6 May 2026 with a price guide of $1.6 million to $1.7 million, has no internal walls separating the lounge from the concrete floor where the buyer parks a car. A roller door opens straight into the dining area.

The property sits 140 metres from the beach, five doors from the sand. It has one mezzanine bedroom, two bathrooms, and two car spaces, though one of those spaces is less a parking bay and more the centrepiece of the home. The defining feature is the sheer volume of the open plan: exposed beams, soaring ceilings, and a kitchen tucked under the staircase.

Marshall White agent Oliver Bruce said the listing drew instant attention. “The online response and numbers through opens don’t surprise me,” he told realestate.com.au on 12 May. “We knew it was going to be a bit of a wildcard. And it has had some attention from overseas. We have had inquiries from people in London and New York.”

The floorplan forces a question on every visitor. “People are walking in and saying ‘what do I do here?’” Bruce said. “There’s a lot of space to play with, with the volume of the height there from the ceilings.” The raw loft leaves buyers imagining walls, a glass enclosure around the car, a second bedroom on the mezzanine level – all subject to City of Port Phillip approvals.

The 127-square-metre block was built around 1880 as a factory and later converted, but it never lost its industrial bones. The mezzanine bedroom has an ensuite, a ground-floor bathroom and laundry sit near the kitchen, and the garage’s integration with the living area remains the hardest-working square metre in the floorplan.

For buyers coming from character-filled conversions in London or New York, the unfinished quality is part of the appeal. The property is not a turnkey home. It demands a renovation budget for any addition of privacy – walls, dividers, or a separate garage – and the council approval process will determine how far a buyer can push the layout.

Middle Park’s bayside scarcity drives the price. Warehouse conversions in this tightly held suburb rarely surface. A comparable loft at 36 Patterson Street, with three bedrooms and a rooftop terrace, has also been listed, but that property is fully finished and will command a higher sum. The Langridge Street offering is a more affordable entry point to loft living by the water, raw and ready for customisation rather than already resolved.

The interest from overseas and the heavy foot traffic through opens suggest competition will be strong. Auction or expression-of-interest dates have not been set, but with few warehouse listings in the suburb and a location five doors from the beach, the agent expects a buyer pool that moves quickly. A buyer looking for a move-in-ready home, however, should budget for the cost of turning a car-in-living-room novelty into a private residence.

Bruce summed up the property’s core tension: “What you might spend time on is wondering what you could do.” The question mark, priced from $1.6 million, is already generating answers from buyers who see a blank canvas seven figures from the sand.