The weatherboard house at 6 Cecil St, Frankston, is for sale following a fire.
A fire-damaged Frankston house listed as a standout opportunity to renovate or develop could sell for more than $1m.
The five-bedroom weatherboard home at 6 Cecil St has a $950,000-$1.045m range.
OBrien Frankston’s Luke Magree said he believed the blaze had been started by Christmas tree decorations, roughly a year ago. Fortunately, no-one was hurt in the fire.
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Mr Magree said the home’s owner of more than a decade was hoping the circa-1950 house would be purchased by someone wanting to restore it, but he was also expecting plenty of investors, renovators and developers due to the 1000sq m block size.
Within 48 hours of the abode being listed, investors from as far away as Sydney had contacted him about the residence in addition to other buyers including someone hoping to renovate and flip the home.
The address within the Frankston Secondary College zone is also likely to appeal to families.
Parklands including the George Pentland Botanical Gardens, hospitals, Foot St shops, bus routes, Monash University and Frankston’s CBD are all nearby too.
The house is set on a 1000sq m land parcel.
The residence was previously a family home.
Mr Magee described the home as a rare offering in the local area.
“It’s probably in the best part of Frankston bar the beach front and it’s just flat, usable land in
blue-chip Frankston, smack-bang in the middle of everything in the high school zone,” Mr Magee said.
The home’s original layout included multiple living zones around a central kitchen.
The block could potentially be developed with units or townhouses, subject to council approval.
This fire-impacted house at 187 Somerville Rd, Yarraville, sold for $770,000 in July 2025. Nicholas Scott Real Estate Yarraville marketed the property.
Mr Magee said the listing represented a good opportunity to demolish the existing residence and build three or four large townhouses on the block, subject to council approval.
Or, on rough estimates, he said renovating the house could potentially cost a minimum $150,000 with a larger $300,000-$400,000 bill if the new owner wanted to go all out.
“The living room where the fire happened, that front living room is already back at the frame,” Mr Magee said.
A fire-affected period house in regional Victoria at 205 Montgomery St, Lake Bolac, changed hands for $125,000 in March 2025.
Ray White Ararat’s director Adam Walker had the listing.
Realestate.com.au listings show a half dozen other fire-damaged homes sold across Victoria throughout 2025.
In August, a Thomastown home where a blaze had occurred fetched $660,000.
The previous month, a three-bedroom Yarraville house with a fire-affected kitchen and family room changed hands for $770,000.
Named Kardinia, this fire-damaged thee-bedroom house at 4 Kelsall St, Warracknabeal, sold for $100,000 in May 2025.
Elders Warracknabeal managed the sales campaign.
A period Warracknabeal house where the front veranda and lounge room were burned by a conflagration changed hands for $100,000 in May.
In the state’s Western District, a circa-1914 former schoolteacher’s house in Lake Bolac which had experienced a fire sold for $125,000 in early 2025.
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