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The beautiful multimillion-dollar Nantucket home of your dreams is available for free — but there's a catch

New York Post·Realtor.com·6 months ago
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A classic shingled house on Massachusetts ‘ Billionaire Isle is up for grabs, and instead of costing millions, the house is being given away for free . The catch? You have to move it off the current owner’s property.

No, this doesn’t have to do with erosion . Nantucket — like many oceanside areas — has seen some home prices plummet due to erosion, forcing some homes to be moved or demolished.

But this house — at 140 Surfside Road on the southern side of the island near the airport — is located far enough away from the shore that erosion isn’t an issue.

Instead, the house — a 1,736-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath Colonial on a little over an acre — is being given away as part of the island’s Demolition Delay Bylaw program.

This is part of a longstanding island tradition of offering up homes for free rather than demolishing them and tossing them into the island’s one landfill.…

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