This jaw-dropping home is completely underground

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy could be yours for just $200,000.

Think a dugout is a just hole in the ground? Think again!

Carved into the side of a hill, Coober Pedy’s newest listing could rival most standard homes, despite featuring no bedroom doors or windows.

What it does have is a luxurious new bathroom and kitchen, three large bedrooms, domelike ceilings and a rock-bottom sale price of just $200,000.

Granted, you’ll have to live in outback Australia — approximately 800km north of Adelaide — to enjoy this underground abode at Lot 624 Linsky Close, which also comes with one of the cheapest residential power bills in country.

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Living in the middle of a hill — seven to 10 metres below the surface — means the home is a comfortable 23C all year round, promising electricity bills of just $200 a quarter.

That’s not bad for a township known for its heat, where the mercury regularly rises above 50C.

By comparison, the average South Australian power bill is $475 a quarter, according to Canstar Blue electricity.

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Selling agent Misty Mance of Lin Andrews Real Estate said the home’s views and location should transfix both tree-change buyers and investors.

“It’s a beautiful dugout, it’s got beautiful views and proportions,” she said.

“What I love most about the property is the large living room with its high, domelike ceiling and elongated wall tapering.

“I also love the moonstone feature walls and stairs that go with that — so in all those aspects, the home is quite unique as you don’t get a lot of dugouts that have that.

“While the dugout does need a little bit of work, the two most expensive things — the kitchen and the bathroom — have already been done, so it’s really just waiting for someone to add the creative bit, like paint the walls and maybe install some bedroom doors.”

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Set on an 1144sqm freehold block, the home comes with views over the Oodnadatta track (Kempe Rd) and township/outback scenery.

The curvaceous dugout features three bedrooms, modern wet areas, and a galley-style kitchen with reasonable cupboard and benchspace, and an electric oven. This area is fully tiled and provides access to both sides of the home.

The living area is spacious and has a high dome ceiling with arch pattern to the walls and moonstone steps and mid-walls to define the two entries to this sunken area.

Externally, moonstone adorns the face of this dugout and there is a veranda across the frontage with cement flooring and a wood oven stove for those cooler months outdoors.

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Lot 624 Linsky Close, Coober Pedy

Ms Mance said interest in the home had been positive so far, despite general interest in dugouts having dropped slightly in recent years.

“Interest so far has been good, and we actually had a viewing a week ago. Unfortunately they decided it wasn’t quite right for them,” she said.

“Dugouts can be quite popular among a cross-section of buyers. In fact, in 2017, for the entire year, all I sold was dugouts,

The market has slowed a bit since, but they still remain popular … because they stay a low 23C all year round, which makes them very economical … with power bills of just $200 to $300 a quarter.”