Boston’s Skinny House sells for fat price

BOSTON’S famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price.

The home in the city’s North

End hit the market in August for

$1.2 million (about R 17.6m) and the deal was closed on Thursday for $1.25m, according to Zillow.

The home “received multiple offers and went under agreement for over list price in less than one week,” real estate agency CL Properties posted on Facebook.

The four-storey home built in

1862, according to a plaque on the facade, is about 108m² – even though it is about 3m wide at its widest point and narrows in the back to 2.8m.

It has two bedrooms and one bathroom and includes a private deck with a view of Boston Harbour.

The home does not have a front door. Instead, residents enter through a side door.

It was last sold in 2017 for

$900 000.

It is also known as the Spite House, according to the plaque. According to local lore, two brothers inherited some land.

When one of them joined the army, the other built a large house that took up most of the land.

When the soldier’s brother returned, he built the Skinny House to block his brother’s view and sunlight. | AP