Insane price to be buried in ‘historic cemetery’ – and it’s more than a house deposit

A burial site has been announced for more than just a house deposit in one of Australia’s most iconic cemeteries.

Second-hand burial plots are now selling for $100,000 at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney’s plush eastern suburbs.

A double burial plot at the cemetery appeared on Facebook Marketplace for a whopping six figures.

The listing lists the frame’s condition as “used, like new” and notes that it is available “in perpetuity.”

He also indicated that it had been used once, in 1911, and that it entails transfer costs.

As a sweetener, the burial site was advertised as having “sea views” in a “quiet neighborhood.”

Another plot in the same cemetery was listed for $55,000, with a discount of $70,000.

Ben Kelly, of the Australasian Cemeteries and Crematorium Association, said A current issue Cost of living pressures were a factor even in the cemetery industry.

He said the cost of land and maintenance of cemeteries has increased.

“Waverley Cemetery is a beautiful and historic cemetery with extremely limited capacity left,” Mr Kelly said.

‘As the population grows, these cemeteries are filling up and new ones are being created but they are increasingly farther away.

“So, when places become available, they will obviously be top quality.”

Waverley Cemetery, which first opened in Brontë in 1877, is filled with impressive Victorian and Edwardian monuments and memorials.

Competition for access to the cemetery is so fierce that new plots with perpetual rights are no longer available.

Residents wishing to bury their loved ones at the site must purchase renewable internment rights from Waverley Council for a period of 25 years and pay ongoing fees.

One passerby said he thought the price of the land was “ridiculous.”

A second said paying six figures for a grave “makes no sense.”

“Regardless of where you are, that sounds embarrassing,” they said.