For keen renovators searching for their own Block-style challenge – without the television cameras – two opportunities have popped up.

Two empty shell apartments in the Gatwick Hotel, the site of the 2018 series of The Block, have hit the market.

Both stripped two-bedroom units are on the ground floor and for sale with proposed floor plans.

The smaller of the two, apartment G01, has 128 square metres of floor space and price expectations of about $800,000.

Neighbouring G02 is bigger, with 138 square metres of floor space along with a 46-metre outdoor area, and price expectations of $900,000.

The Agency general manager of Victoria Peter Kakos described them as “completely gutted.”

“They are two shells,” he said, adding that Channel 9 was selling the apartments, which, despite having just been listed, were quickly attracting attention.

“The properties have just gone live, and the phones have already started to ring,” Mr Kakos said. “The reality is, it’s just a rare opportunity. It’d be an awesome project for someone.”

“You’ve got your own piece of the Gatwick Hotel.”

He thought the apartments would be appealing separately, or bought together and renovated as a combined entity with a private entry in Fitzroy Street.

Mr Kakos said he was seeing a lot of people in the market for “really good projects”, and the two Gatwick apartments provided an opportunity to avoid having to strip a property first.

Although it was “a little too early” to tell if The Block connection would be a major selling point, he thought investors looking for a long or short-term rental would be interested.

“There’ll definitely be the Airbnb market,” he said. “The other ones in the Gatwick that are leased go extremely well.”

The St Kilda market is tracking well, he said, with the first-home buyer market “extremely good”.

“Lending has become a bit easier, and confidence is well and truly back,” he said.

One of his co-listing agents, The Agency’s Jesse Raeburn, was a contestant on this year’s series of The Block at The Oslo.

The Gatwick season saw five pairs of contestants renovating a three-bedroom apartment each, with one extra challenge apartment. The two shells now for sale were not needed as part of the show.

The former boarding house, built in 1937, had previously belonged to sisters Rose Banks and Yvette Kelly who had sold the building to Channel 9 for $10 million.

They later bought back in, snapping up one of the finished apartments for $2.77 million which they later leased out.

The Grand Final episode for the 2018 season screened at the end of October last year. It revealed underdogs Sara and Hayden, a married couple from Sydney, as the winners of the show, with their apartment selling at auction for $3.02 million.

The cheapest on the night was Norm and Jess’s – an engaged couple from the Sunshine Coast – whose Apartment 4 sold for $2.859 million.

By contrast, the 2019 season saw Queensland contestants Tess and Luke Struber sell their townhouse, also in St Kilda, for a winning $3.62 million.

St Kilda’s median apartment price for the 12 months to September was $500,000, while the median house price was $1.582 million.