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Lenny
10-04-2005, 02:53 PM
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/04/eui.survey/index.html

No wonder a 100 year old home, knob and tube wiring, unfinished basement, postage stamp lot costs upwards of $900K. :eek: ...with NO view.

eg: http://www.coldwellbanker.ca/Frame.asp?qs=fs&ID=Z111570

http://www.coldwellbanker.ca/Frame.asp?qs=fs&ID=Z110438

http://www.coldwellbanker.ca/Frame.asp?qs=fs&ID=Z113928

thriller
10-04-2005, 08:09 PM
It's all in the lot value...Most homes (bungalows) are all in need of updating and adding some square footage..This can get expensive...Everyone wants three bedrooms up and two bathrroms with a powder on the mainfloor. The first house I rebuilt was a beauty old Kerrisdale Character with some really neat detailing. The second house was a small bungalow which I added another story/gutted the interior to the studs/re-wired, plumbed and it was basically a new home. It's twice as much work as building new but I like retaining the character of these old classics.:wink:

thriller
10-04-2005, 08:26 PM
This is the latest project which is really just a simple reno/addition but with all the bling bling in the kitchen. I live in this one and hope to add another storey next year. I need to make more space for the new little one arriving in May:crossfing

Lenny
10-04-2005, 08:40 PM
Is this the "Bling Bling" you are talking about in the kitchen :D http://www.donzi.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15256

thriller
10-04-2005, 08:58 PM
Oops, Now How did that get in there:rolleyes:

boxy
10-04-2005, 09:12 PM
I knew Vancouver's prices were moving, but that is crazy, this is what you can buy on the River 30 minutes from the Parliament Buildings, pretty much the same price as the second place in Van.

www.royallepage.ca/id/611384

JPR
10-04-2005, 11:32 PM
Okay, we canadians have to stop bitching about real estate prices, notice that we are the only ones involved in this thread!! Vancouver IS brutal 'nuff said. Lenny, you live in God's waiting room, so feel good about your neighbours. Boxy, if you're in Ottawa, you are in the other guys waiting room. Thriller, I'm not going to make my comment, because I don't know you. But it had to do with one of the pictures and the fact that there is a baby coming.

Cheers,:biggrin.:

Lenny
10-05-2005, 12:50 AM
Yeah, but Mike,

This house sold (by you) for $950,000... :eek: It is NUTS here. :yes:

http://www.donzi.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15251

The super wealthy, second homes for the latter, Calgary Oil money, US investment, Democrats leaving at retirement from the USA. Crazy ass prices, and they have only EVER, last 25 years, gone UP. Waaaay UP.

thriller
10-05-2005, 12:54 AM
I agree with you Lenny.. The Game is On and I'm in for the Ride

boxy
10-05-2005, 01:55 PM
Hey it's not my fault that the government sits here.
Living in Ottawa the City, (not F@#&in' OTTAWA the base of all that is wrong with our Country) really doesn't have many advantages.
Federally we get screwed, because of the perception that we prosper because of the GOV., and Provincially we get screwed because the population base in Toronto would remove any Party that sent dime one to Ottawa before taking care of the Big Smoke.
We finally got a 4 lane Highway connecting us to the 401 (thanks Mike Harris) 15 years after Toronto got a 4 lane Highway connecting them to cottage country.

We do however share the one thing that binds this Great Nation from Sea to Shining Sea...........

....our hatred of Toronto......

gcarter
10-05-2005, 06:03 PM
Well, inspite of the "high crime rates" a few US cities are doing very well.
Elaines brother bought a house on the Intracoastal waterway eight years ago in Daytone Beach for $235,000.00, now the property alone is appraised for $1,300,000.00, the house would be a tear down.
He also owns property in Las Vegas where the values have risen 300% in the last three years.
Whew!!!!! :eek:

Lenny
10-05-2005, 06:12 PM
George, I know. A hot dog stand in Key West is worth a $Mill... unreal

A fella we met in Key West, that just went through a divorce, sold everything, bought the tinest little "Hot Sauce" shop, about 20' square, in Key West, paid $800,000. :eek:

And yet, the people there, the coloured etc, it seems like there are a lot of "poverty stricken family's" there.

So, my question is.... da da da daaa, how can they afford to live ANYWHERE there?

And if history serves me right, ;) weren't many of the American Indians sent there in the early times of colonization, Fla and Key West?

gcarter
10-05-2005, 06:32 PM
When I moved to Florida for the second time in 1984, I went to Key West for the weekend., rented a scooter and proceeded to investigate every road in town (doesn't take long). Lenny, you may remember the "row-shotgun" houses just to the West of the "Most Southern Point" marker, well these were filled with what looked like Cuban refugees.
Year before last I helped a buddy move a 33' sloop to his home in Cudjo Key. While there we took the "Conch Tour Train" (always a must do), and the driver/tour leader talked incessantly about the "Gentrification" of Key West. How virtually every older home in the city (including the row-shotgun houses) has been sold and restored in the last ten years. And what this has done is move all the working class off of Key West, like my b uddy who lives 25 miles away.
Now his house has appreciated from $350,000 to $800,000 in three years.There are "projects" on Key West though.