Little house, big ticket
As an example of a Vancouver real estate market that can induce gasps, consider 4541 Belmont.
It is a detached house on a 60-by-95-foot lot.
The house is 720 square feet in size. It is for sale.
It has one bedroom, size small, one bathroom, size smaller, a living room an optimist might describe as "cosy" and a kitchen decorated in the latest turn-of-the-century style, and by that I mean the 19th century.
The walls are painted in a colour best described as Custard Gone Bad, and permeating the interior is a funky smell of -- what exactly? -- mildew fighting it out with Clorox? Its basement, reached by stairs steep enough that one properly should rappel down them, has a bunker's charm. The house has gutters but, oddly, no drainpipes. Its age? Unknown. They're still waiting for the carbon-dating results.
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