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Sold (Bought): Condo at foot of South Granville's Gallery Row neighbourhood close to art scene – Vancouver Sun
Bosa designed the homes with a focus on European-inspired architecture
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Weekly roundup of three properties that recently sold in Metro Vancouver.
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504 – 1425 West 6th Ave., Vancouver
Type: One-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
Size: 875 square feet
B.C. Assessment: $888,000
Listed for: $799,000
Sold for: $810,000
Sold on: October 2
Days on market in this listing: 23
Listing agent: Carole Lieberman and Brett Leard at Dexter Realty
Buyers agent: Troy Chapman at TRG – The Residential Group Realty
The big sell: Modena of Portico is one of six residential buildings and ground-level retail that make up the Portico development that boasts an art-centric location at the foot of South Granville’s Gallery Row neighbourhood. Bosa designed the homes with a focus on European-inspired architecture while taking advantage of the scenic mountain, city skyline and English Bay views. This particular home is a one-bedroom-plus-den condo with a northwesterly exposure. It also has two bathrooms – a full ensuite off the bedroom and a powder room off the entryway. The communicating dining and living rooms enjoy a gas fireplace and access to a balcony while a separate laundry room contains a stacked washer and dryer. The unit has a parking stall and storage locker, and a monthly maintenance fee of $379.41.
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41 – 2216 Folkestone Wy., West Vancouver
Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse
Size: 1,969 square feet
B.C. Assessment: $1,495,000
Listed for: $1,680,000
Sold for: $1,620,000
Sold on: October 21
Days on market in this listing: 13
Listing agent: Sabrina Guo and Mingwei Du at Royal Pacific Lions Gate Realty
Buyers agent: Mike Giesbrecht at Royal LePage Sussex
The big sell: West Vancouver’s aptly-named Panorama Village complex is perfectly positioned on a gentle gradient that captures sweeping southerly vistas spanning Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver, the UBC peninsula and ocean seascapes. Built in 1976, the owner-occupied development consists of 42 townhomes with covered parking (this unit has two stalls), private patios and manicured gardens. This end-unit, two-level home was fully renovated in 2016 and offers two bedrooms on the main floor as well as a modern kitchen with an oversized island and an adjoining dining and living area furnished with a striking floor-to-ceiling textured-surround gas fireplace, and contemporary light fixtures overhead. Sliding glass doors lead to a patio garden while the lower level contains a recreation room, bedroom and laundry.
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224 – 4690 Hawk Ln., Tsawwassen
Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
Size: 747 square feet
B.C. Assessment: $473,000
Listed for: $539,000
Sold for: $520,000
Sold on: October 22
Days on market in this listing: 17
Listing agent: Adam Chahl at Oakwyn Realty
Buyers agent: Pablo Paez at Team 3000 Realty
The big sell: The Coast condominium building was the first complex to be built as part of Aquilini Development’s master-planned community of Tsawwassen Shores which, as its name suggests, is located near the ocean and numerous beach trails as well as within walking distance to the shopping centres at Tsawwassen Mills and Tsawwassen Commons. Built in 2019, this home features premium Samsung and Whirlpool appliances, quartz countertops, an ensuite and walk-in closet off the primary bedroom, and a covered balcony. It comes with two side-by-side parking spaces and three storage lockers. The leasehold strata building is pet and rental friendly with amenities that include a gym, amenity room and playground. The unit’s monthly maintenance fee is $248.59.
These transactions were compiled by Nicola Way of BestHomesBC.com.
Please note that sales cannot be published until after their completion date.
Realtors – send your recent sales to nicola@besthomesbc.com
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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate – Cracked.com
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John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 – CBC.ca
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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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