Honestly the age of the house isn’t that big of a deal. Like, all of my houses framing is first growth lumber. A 2x8 is actually 2” by 8” everything is solid af. I’ve never replaced any exterior/structural framing because of rot etc. a house this age as well usually “breathes” which is a detriment in that outside of redoing all your envelope and insulation, these houses are usually cold. The flip side is even if water gets in, it dries out. No Vapor barriers, nothing fancy to hold moisture in and create mold and rot.

It really depends what’s done on that house that went for 1.8 but I’d say at the end of the day, at least for me, the investment of buying your own house, on your own property is worth the price difference. No shared walls, no risk of having a bad neighbour etc.

Rewiring an entire house like that might run you 25-40k depending on what you want. Plumbing on old houses is generally very simple and all on one side of the house etc.

The benefit of the newer duplex is that you’ll likely have to do less work overall. Buying a 100+ year old house is not for someone who can’t use a hammer and do some work themselves. In the same vein though, you’re not guaranteed the newer duplex won’t have you doing work either

I think that is a huge thing thay is generally lost on people who clamour to buy a detached, that shit is WORK lol.. like I spend literally 20+ hours just raking leaves every year. I’m not complaining tgough I consider myself lucky and I actually like doing things myself/saving money but it’s the type of thing that never really ends.

I've always thought that a duplex was a best arrangement for someone who can't go all in for a detached. I mean it might be obvious ... but the no maintenance fee is the good part, most maintenance fee is in the $400 range and up now. I know that some of it you will use for regular maintenance. But even if you can use $250 of that towards your mortgage instead ... you're still ahead. Nice condos for about the same (1200+) sq ft and number of bedrooms are going for $1.2-1.3M so why not go in a bit more like $1.5M for a duplex. Just vet your neighbour well!

Well yea like the price point is the tipping point right

I’m sure there are a lot of newer “fancier” duplexes touching the prices of older Vancouver specials etc. I think if there ever is any sort of correction that detached has a much higher chance of retaining its value

Does YVR have Row Houses ... Townhouses without Strata (no maintenance fee). In 416, there are lots of row houses as options. If so, get the one on the end and it'd be like a duplex.

Not that I know of. Both my good friends in Toronto have those row homes. That’s seemingly most of the homes outside of the downtown core, they are both in the beaches/Leslieville

I asked about this in 2020 when I was looking. There were a few in construction row homes out in Langley by Willoughby.

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You just brought back memories of nearly breaking my wrists off drilling through my joists with a hole hawg when I was running feeder cables to power my garage.

The wood is strong as fuck on these old houses, but the concrete is weak (compared to new stuff).

Yea, I’ve got a new foundation and footings thankfully

https://www.straight.com/news/why-va...mple-rowhouses

There are non-strata rowhomes outside of vancouver just not very popular

https://www.strawhomes.com/mls/tag/r...se-non-strata/

^ good that there are some going up as close as Queensborough and Tsawwassen. Gives people another option.

I like how some of these are 1660 sqft on 2 levels ... all of the townhouses in Vancouver are split into 3 levels and each level feels so small. If 1660 on 2 levels ... that would feel quite spacious! Here is link to sample floor plan https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...ew-westminster

When can they build that Massey Bridge for the Tsawwassen one?!

At the rate it's going it'll never get built but if it ever does, those house values will skyrocket

Yah. There was a spoof article on The Hive satirically saying if we would have let Christy Clark and the Liberals finish the Massey bridge project, it would have been done by now. But no ...now we are doing a friggin tunnel! And it hasn't even started.

I thought the NDP stopped construction when Horgan won??

Yah ...I meant if NDP would have finished what Liberals started instead of halting it, doing more studies, then concluded on a new tunnel!

The project is definitely underway, my sister works on it for the contractor

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If they built a Massey bridge, it would be closed in the winter like the Port Mann and Alex Fraser :troll:

^ guess that is one advantage that a tunnel has over a bridge ... :lol. Or, maybe 3rd time lucky and the Engineers finally learned?

the tunnel is already under built even before it was started

Hurry people ... 4 Beds, 2 bath, 1609 sqft $1.3M in Richmond detached home

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...9226873157481/

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.n...pg&oe=61F16BA8

Richmond (McNair) Offer deadline Tuesday, January 24th by 5 PM

May be one of those that they set lower for attention and then gets 45 bids and $500K over

Last year's average in that area is 1.24m-1.33m. There was a special one at 1.62m. List price is in that neighborhood but given how stupid buyers are these days most likely will go over

fucking hell i think i've seen bedrooms larger in size in mansions for 400k than that entire house lot.

back in the 70's?

400K would be lots back then. The house I grew up in(burnaby) was $24K in 1972

I think he’s referring to mansions in buttfuck US at current times.

2873sq foot bedroom tho, has to be going back in time too