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Address: 18 Coutnac Crescent
Neighbourhood: Tiny, Ontario
Agent: Lorne Howell, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage
Price: $2,350,000
The Place: A sprawling vacation property with a high-end house and a 160-foot stretch of white sandy beach on Georgian Bay.
ADDRESS: 245 North Shore Road
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Port Severn, Georgian Bay
AGENT: Armin and AnneMarie Grigaitis, ReMax Baywatch Ltd., Brokerage
PRICE: $2,199,000
THE PLACE: A cottage with a palatial air (for instance, it has a circular staircase and a turreted tower), tucked in its own little cove on Georgian Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
With all the talk of condo bubbles, over-the-top bidding wars and failed flips, wading into Toronto’s housing market requires equal parts bravery and real estate savvy. To help with the latter, we decided to dish when the properties we profile in our House of the Week, Condomonium and Cottage of the Week features are sold. Here, all the details from the latest sale.
• The full description: Cottage of the Week: $6.8 million for an island, plus six cabins, in Georgian Bay [September 1o, 2012]
• The place: A 12-acre island housing a sprawling family compound designed by Stark Architects. Spread across the property are a main lodge, a master cottage, three self-contained sleeper cottages, a laundry cottage and two boathouses—one with a two-bedroom loft apartment.
ADDRESS: 168 Old Mill Road
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Georgian Bay
AGENT: Bob Emmett and Fred Shaw, Royal LePage Four Seasons Real Estate Centre, Brokerage
PRICE: $2,650,000
THE PLACE: A unique (how many homes greet you with a totem pole at the front door?) and grandiose (check out the chandelier in the bathroom) cottage that still maintains a home-y feel, thanks to wide-plank wood floors, reclaimed wood-beam ceilings and that old cottage staple, a moose head on the wall.
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ADDRESS: Chamberlain Island
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Sans Souci‚ Georgian Bay
AGENTS: George Webster, Moffat Dunlap Real Estate Ltd.
PRICE: $6,800,000
THE PLACE: Purchased in the 1930s, this 12-acre island was once home to a modest log cabin, but now houses a sprawling family compound designed by Stark Architects. Spread across the property are a main lodge, a master cottage, three self-contained sleeper cottages, a laundry cottage and two boathouses—one with a 2-bedroom loft apartment.
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ADDRESS: 155 Island
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Private island near Honey Harbour, Georgian Bay
AGENT: Stephanie Anne Newlands and Matthew Alexander Parent, Private Service Realty
PRICE: $1,599,999
THE PLACE: A private island that is just under three acres (the size varies depending on water level), and located 15 minutes from Georgian Bay’s Honey Harbour. The three buildings have a quirky charm, and contain six bedrooms in total.
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ADDRESS: 201 Little Cove Road, Tobermory
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Georgian Bay
AGENT: Darlene James, RE/MAX Grey Bruce Realty
PRICE: $6,500,000
THE PLACE: This eight-bedroom estate sits on over 98 acres of land on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. It was originally built as an eco-lodge (which means there are plenty of guest rooms for friends and family).
With all the talk of condo bubbles, over-the-top bidding wars and failed flips, wading into Toronto’s housing market requires equal parts bravery and real estate savvy. To help with the latter, we decided to dish when the properties we profile in our House of the Week, Condomonium and Cottage of the Week features are sold. Here, all the details from the latest sale.
• Cottage of the Week: $2.6 million for a 12-acre retreat just north of Parry Sound [May 22, 2012]
• The place: A 12-acre property with a main cottage, a separate secondary guest cottage, a private sandy beach, a boathouse, outdoor showers and 360-degree views.
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Top down and open road used to be the best way to get to the cottage, but that was before highways became parking lots, crammed with expletive-spewing drivers all thinking the same thing: there’s got to be a better way. Turns out there is. Here, we show just how fast the city’s luckiest cottagers get from Billy Bishop Airport to their northern oases.
His plane: 2012 Lancair Evolution Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $945,000)
His cottage: Lake Muskoka
Estimated air time: 20 minutes
Other destinations: New York; Montreal
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ADDRESS: 8447 30/31 Side Road
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Collingwood
AGENTS: Carol Lome, Royal LePage Real Estate Services and Judy Crompton, Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited, Brokerage
PRICE: $3,295,000
THE PLACE: A six-bedroom, five-bathroom country estate perched on a hill in Collingwood’s Pretty River Valley. The property is winterized for year-round use, and is near Devil’s Glen and Osler Bluffs ski clubs, as well as some top-notch golf courses.
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ADDRESS: 1174 Tiny Beaches Road South
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Township of Tiny, Southern Georgian Bay
AGENTS: Gabriele Telfer, Royal LePage In Touch Realty
PRICE: $1,185,000
THE PLACE: This two-bedroom, two-bath cottage is located along the sunset-blessed southern peninsula of Georgian Bay, but its stone landscaping and natural wood interior give it a positively coastal air.
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ADDRESS: 47/48 Pointe Au Baril Point
NEIGHBOURHOOD: The Archipelago, Parry Sound
AGENT: George Webster, Moffat Dunlap Real Estate Ltd. and Erica Reddy, Royal LePage Signature Realty, Brokerage
PRICE: $2,580,000
THE PLACE: A 12-acre property with a main cottage, a separate secondary guest cottage, a private sandy beach, a boathouse, outdoor showers and 360-degree views.
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ADDRESS: 201 Brophys Lane
REGION: Blue Mountains, Ontario
AGENT: Veronica Lord, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, Brokerage
PRICE: $4,950,000
THE PLACE: A muscular, Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired four-bedroom on Georgian Bay.
Gil Blutrich. (Image: Christopher Wahl)
Gil Blutrich believes in destiny. When he was a boy growing up in Ra’anana, a town north of Tel Aviv, he spent a lot of time fantasizing about what he wanted for his bar mitzvah. While most of the boys in his class opted for expensive stereo systems or family vacations in Europe, Blutrich chose to redecorate his room. It was the early ’70s, and photographic wallpaper murals were all the rage. Blutrich passed over the tropical beach scenes and snow-capped mountains for something different: a summer landscape with a lush green meadow and a reedy frog pond. It was, he now believes, a postcard of southern Ontario, cosmically mailed back in time by his future self. “I looked at that wallpaper every day until I was 18, and it’s only now I realize I was looking at Canada and thinking about Canada before I even knew it. If that’s not destiny, I don’t know what is.”
ADDRESS: Boundary Lake Property
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Seguin Township, Township of the Archipelago, Georgian Bay
AGENT: George Webster, Moffat Dunlap Real Estate Ltd.
PRICE: $8.5 million
THE PLACE: The name of the estate might not resonate as much as Hyannisport, the Kennedys’ Cape Cod compound, but Boundary Lake was once the summer escape of Canada’s uncrowned monarchy, the Eatons. Their Georgian Bay retreat was first developed by John David Eaton in the 1940s as a hunting preserve and was used by the family until the late ’90s, when an orthodontist from Grimsby purchased the site and restored the buildings.
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