A shack in Vancouver is selling for $7 million. Here’s what you could buy elsewhere. Mar 21st

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A shack in Vancouver is selling for $7 million. Here’s what you could buy elsewhere.

– macleans.ca

In 2015 a shack in Vancouver’s West End made headlines when it sold for nearly $3 million. Just 27 months later, the rundown pile is back on the market and making headlines again, with an asking price of close to $7 million.

Barclay Street home in Vancouver’s West End for sale for almost $7m https://t.co/LS0fxoUzYg pic.twitter.com/e4ybsSzEdF
— The Vancouver Sun (@VancouverSun) March 20, 2018

That sounds nuts, but it’s even crazier when you compare it to what that kind of money will buy in other parts of Canada, the U.S., and elsewhere.
San Francisco: US$5,695,000
701 Buena Vista Ave. W
5 beds, 3.5 baths, 4,525 sq. ft.
(Trulia)
RELATED: Vancouver real estate is so crazy construction workers have to live under Skytrain tracks

New York City: US$5,795,000
845 Carroll St., Brooklyn
9 beds, 5 baths, 4,840 sq. ft.
(Trulia)

Or if you don’t mind the 35 to 40 minute commute to your office in Manhattan, there’s this:
Old Westbury, NY: US$5,099,000
5 Orchard Ln, Old Westbury, NY
7 beds, 10 baths, 10,000 sq…

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