Tag: real estate listing

• The $1.3M house built on a leftover triangle

  blogTO just wrote about 61 Seaton Street, which is a house on an atypical triangular lot in downtown Toronto and is on the market right now for $1,329,000. The story goes that this lot sat vacant for decades before architect Paul Reuber bought it in the late 1990s and took on Toronto’s zoning by-law to build what you see here. My rough estimate is that the lot is around 115 square metres, which isn’t that small, but it is a triangle:

  

  I love these kinds of irregular sites because they force creativity and offer a way to unlock hidden value. Our cities are full of neglected micro-parcels, but they often go undeveloped because of land-use policies or because the economics don’t work. Yet small or irregular sites are part of what gives cities their character. If any of you have an oddball parcel of land that has been sitting vacant for decades, drop me an email.

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  Parcel map from the City of Toronto

  2026.10.05

• Cascading house in Park City lists for $29,000,000

  We were having pizza at Davanza’s the other night and I started flipping through one of those real estate magazines that you find scattered around places like Park City.

  Now, more often than not, when I come across a house listed for tens of millions of dollars, I usually look at it and think to myself, “okay, I know this is a really expensive home and it is likely that someone will want to buy it, but I objectively don’t like it.”

  However, as I was flipping through the magazine, I came across this listing and instead thought, “hey, this is actually a really cool house.”

  Designed by Wallace Cunningham, the 8,000 sf home features a cascading roof line that looks like an “S” in plan. (It also seems like all of the interior spaces were laid out in service of this plan design, which, depending on your own architectural proclivities, could be considered either a perfectly fine thing or an arbitrary thing.)

  It’s an interesting house. So here’s a video tour.

  2023.02.22