MLS® 303643 – $369,900
I’m pleased to present this beautiful family home now available in the Broom Hill area of Sooke. On a quiet cul-de-sac you’ll find this 1725 sqft, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom rancher on nearly a quarter acre…
With all the space that a family needs, you’ll just fall in love with this well-maintained home and all it has to offer. A spacious kitchen, a fenced back yard, double garage, master with ensuite bath – this house has it all. For complete information, including a floor plan, lots more pictures, and a high-definition walk-through video tour, please visit this property on my marketing site at TimAyres.ca/98. If you have any questions, contact me!
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SOLD! Here’s an opportunity for inexpensive living in a family-friendly park close to transit, schools, and all amenities in Sooke! This nicely updated, clean and tidy 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 960 sqft manufactured home is just waiting for somebody to move right in! It’s wheelchair accessible and features many updates. Have a look at http://TimAyres.ca/97 for more information, pictures, or to book your personal tour!
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6463 Willowpark Way, Sunriver Estates, Sooke
Welcome to a new series on What The Sooke!? Each week, I’m going to profile one of my current listings. If you’ve ever checked out my listings before, you know that I’m pretty descriptive and I do my utmost to tell a story about the property I am representing. However, there’s only so much I can do to tell you about my listings, since I don’t live in them! So, I’ve sent out a short questionnaire to the sellers, who’ll tell me in their own words why their property is special.
6463 Willowpark Way is a Driftwood plan in Sunriver Estates, but it’s like no other in the neighbourhood. Here’s what I had to say about this amazing property, and below, let’s ask C. & C., the owners, why their home is great.
What are your top three favourite features of your home and why?
- For me one of my favourite features is the fireplace, it’s unique being polished cement, but in an understated way.
- The yard is a great size for either dogs or kids. The dogs can actually get some speed going when running for the ball.
- I just love all the [extra] windows, it’s nice and bright, I couldn’t live in a dark house.
Custom, unique polished concrete fireplace
Huge, fully fenced yard
The den has one of several extra custom windows
What’s special about your home’s location? Tell me about the neighbourhood and why you like it.
It’s a nice neighbourhood with a lot of really nice people around you. It is the perfect kids and dog neighbourhood. I often land up going down to the river on the trail with the dogs, and have scoped out the best 5k and 10k running loop incorporating both hill training and trail running. Generally all the neighbours care about and for their property and seem to take care of things that need to be done.
There are lots of homes for sale right now, why should a buyer choose yours?
Generally what I love most about the house is how all the various items came together, this includes the lighting, the dark cabinets, the fireplace and the colours. Everything just seem to come together nicely and provide for a comfortable, nicely presented home.
The kitchen is a favourite room
For more information or to book a private tour of this amazing property, contact your REALTOR®, or see TimAyres.ca/93 today!
$364,900
Great value in this awesome, updated, nearly 1900 sqft family home on a quiet residential street in central Sooke. Set on a level, fenced lot with a newer roof and plenty of updates. 1 bedroom suite for inlaws or mortgage helper! Lots of photos, a floor plan, video tour, and more at http://TimAyres.ca/95
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6463 Willowpark Way, MLS® 296848
$419,900
This incredible executive-style home features incredible value built in with its many, many extras and upgrades. It is priced well below replacement value and there simply is nothing like it in Sunriver Estates! At 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, and approximately 1750 sqft of living space, this stylish residence is ready for new owners to love it as much as the current ones do. From top to bottom, nothing has been left out – custom light fixtures throughout the home, double garage, brand new exterior paint, new ‘hand-scraped’ floors, ceramic tile, custom matching cabinetry in the kitchen and bathrooms, heated tile floors, crown molding, additional pot lights, a slick custom polished concrete fireplace mantel, gas stove and BBQ outlet, super high-end appliances, the list goes on and on! Lots more information at http://TimAyres.ca/93 including a floor plan and video walk-through. If you’re looking in Sunriver Estates, you definitely need to get inside this home!
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Amazing views from both homes on this property
THIS PROPERTY IS NOW SOLD! To get Tim working for you, call 250-885-0512 or email Tim@TimAyres.ca
Just 7 minutes from the centre of Sooke along the scenic West Coast Road is this outstanding opportunity to own two houses on one 2.76 acre ocean view property. Hear the waves crashing on the rocky shore below – you’re so close it feels like waterfront property!
The first house is a rancher with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms – currently split into separate bachelor and one bedroom units (easily converted back). The second is a charming A-frame style cottage with 2 bedrooms plus a loft and one bathroom. It sits over an undeveloped basement/crawlspace best used for storage or a workshop. The property slopes sharply from the road but then levels off for nearly unlimited potential uses (horses? hobby farm?) with some tree clearing. Complete information can be found at http://TimAyres.ca/78.
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$229,900 SOLD!
Rarely does such a large one bedroom unit become available! At over 840 square feet, this stylish and conveniently located townhouse-style condo is hard to beat. Perfect for couples of all ages, especially retirees, this stair-free unit exemplifies one-level living at its finest. With a large, sunny kitchen including stainless steel appliances, electric fireplace, open living and dining room and wide hallways, you’ll feel right at home. Right near schools, shopping, pubs and restaurants, and convenient to highway 1. Lots more information, pictures, a video tour, floor plan, and more at http://TimAyres.ca/90
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SOLD! To get Tim working for you, call 250-885-0512 or email Tim@TimAyres.ca
Step inside this wonderfully updated and maintained family home with over 2400 square feet of space. This home is located just a short stroll from Whiffen Spit Park, a very popular seaside stroll in the town of Sooke. Inside, you’ll love the gleaming hardwood floors and updated kitchen, bath, and lighting. Downstairs is a bright, very large 2 bedroom suite, which would rent out very easily or would accommodate your extended family perfectly. Outside, the nearly quarter-acre lot is beautifully landscaped, including a tranquil water garden. There are numerous sunny and shady spots in the south-facing back yard – take your pick. More information, pictures, floor plan, and video can be seen at http://TimAyres.ca/91
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Wild Coast Cottages, Port Renfrew
Today, instead of our usual Sooke REALTOR® tour where we go around to the new listings in Sooke, we had a bus take us out to Port Renfrew for a tour of Three Point Properties‘ new Wild Coast Cottages development. The roughly one hour drive along Highway 14 is entirely different when you’re not driving – lots more time to look around at the absolutely stunning scenery around you: creeks, waterfalls, tall trees, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Olympic Mountains in the background. We even saw three black bears along the roadside.
Arriving on site we found a hub of activity – excavators, builders, trucks, and other workers getting the site ready. Title registration for the first purchasers should be coming in the middle of August. There are already two cottages at the site, one of each floor plan that they’re offering at the moment.
Wild Coast Cottages is more that your average cottage country development. With the usually high cost of recreational property, Three Point is trying to do something different – to keep these architecturally designed west-coast style cottages within reach of the average buyer. To do this has taken innovation for sure. Port Renfrew is pretty remote, and only has a population of about 200 residents. There are no hardware stores, building supply outfits, or large construction companies. So, instead of building the cottages on site, they are framed, built and completely finished, right down to the designer paint colours, 70 kilometres away in Sooke, and trucked up to Renfrew on a flatbed. This enables the builder to save on travel costs, and allows some economies of scale to be realized by “mass-producing” these cottages all in one place.
A breezeway connects the bedroom (pictured) with the living space
The current phase has 24 lots out of the 40 planned, and Three Point has more property in the area that they plan to develop similarly. The property is waterfront, and the cottage owners will have access to a boardwalk and a marina.
The cottages are small – around 400 sq ft, one bedroom and one bathroom. Furnished properly, they will easily sleep a family or group of 4. The two designs they had on site were lovely. One features a breezeway type covered deck joining the living space and the sleeping space and bathroom, and the other was a more traditional layout with everything together and a large deck out front. Finishing is impressive with natural-stained cedar, hardi-board type siding, pitched 50-year metal roofs, and high-end long-lasting composite decking material. These solid units are built to last, and built to withstand the bumpy ride from Sooke to Port Renfrew! The builder boasted that not even a crack in the finished drywall was evident after the transport of the finished cottage to the site.
Small, but ample living spaces define the Wild Coast Cottages
Pull out couch, full kitchen and living/dining space
Wild Coast Cottages sits on gorgeous high-bank waterfront
Overall, I was impressed. I was curious about this project since I first heard about it. Starting at $130,000 and ranging to $160,000 I think the price point is right on. There’s no way you could have a cottage built on a lot for that price, and certainly not a fully serviced (underground wiring, city water, common sewage disposal) lot on a waterfront development.
I won’t be surprised when Three Point sells this phase out.
-Tim Ayres – Sooke Real Estate Professional
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House for Sale in Sooke
Ah… springtime… when a young person’s thoughts turn to… buying a home, of course! The spring market is here, and many first-time buyers are taking advantage of record low interest rates and making the jump into their own homes.
How much do you need and how can you save for a down payment? What’s the best type of mortgage for you? What homes are available and what sorts of programs are out there to help a first-time buyer?
How will the upcoming mortgage rule changes affect my affordability? Will the HST spoil my dream of home ownership?
All these questions and more will be answered at a fun, free, interactive seminar I’m putting on next month with two other professionals.
A Certified Financial Planner will talk about how to save for that ever-important down payment, and government programs to assist home buyers. Find out the details of how to borrow from your RRSP tax-free to help you buy a house, and other tricks of the trade.
Robert Boyd, Mortgage Expert with Dominion Lending will present on the various types of mortgages that are available, how to apply, and how to get the best rate possible to save you money. Learn about mortgages and rates, amortization and prepayment and take the mystery out of mortgages
Tim Ayres (that’s me!), REALTOR® with Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty will walk you through the home-buying process – how we search for a home together, showings, offers, negotiation and finally, getting the keys to your new home. Find out what to look for, how to ensure you get what you need, and how having an experienced REALTOR® on your side can help.
When: Tuesday, March 30th, 2010, 7PM.
Where: Investors Group Westshore office, 201 – 630 Goldstream [map] – [street view]
The seminar is free, but we have limited space, so please phone me at 250-885-0512, fill in the form below or visit TimAyres.ca/seminars for more information.
-Tim Ayres – Sooke Real Estate Professional
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