Buyer lands customized Rosedale estate with four-season pool for $13-million

3 Douglas Dr., Toronto (Rosedale)

Asking value: $13.8-million (April, 2021)

Selling value: $13-milllion (May, 2021)

Prior selling value: Not applicable

Taxes: $20,420 (2021)

Times on the market: 48

Listing brokers: Nigel Denham, Penny Brown and Robert Nelson, Sotheby’s Intercontinental Realty Canada

Buyer’s agent:  Sean Atrie, Royal LePage Signature Realty

The motion

In 2019, this 5-bed room property was custom built on a 50-foot-by-162-foot ton mostly surrounded by heritage-selected residences. The brokers predicted quite a few months of marketing to get to potential buyers who could manage the $13.8-million listing cost, which integrated all furnishings. It took 7 weeks for two potential buyers to arise.

“There ended up a couple other choices obtainable off market place that have been a lot more costly than us and there had been a couple other houses in the $10-million vary, which have been pleasant in their very own correct, but did not hold a candle to ours,” agent Nigel Denham stated.

“We had two gives at the exact time ironically, and they were being from two of the 1st folks by way of. It is not the initially time it has transpired.”

What they received

This 4,489-square-foot property has grand lodging and remarkable facts all over, these kinds of as bedrooms with 12-foot ceilings on the 2nd ground.

“[The sellers] have been able to function build a model new home ideal out of the ground which involved a lot more modern accoutrements,” Mr. Denham claimed.

Intensive millwork dressed up the official place of work, the dining room, as properly as the mixed kitchen and loved ones room with a two-sided fire. There are also various French patio doors to a south-struggling with loggia and kitchen area.

The 2,369-sq.-foot basement delivers nanny quarters, a glass-enclosed health club, a property theatre and recreation place with a two-level playhouse.

The agent’s take

The house also comes with “a extremely exceptional 3-car or truck, connected garage with immediate accessibility to the dwelling,” Mr. Denham said. “Generally, the housing inventory in Rosedale you have obtained a two-auto garage and it is detached.”

Yet another luxurious is heated flooring just about everywhere inside and beneath the driveway, pathways and patio.

“Literally in the middle of a snowstorm in February, you could wander from your coated, heated loggia to the pool, scorching tub or pool household sauna with out having snow on your toes,” he stated.

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