WINNIPEG – Know a Winnipegger in the market for an $11-million house?
Yeah, we didn’t think so.
A Wellington Crescent home built in 2006 after media magnate Israel Asper’s home was bulldozed has been listed for sale at $11 million.
“When you have nothing left to prove!” the MLS listing for 1063 Wellington blasts in all capital letters. “This is an art deco European gated estate that took six years to build! Live luxuriously, entertain impressively and relax unconditionally.”
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It’s a record listing price for a 27,000-square-foot home that likely wasn’t built as an investment in a city known for working-class money-savers. The previous Winnipeg MLS listing record was a Tuxedo home listed over $7 million that was eventually taken off MLS and later sold for closer to $6 million, said Peter Squire of Winnipeg Realtors.
“It didn’t sell on MLS,” Squire said.
The highest amount an MLS listing has been sold for is $2.2 million, he said.
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The closest most Winnipeggers will ever get to such a house is a stroll through our photo gallery – so enjoy and try not to think about what it would be like to live in a house with 24 rooms, including two dens, two offices, a recreation room, a games room, a hobby room, a wine cellar, a great room, a family room and five spacious rooms simply listed as “other.”
The indoor pool. We’d swim there. All of us. The whole newsroom, with space for guests.
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You know you’re rich when someone wants to go for a swim in the pool and you can say, “Indoor or outdoor?”
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There better be a second hot tub outside.
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Welcome to our humble abode. Let’s go find some furniture.
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Imagine the parties. Where would you put the band? Up on the balcony?
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The view of the living room from the other overhanging balcony.
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The living room from one of the balconies that run along two walls.
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James? More wine, please. I think the Domaine Leroy Chambertin Grand Cru would go well with this meal.
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If you can afford this house, you probably don’t need to spend much time in this room.
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It’s probably made out of some near-extinct tree, but parquet? Is that really a thing again?
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No, it’s not the dining room – look at the walls. This is the wine cellar. James, I’m going to need a little more bread before the next bottle.
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When the stair landing is bigger than most living rooms … we don’t even know what to say.
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The master bedroom is disappointing. It may be bigger than the second floor of most of our houses, but you’d think the stagers could have found better furniture than that.
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There would be a pink canopy bed for the princess, of course.
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Not an elevator. This is the bathroom. That’s – we’re not sure how many showers you can say that is.
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We’d go here before we’d try out most resorts’ gyms.
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Where’s the popcorn machine?
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The listing describes this as a “quaint guest cottage.” You mean it’s not the children’s treehouse? If it were ours, it would totally be the kids’ digs.
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For your art deco European gated estate there must be a circular drive, but why isn’t the staff waiting by the door?
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For a mere $11 million, all this can be yours.
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