SOLD! Condo living isn’t for everyone. It’s not for me, not yet anyway. Not while I still enjoy (sort of) shoveling my own driveway, and tending every year to my old house’s groans and creaks like it’s some delicate aunt with expensive tastes.
Sold
$348,500
377 MOWAT AVENUE - SOLD!
SOLD! I’ve been lucky enough to list some really marvelous houses in recent months. The steel and glass home on Tacoma comes to mind (if that house was downtown I would have tried to buy it myself). Or the fantastic and ecologically sensitive house for sale now on Trailhead Place. I have the same sort of enthusiasm for...
$838,000
1168 TRAILHEAD PLACE - ARTS AND CRAFTS BUNGALOW
If you make to leave downtown Kingston and choose King St as your preferred exit route you’ll drive along Kingston’s waterfront, past the Time sculpture and up the hill to the old Kingston Penitentiary and then down again into the Olympic Harbour and beautiful Portsmouth Village. From there it’s on past St Lawrence College and the Cataraqui Golf Course...
$334,900
67 JOHN ST
SOLD! I must admit that I am taken nearly as much with what is behind this house, as with the careful transformation the house itself has undergone in the last two years. Because behind the back fence is the lovely St. John’s Catholic church. I’ll never have reason to step inside, I don’t suppose...
$292,500
97 QUEBEC ST
SOLD! It’s not that I find the front of this new listing unattractive – far from it, I actually think the house is adorable – but I’ve chosen to show you its back-side above because I think it tells you more about the house. That’s true in a literal sense, of course, in that you get a glimpse of the old block garage, and the blossom trees, and the pretty yard.
$259,000
126 RAGLAN ROAD - A NEW LISTING
SOLD! The area immediately north of McBurney Park, and on into the fruit belt, is my favourite in the city. That’s why I live there and why I have no intention of leaving anytime soon. This new listing at 126 Raglan Road is as fine a way for you to join this community as I’ve seen in recent months.
$189,900
270 YONGE ST - A NEW LISTING
SOLD! Not every house can be an architectural wonder. Not every home is going to make you drop the newspaper, or run for the telephone, and start packing up the kids’ rooms. Most listings are for more modest homes, and 270 Yonge St is just such a place.
$449,900
733 TACOMA CRESCENT
SOLD! I can see myself living in this house on Tacoma Crescent, in west-end Kingston. I’d be happy here (deliriously so). My kids would be happy too (the property backs on to a quiet park), and my partner, well, she’d be thrilled. Not that there’s anything wrong with where I live now (far from it), it’s just that seriously modern and provocative houses like this one come along so rarely...
$339,900
142 JAMES ST
SOLD! The sellers of this home have moved recently to Germany. They thought they might return but one of life’s tidal surges has now swept them more permanently overseas. And so, if you’re looking for a brick home well-renovated, then their move away is to your distinct advantage.
$384,900
59 QUEBEC ST
SOLD! I’ve realised in recent months that Quebec St, down the hill from McBurney Park in downtown Kingston, is an address that has has some real cache. It’s a pretty little street ,where everyone knows each other. Whenever I pull up outside this grand new listing there seem to be people out roadside talking to each other, leaning on a broom, or else there’s a grinning kid beepbeeping on a scooter.
