From an exclusive – and expensive – strip of coastline on Vancouver Island and the shores of Lake Winnipeg to a Nova Scotia property with breathtaking ocean views, here are five listings that will have you living on the water.You’re paying close to $3-million because it has a huge deepwater dock that couldn’t be built today.
“In that Sooke Basin area, there’s no more development on water for docks,” said Mr. Piercy. The current owner uses it to run his chartered fishing business and it’s about seven minutes by boat to some of the best fishing grounds on Canada’s West coast.Maria Boschmann/HandoutListing agent Eddy Noll helped his client buy this cottage on Lake Winnipeg just last year, but changing circumstances put it back onto a rapidly changing marketplace.
Even if the market for recreational homes is off its frenzied peak, Mr. Noll is still fielding calls from out-of-province buyers regularly – much more than he did prior to the pandemic – and has one client in B.C. waiting to sell their house before they settle on a final budget to search for their own Manitoba waterfront dream.The single-level cottage is clad in planed-log siding and the interior has the proportions of a mid-century-modern bungalow.
That doesn’t mean that people are no longer buying, but rather that they take their time shopping for properties, like the family cottage outside Magnetowan, Ont., that went up for sale in July. At first Ms. Mireault built what you might call a hunting camp, a cottage barely 14 feet by 14 feet. “We did everything from scratch there was no road: we had to cut the trees and bulldoze the land, and had to carry stuff in by boat,” she said. Then, in 2019, she embarked on a major renovation adding a two-storey structure with three bedrooms and converting the old space into a large kitchen that open onto a new main-floor living room with sweeping views of the water.