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5625 GLIDE CRES. HARBOUR LANDING 469,900
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1577 sq. ft. two storey • 9’ Basement height, 9’ main floor ceiling • Open Web Trusts • Granite/Maple Cabinetry • 3 bedrooms plus bonus room • Stainless Steel Appliance Package • Attached 2 Car finished garage • Plus much more • MLS # 516309
www.glenrosehomes.ca
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4502 DELHAYE WAY, HARBOUR LANDING 499,000
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1718 sq. ft. two storey • 9’ Basement height, 9’ main floor ceiling • Open Web Trusts • Granite/Maple Cabinetry 3 bedrooms plus bonus room • Stainless Steel Appliance Package • Attached 2 Car finished garage • Plus much more • MLS # 516412
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What’s hot in housing for 2015? POSTMEDIA NEWS
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outh American-influenced sofa throws and Eurostyled kitchens. Greens and blues and whites vying to be the uber-popular colour of the year. Bigger laundry rooms and less condo construction. Housing trends are, as always, an unwieldy beast. Even so, Patrick Langston sneaks a peek at what’s hot and what’s not for 2015.
HOUSE DESIGN
Watch for everything from more dramatic entranceways to better storage space, according to Nick Lehnert of the Irvine, Calif.-based architecture and planning firm KTGY. He listed these and others in a September 2014 article on Builder.com. “If your homes don’t have at least half these items, you’re missing the market,” he says — and that, he confirms, includes the Canadian market. Not all builders are convinced Lehnert is right on every count, especially when it comes to his prediction that homes will continue to get smaller. Smaller homes are typi-
WATCH FOR EVERYTHING FROM MORE DR AMATIC ENTR ANCEWAYS TO BETTER STOR AGE SPACE NICK LEHNERT cally sought by first-time buyers, and that segment of the market has slowed, says Tamarack Homes’ Scott Parkes. The company is seeing move-up buyers, and “we’re selling more big homes.”
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POSTMEDIA NEWS files
Bathrooms continue to be oases of calm luxury with even more of a shift to clean, contemporary lines and free-standing or corner soaker bathtubs.
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www.northridgeregina.com STARTING AT:
$236,900 1-2
1-2
APARTMENT LIVING
DECEMBER 2014
ONLY $2,500 DOWN STARTING AT:
$294,900
Terrie Dunand RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Darryl Spanier RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
2-3
Joyce Tourney
2½
IN THE PARK
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STARTING AT:
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Meriel Gordon RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
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Natasha Blaisdell RE/MAX Joyce Tourney Realty
Carla Delaurier RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
• 234 UNIVERSITY PARK DR
James Wruth RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
2½
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$399,900
• 2350 2ND AVE.
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