Big Fat Deal: $30 million for a weekend warrior’s paradise in South Vancouver

BCBusiness takes you inside one of the most outrageously upmarket real estate offerings in the province.

BCBusiness takes you inside one of the most outrageously upmarket real estate offerings in the province

Address: 1188 West 55th Avenue

Price: $29,800,000

Listing: R2554931

The skinny: Eight-bedroom, 12-bathroom, 15,371 square foot house on an acre of land in South Vancouver.

The bling: I know, you looked at the price of this place and pictured Shaughnessy or Chip Wilson Way (okay, Point Grey Road). Then you saw the address with a 55 in the street name. “No way,” you thought. “Sure, there are some nice places north of 41st, but $30 million for South Oak?”

It’s true. For here lies a property just off the not very beaten path that might not look like anything particularly special from the front gate (though the gate itself should be something of a tipoff) but hides a verifiable palace of a well-to-do person’s dreams.

Let’s start inside, where you’ll find a huge kitchen, multiple dens, eight bedrooms, 12 bathrooms (!), five fireplaces and an aquarium the size of a few one-bedroom apartments in Mount Pleasant. This place has its own elevator; the layout plan looks like the blueprints they use to break into the casino in Oceans 11. Oh, and there’s an indoor pool.

That’s just the start of the old white person’s sports haven at 1188, as you walk outside to where there really should be another lot but instead there’s what appears to be a pitch-and-putt-sized par 3 golf hole. There’s even a sand trap and a small creek! Go a little further and you’ll find a gazebo and a regulation tennis court, complete with overhead lights. Man, you could be a weekend warrior three times over just by hanging out on this property.

The hidden extras: What have we missed? There’s a wine cellar, an exercise room and approximately five different patios.