Fiona Morrow

Address: 1409 West 38th Avenue, Vancouver Price: $8,680,000 Listing: R2311567 The skinny: Six-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 5,779-square-foot house on a 8,941-square-foot lot in Shaughnessy The bling: It’s a stressful time, we know. No matter how much help the great unwashed are given, just like Billy Idol’s favourite rebel, they...

Address: 3870 Commercial Street, East Vancouver Price: $7,450,000 Listing: R2310009 The skinny: Three-bedroom, six-bathroom, 7,301-square-foot house on a 3,861-square-foot lot The bling: Oh, brother! This one’s for you. The parents have had enough of you and all your boy toys cluttering up their elegantly large slice of luxury living...

Address: 1098 Wolfe Avenue, Vancouver Price: $12,980,000 Listing: R2307754 The skinny: Five-bedroom, six-bathroom, 5,766-square-foot house on a 17,991-square-foot lot in Shaughnessy The bling: It’s time you had it all. It really is. Living in the city can be such a drag—all those people getting in your way, parking...

Address: 3491 Barmond Avenue, Richmond Price: $4,880,000 Listing: R2293726 The skinny: Five-bedroom, six-bathroom, 3,518-square-foot house on a 7,921-square-foot lot in Richmond The bling: Being excessively wealthy is not without challenges, we know. It’s easy to be envied by your employees (business and domestic) and...

Address: 1 Fawn Bluff Cove, Bute Inlet Price: $28,800,000 Listing:R2210154 The skinny: Four-building, 11-bedroom, 13-bathroom, 12,955-square-foot fishing lodge on 340 acres on Bute Inlet The bling: Here’s a nice luxury solution to an ever-growing problem otherwise known as the destabilization of the free world. Yes, we’d like...

Address: 26122 82 Avenue, Langley Price: $5,250,000 Listing: R2240045 The skinny: Five-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 6,777-square-foot house on a 10-acre estate in Langley The bling: If money really does talk, then boy oh boy, it’s screaming at the top of its lungs over in Langley. That’s right: no matter that this...

Address: 4580 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Price: $16,580,000 Listing: R2281521 The skinny: Five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 6,220-square-foot house on a 14,381-square-foot lot in West Van The bling: Oh my eyes! What a load of old shiny: you could eat yer dinner off any surface in this place, mate.

Address: 2501-1020 Harwood Street, Vancouver Price: $11,500,000 Listing: R2274555 The skinny: Three-bedroom, four-bathroom, 4,623-square-foot penthouse in Vancouver’s West End The bling: Well, for starters, it’s a penthouse. If you’re going to live big and fat and also be in a condo, you absolutely must have a PH...

Address: 1243 Chartwell Place, West Vancouver Price: $39,900,000 Listing: R2285544 The skinny: Six-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 20,279 square feet on 2.82 acres in West Vancouver The bling: Rich people do the darndest things sometimes. Take this week’s load of luxury, for example. In 2012, this was sold as an everyday...

Address: 2403 Rocky Point Road, Blind Bay Price: $6,800,000 Listing: 10163921 The skinny: Two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 864-square-foot cabin on 4.62 acres of forested land on Shuswap Lake The bling: Roll up, roll up! Here’s a blinding bit of bona fide 1950s Canadiana for you. Yes, that’s right, folks: for...

Address: 2458 Yale Street, Vancouver Price: $4,350,000 Listing: R2285200 The skinny: Seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 3,755-square-foot house on a 4,135-square-foot lot in Hastings-Sunrise The bling: Tired of city streets? The relentless traffic? The whole being trapped in the daily grind with the great unwashed? Does just being outside make you feel...

Address: 619/615 Lakeview Road, Windermere Price: $4,700,000 Listing: 2430211 The skinny: Three separate houses with 6,000 square feet of living space on three-quarters of an acre of lakeshore in the Kootenays The bling: Are you ready to break free and live your unorthodox life? It’s the...