A meticulously maintained and beautifully updated two-storey, four-bedroom home with a gorgeous, private side yard oasis featuring perennial gardens and a heated in-ground salt-water pool - all in one of Ottawa's most accessible urban neighbourhoods - Elmvale Acres (Urbandale). You could not re-create this dwelling in this location for twice the price - from an impressive architectural retaining wall comprising 14 tons of armor stone hauled in from Port Dover, Ontario, to porcelain tiles, refinished hardwood, contemporary kitchen with brand new appliances, vaulted ceilings in all second floor rooms, upgraded 200 amp electrical service and panel feeding a re-wired kitchen, powder room and key exterior areas, freshly paved driveway, and new Verdun windows (25 year warranty from 2026), you will not find a more rewarding purchase.

This home was remarkable and it will be very difficult to find one in such amazing shape in Elmvale Acres, with everything this home had to offer, for this price in future. You missed your chance. But there is always another home, and we can always selectively and patiently monitor the market until the latest greatest home appears, and then work to secure it on fair terms.

Thinking of selling in Elmvale Acres? Bruce consulted with owners of a home kitty-corner to this one, concurrent with working on this one. The other owners elected to hire someone else. Their home sold for $692,000. Bruce helped his clients sell for $818,500. It is always a team effort - the other sellers didn't have the energy to make recommended improvements to the home nor to follow our marketing plan that focuses on your benefit rather than ours (we eliminate disruptive open houses, do not try to pre-sell the house before proper market exposure, etc.)

As of writing this description, there were 25 detached homes for sale in the greater Elmvale Acres area - only 3 are two-storey models.  Other models are considerably smaller in livable square footage above grade.

How is life in your new home? Drive 15 minutes to downtown, walk 3 minutes to grab the bus or it's 2.5 km to the closest O-Train station, walk less than 20 minutes to 4 parks, 4 tennis courts, 4 rinks, 4 basketball courts, 8 ball diamonds, 4 splash pads. The Canterbury Recreation Centre is a 6 minute stroll.

You are in Ottawa Hospital General Campus territory, you are in the catchment of 6 great schools with both English and French options and for the artistically inclined you are a 12 minute walk to Ottawa's most coveted programme at Canterbury High School.

Let's not forget those peaceful mornings, lingering evenings, and relieving dips on hot Summer days (ever experience those??) surrounded by pure beauty in one of the cosiest gardens you'll find.