Blog about Gabriola Island

Beautiful home relatively close to The Haven, Gabriola's Timberframe Building School, and the Silva Bay Boat Building School on Gabriola. This home has 2 bedrooms, 2 four-piece bathrooms plus studio in pristine condition. Property is gently contoured, west facing, end of a cul-de-sac, providing a private setting on almost 1 acre. Gardens are fenced, and there's a seasonal pond. Wrap around driveway takes you to the upper level, or drive right up to the ground level entry. A unique home, built in...

Sold 1276 Harrison Way, Gabriola, $285,000.  Privacy, westcoast style. And since you really can't see it all from the street, set up your appointment to view. This substantial house boasts French doors onto the deck, covered veranda for summer shade, and large kitchen overlooking acreage which borders the back yard. For your guests, their very own entrance from the ground floor level including den and bathroom. Or, consider this: a studio or office with all the conveniences. Attached carpor...

Sold $250,000 982 Dirksen on Gabriola.  Nice family home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fairly private property, close to our Village, services, ferry, elementary school, parks and beaches.  New roof installed June 2011. Potentially, a home based business could benefit from the traffic exposure that this home delivers. Lots of off the street parking and an attached carport, with extra storage. Perfect starter, retirement, or consider an investment property with your tenants. A little Englis...

The automotive industry may be one of the world’s most important sectors wherein companies manufacturing cars and other vehicles have been, in fact, hungry of innovation.  Leaders in this industry and even the small players have diversified the attempts on how such innovation will be realized through effecting modern strategies that meet not only the need to upgrade automotive technology but also to solve global predicaments such as the soaring prices
of gas and the pressing envi...

Not all real estate practitioners are REALTORS®. The term REALTOR® is a registered trademark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. Here’s why it pays to work with a REALTOR®.  I am a member of NAR, have their permission to share this with you.  Gabriola Island is a wonderful place to live, raise your family, retire to a community rich in i’s heritage, a...

The beauty of real estate is the very idea of providing homes for individuals or families. There is a touch  of sentiment that a Realtor can express to someone looking for a house and the first hand of experience of having viewed several homes to give the proper and best advice to a client. Realtors can work their
magic at finding you the best home for yourself or your family.  Here are a few benefits of hiring a realtor to help you.  We know the market.  We can provide ...

WANTED: Someone who appreciates awesome views every morning,and for the rest of your life. Living in a private park-like estate on a bluff overlooking Northumberland Strait. With expansive Vancouver Island Mountains in the background. Your new lifestyle features a 2750 sf west coast style, south facing home on 3 levels. With state of the art home comfort systems throughout. It is also an operating B&B with bicycle and scooter rentals, a turnkey operation. You have to see it! To believe it! C...

Coast Realty’s Community Day, Thursday, May 27, 2010 found us at our Gabriola Museum pulling garden tools, rakes, snips, wheelbarrows and tarps out of the back of our cars for a full day of a landscape face-lift. Most plants are indigenous to our natural habitat and were in dire need of care and more sunshine. Rakes flying, snips snipping, piles of underbrush were gathered and burned or composted or chipped-up and all done with smiles, laughter and determination to get the job done in one ...