An eight-foot-wide $1. 95 million Toronto property — which includes a bedroom with a toilet in the middle of it —is eliciting confusion, outrage, and mass schadenfreude across the internet. Realtor Nero Naveendran’s TikTok tour of the Little Portugal property quickly garnered more than 2.
5 million views from bewildered viewers fixated on the home’s unusual design and narrowness. In the video, Naveendran walks quickly through one unit in the three-story, three-unit building. Its sunlit kitchen has trendy open shelving, one very small sink, and what appears to be only a microwave and detached electric radiant cooktop as the room’s functional cooking appliances.
The bedroom offers what is arguably the apartment’s most questionable feature: a solitary toilet installed out in the open in the corner of the room. Keven Trudel, who is managing the listing , did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment, but Naveendran told Insider it’s the only toilet in the unit. “The toilet in the bedroom was a shocker for me as well! I’ve never seen that before in a home, and I’ve seen hundreds,” he said.
On TikTok, users carried on a de-facto roast of the unit. Some pointed out that the open-area toilet was reminiscent of a prison cell, while others were aghast at the price-per-square-foot: $1,151. “Bro thinks someone would pay 2mil for a staircase,” read one popular comment, with others describing the listing as “almost 2 mil for half of a house.
” Naveendran told Insider the house is unusually narrow for the area, and noted that his video only showed one unit in the building while there are actually three. According to the property listing the 1693-square-foot home is “divided into three separate residential units, each with its own private entrance but could easily be converted back into a single-family home. ” The property includes three refrigerators, three electric radiant cook tops (though it doesn’t specify if they’re all detached plug-in devices), three microwaves, a parking spot, and a single laundry machine.
The median selling price of a home in the millennial enclave of Little Portugal is $748,000 according to Canadian real estate site Zolo . But for detached units, Naveendran says, properties average around $1. 5 million.
According to RE/MAX Canada’s 2022 Housing Inventory Report , home prices across Canada are on the rise and are projected to hit a crisis point soon, as housing inventory continues to decline. “Population growth and household formation have played a significant role in depleting inventory levels from coast to coast over the most recent decade, triggering chronic housing shortages in large urban centers that resulted in mini ‘boom’ and ‘bust’ cycles,” Christopher Alexander, President, RE/MAX Canada, said according to the report . “If we don’t move now to build more housing in the current lull, it’s expected that this same scenario will continue to resurface over and over again.
” Despite the competitive market, the property has been on the market for 20 days. That’s not surprising to Naveendran, who says the home may be a hard sell. “The owner could have done it differently, but I don’t think it mattered to him that much,” he said, of installing a toilet in the middle of the bedroom.
“Personally, that was a dealbreaker for me. “.
From: insider
URL: https://www.insider.com/2-million-container-home-with-toilet-in-bedroom-tiktok-2022-9
