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It will definitely end up attracting more clicks than dollars and a Nova Scotia realtor is trying to understand how her three-day-old listing has gone viral, attracting potential buyers from as far away as Toronto and Vancouver.

“I swear I don’t know why everybody is looking at it. It’s just one of those things,” says Wanda Graves, a realtor with Eastern Valley Real Estate Ltd., about the 7,000 square foot home listed at $434,900 that has attracted 800,000 views and counting. “We just keep sweeping through all the inquiries.”

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Normally, her firm’s website might attract 1,000 views over three months but 98 Avondale Rd. — close to 50 minutes by car from the metropolitan Halifax region — is capturing the imagination of Canadians from coast to coast and even as far away as Ireland. She has buyers flying in from Toronto and British Columbia for a showing in the next few days.

So what are you getting for your money? For starters, a lot more than 500 square feet in the wrong part of town in Vancouver or Toronto. Built in 1910, the home looks like something out of the British drama Downton Abbey.