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OSLO, Norway — Canada has created a rare buzz in one of the most super-charged real estate markets in the world by announcing that it hopes to realize as much as 120-million kroner — $20-million — from the sale of its ambassador’s mansion in the swank Oslo suburb of Bygdoy.

One of Norway’s most influential business newspapers, Finansavisen, devoted most of its front page and two inside pages to the sale of the Bygdoy estate after advertisements appeared in Norwegian newspapers and in the Financial Times.

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There have been no takers since the sprawling heritage property went on sale a few weeks ago, according to one of the Norwegian lawyers acting for Canada in the sale of the exclusive property.

“We have no bids, but a lot of people have been looking at the residence,” said Johan Kjetil Hoegevold. “It is one of the best properties in Oslo, there is no doubt about that. It is a superb home.”

Jon Kvisgaard, who handles luxury properties for real estate firm Privat Megleren Residence, which has no part in the sale, was even more effusive.