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VANCOUVER — A $6.2-million home in the Point Grey neighbourhood of Vancouver that has been left to rot by a Chinese real estate tycoon is now on the market for $7.2 million.

In early February, Postmedia News reported that the home — in the 4100-block West 8th Avenue, purchased for $4.6 million in July 2011 by Huaican Ren and his wife Xuepei Sun — was subject to a City of Vancouver “untidy premises” order.

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Huaican Ren is the founder of a number of China-based companies with interests in real estate development, as well as gemstones, retailing, tourism, and restaurants. His wife is a shareholder in companies.

According to the Global Real Estate Institute, Huaican Ren is chairman of Kunming North Star Enterprise Company Limited and is among “the world’s leading real estate players.”