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A cube-shaped house on Vancouver’s tony Point Grey Road which had raised some eyebrows due to its ultra-modern design has been sold.

The 3,709-square-foot house sold last month for $7.65 million — about a year after it went on the market and down from its original list price of $14 million.

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Despite taking a year to sell, there was no lack of interest from potential buyers, said realtor Loren Dunsworth. But while the house appealed to a lot of people, the pool of serious buyers was more limited.

“It’s a very specific kind of buyer,” she said. “Two bedrooms isn’t for everybody at that price point, and not everybody needed a huge garage.”

But, she added, “everyone loved the deck.”

The corner-lot property was purchased in 2014 for $3.5 million. It is assessed this year at more than $7.4 million, up from last year’s assessed value of about $6.2 million.

During construction, the house was the subject of much chatter among neighbours, passersby and architecture aficionados because of its cube-shape and distinctive front facade of dark galvanized steel on the upper levels with no windows on the south side, lending it the look of a concrete bunker.