Described recently by the South China Morning Post, and subsequently the BBC, as a “freakshow,” Vancouver’s real estate market has lost touch with local incomes and reality.

Richmond is not spared this circus act and there’s no better example of this than the Brighouse-Blundell neighbourhood southwest of Minoru Park. Mansions, or mega homes, such as those along Chatterton and Mang roads, that are anywhere from 10-25 years-old, are being demolished in place of newer homes with three-car garages and few replacement trees.

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The homes are being sold for upwards of $5 million and many appear unkept, with garbage and overgrown grass along the front.

This $5 million home was purchased and promptly abandoned. Mang Road, Richmond. May 2016.