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The $6.2-million Point Grey home boasts unobstructed vistas of the North Shore mountains, English Bay and Vancouver’s skyline.

A park sits across a quiet street. The home represents everything a family could aspire to.

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But it’s vacant and rotting. Windows are left open and debris sits in the yard. Like a symbol of futility, a June 2015 City of Vancouver “untidy-premises” order remains pinned to the door.

The 1926-built home’s issues seem to encapsulate a rising tide of angst revealed on websites documenting vacant homes and “bulldozer-bait” teardowns in Vancouver.

City hall is currently trying to estimate how many Vancouver homes are vacant. And these online communities are anecdotally gathering photo evidence and coming to conclusions that offshore investment is to blame.

“That is what is driving everything,” said Caroline Adderson, whose website, Vancouver Vanishes, has over 8,000 followers. “It is sickening on all levels.”