Cowichan Lake Homes For Sale Under 10 Years Old
Very Little Has Been Built Here RecentlyCowichan Lake homes for sale under 10 years old make one of the shortest lists on this site. Almost everything around this lake went up between the 1950s and the 1990s, and the recent building has been a handful of custom houses and rebuilds rather than any subdivision.
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What does turn up is usually one of two things. Either somebody bought an old cabin, took it down and built the house they actually wanted, or a lot in or near the town of Lake Cowichan was built on by an owner rather than a developer. Both tend to be well finished, because the person building it intended to live in it.
The practical advantages are real. A house built to the newer BC Energy Step Code is tighter and cheaper to heat, and out here that matters because there is no natural gas and the alternative is electric baseboard or wood. Newer builds almost always come with a heat pump, better insulation and a roof and envelope with decades left in them.
Two things to confirm. A house under 10 years old may still carry part of its 2-5-10 warranty, which runs from occupancy rather than the year built, so I check the exact start date with the provider. And GST can apply on a first sale, which is a meaningful number on a new build, so I sort that out before we talk price rather than after.