South Vancouver Island Homes with Pools For Sale
A Small Club of Houses, and How to Judge OneSouth Vancouver Island homes with pools for sale are a short list. The climate here rewards a pool for four months and asks you to pay for it all twelve, so the ones that exist tend to sit on larger, sunnier lots in Saanich, Oak Bay, Central Saanich and the rural edge of Metchosin.
Ask what heats it and what that costs. A heat pump pool in Saanich can run a full season at a sensible number, while an older gas heater on a large uncovered pool is a different bill entirely. Get last year figures from the seller before you decide the pool is a plus.
Condition does not show up in listing photos. Liner age, shell cracks, the pump, the filter and the safety fencing are the expensive parts, and many of these pools went in during the 1970s and 1980s. A pool inspection is a separate trade from a house inspection and it is worth the fee.
Decide whether you want the pool or the lot that holds it. Pool homes usually come with the flattest, sunniest and most private yard on the street. Some of my buyers keep the pool and some fill it in and gain a garden, and both are sensible outcomes for the same purchase.