One of Westmount’s Most Extensively Renewed Character Homes.

10834 125 ST | Charles Barker Residence

The Charles Barker Residence had stood in Westmount since 1912. It had survived more than a century of Edmonton history, been carefully restored, formally designated as a Municipal Historic Resource and remained in the same family for nearly four decades.

When it came time to sell, my job was bigger than putting it on MLS.

I needed buyers to understand what they were looking at.

The result: sold in under two weeks for 100% of list price.



Marketing all 114 years

Before 10834 125 Street went to market, I researched its history. Building permits. Historic records. Previous owners. Newspaper archives. Architectural details. The major restoration work that preserved the original residence while fundamentally renewing the structure beneath it. That research became a complete history of the Charles Barker Residence and a custom hardcover book created specifically for the sale.

SOLD FOR 100% OF LIST PRICE

Selling a long-held family home is rarely just a financial transaction. There are memories attached to rooms, gardens, renovations, holidays and ordinary days nobody else will ever know happened there.

My responsibility was to understand what made this property valuable, communicate it properly to the market and get my seller the result the home deserved.

SELLING A CHARACTER HOME

A renovated 1912 home is not interchangeable with another 1912 home.

Neither is a historic Westmount property, an architecturally significant residence, a major restoration, an unusual infill or a home with decades of thoughtful investment behind it. My job is to find the value that gets flattened inside an MLS data sheet and build the marketing around it.

Property Details

The character dates to 1912. The foundation dates to 2003. The care spans generations.

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114 YEARS. MANY LIVES. ONE ADDRESS.

Explore the complete history of the Charles Barker Residence, from the first building permit to the home that stands today.

A neighbourhood that had the time to become one.

Westmount

Westmount’s appeal is difficult to manufacture because so much of it comes from age. Towering elms arch over residential streets. Gardens have matured alongside the houses. Architecture changes from one property to the next, reflecting more than a century of Edmonton’s growth rather than a single moment of development.

That history is particularly visible here. Westmount contains Edmonton’s greatest concentration of pre-war single-family homes, giving its streets a richness and architectural variety found in few other parts of the city.

Then there is 124 Street. Restaurants, independent shops, cafés, galleries, markets and neighbourhood businesses have made it one of Edmonton’s most established central districts, close enough to become part of everyday life. Downtown, the Brewery District, river valley and major routes are all minutes away.

There is an ease to living here: walk for coffee, dinner or groceries; spend an afternoon along 124 Street; come home beneath the canopy to a quiet residential street and a house surrounded by gardens.

Westmount has spent more than a century developing its character. 10834 125 Street has been part of it since 1912.

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