: Six bedroom, seven bathrooms in MacKenzie Heights
Damian Inwood
Province
Todd Bertuzzi’s gone to Florida and his Vancouver house is for sale. Photograph by : Wayne Leidenfrost, The Province
Canuck fans with deep pockets could get a chance to relax in the rec room where Bert and Nazzy used to play indoor hockey.
For just under $2 million, the Vancouver house that Todd Bertuzzi lived in during his last season can be yours.
“They had it set up with a couple of hockey nets and there were some Naslund-Bertuzzi games going on in here using those squishy balls,” realtor Elizabeth McQueen chuckled yesterday.
“They also had a foosball table and great big oversize furniture.”
The 4,500-square-foot MacKenzie Heights home boasts six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, radiant floor heating, inlaid marble foyer and basement sauna.
The four-car detached garage is “big enough for a couple of Hummers,” said McQueen.
When Bertuzzi was traded to the Florida Panthers, he left his furniture at the house until he moved into a new pad in an enclave with other hockey-star homes near West Palm Beach.
Now the house, on the market for two months, stands empty on a 60-by-132-foot lot at the corner of West 36th Avenue and MacKenzie.
The price has been reduced by $100,000 and McQueen expects it to sell in the next 30 days.
She’s carved out a niche market since 1998 as the realtor for many of the Canucks players.
“On average, I probably help 95 per cent of players on the team,” she said. “I just came back from training camp. When they’re not skating, there’s time to talk about their accommodation needs.”
McQueen said Bertuzzi’s den once housed a big-screen TV and a massage chair where the power forward would go for his pre-game nap.
She said that Bertuzzi and his wife Julie were sorry to leave the home with their daughter Jaden, and son Tag.
“It was a great family house,” she said. “One bedroom was set up like a little princess room and the young boy’s was set up with NHL and Canuck stuff all over the place.”
© The Vancouver Province 2006
