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Canada

Derived only from currently loaded listing rows. Includes 11 sourced manual research rows, 0 synthetic rows, and 5 certified comparable priced real-estate rows.

Market read

How to read Canada

Lifestyle underground

Canadian public evidence skews toward earth-sheltered or underground homes rather than separable hardened bunker assets.

Reading notes

  • Prices often reflect rural residential utility, land, and energy-efficiency or lifestyle value.
  • Dedicated bunker-only comps should be separated from bermed or earth-sheltered houses when they appear.
Listings11
Active7
Archived evidence4
Median underground USD/m²Transferable RE: $2,727Country median (mixed lanes) $2,727*
Comparable rows5
Excluded priced2
Research excluded45
Research pending6
Market valuelow relative value
Completeness86%
Buyer accessHigh
Certified rows only

Asset-type evidence

One documented asset type in the certified cohort
RowsAsset typeMedian USD/m²Depth
5underground home$2,727priced cohort
Diligence cues

Transfer / Legal Friction

Blockers, row notes, and dataset-scope cautions from the loaded evidence only.

Source blockers

  • Source blockerwhole-home price
  • Source blockermissing underground-only area
  • Source blockerno hardening standard
  • Source blockerprice on request

Row-level jurisdiction notes

  • Debert Diefenbaker luxury fallout-shelter condo projectCondo prices secret and buyer vetting required
  • Metchosin Spellman Place all concrete earth sheltered homeEarth-sheltered residential home rather than civil-defense bunker; buyer should verify concrete envelope condition living-roof drainage and residential permits
  • Princeton Ontario earth sheltered LEED homeArchived sale article and GreenHomes listing evidence; buyer should verify final sale terms and residential permits
  • Aurora century home with 1000 sqft historic bunkerBunker reuse and heritage constraints require local diligence
  • Chilliwack home with bunker and cold storage spaceListing language pairs bunker and cold storage so hardening should be confirmed before use
  • Rossendale Manitoba earth-sheltered riverfront homeWhole earth-sheltered residential acreage rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify Canadian foreign-buyer exemption title and envelope condition
  • Lumby Balsam Lane partially underground earth homeWhole earth-home residential sale rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify Canadian title financing and roof-earth envelope condition
  • Barry's Bay Paugh Lake earth-sheltered homeSold whole residential earth-sheltered home rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify historic sale terms Canadian title and envelope condition

Dataset scope flags

  • Broader-property contamination5 loaded rows price the broader property rather than a separated shelter value.
  • Transfer scope ambiguity6 loaded rows carry lease, usage-right, broader-property, non-transferable, or unknown transferability classes.
  • Public-use or readiness context2 loaded rows sit in civil-defense, public-disposal, or liability-transfer lanes.
  • Planning or condition diligence1 row-level jurisdiction note mention planning, protected status, obligations, contamination, or similar reuse friction.

Listing distribution

11 sourced rows, 0 synthetic rows. Median values use only certified comparable source-backed real-estate rows with direct or converted underground area, defensible asking, sale, or auction prices, and acceptable current source health.

7 active sourced rows, 7 priced sourced USD/m² rows,5 comparable priced real-estate rows, and 2 priced rows excluded from the comparable cohort.

  • Underground Home
  • Mixed Underground Asset
  • Civil Defense Shelter

Source coverage

  • Canada manual research queue manual only
  • Canada property portal manual review manual only
  • Canada luxury broker bunker manual review manual only
  • Canada comparable real-estate blocker review manual only
  • Canada Zillow manual listing review manual only
  • Canada One Percent Realty earth-sheltered home review manual only
  • Canada AuroraToday Diefenbunker estate review manual only
  • Canada Daily Hive bunker estate review manual only
  • Canada GreenHomesForSale earth-sheltered review manual only
  • Canada Real Estate Magazine earth-sheltered review manual only

Market value signal

low relative value, score 0. Transferable RE median is $2,727 across 5 priced rows; the country median across mixed lanes is $2,727* against a global comparable median of $1,382.

  • 5 Transferable RE rows.
  • Country Transferable RE median is 234% of the global Transferable RE median.

Data gaps

10 rows with price, 1 without price. 8 rows with underground area, 3 without underground area.

Research log: 12 included, 45 excluded, and 6 pending decisions for this country.

  • 1 evidence rows are missing a stated price.
  • 3 evidence rows are missing stated underground area.
  • 2 priced sourced rows are excluded from real-estate value cohorts by certification status, source health, scope, area basis, or price basis.
  • 2 evidence rows have blocked, paywalled, unreachable, or unknown source health.

Evidence mix

Coverage
Active Listing 7 / Archived Listing 3 / News Evidence 1
Sources
Broker 5 / Marketplace 4 / News Article 2
Health
Live 9 / Blocked 1 / Unreachable 1
What do these lane labels mean?

The lane is the kind of buying, not whether you can buy. Most rows below are real listings or evidence; the badge tells you what type of transaction the row represents.

  • Transferable REStandard real estate. Clean title, transferable like any house.
  • Embedded shelterShelter built into a broader property. You buy the property, the shelter comes with it.
  • Lifestyle undergroundUnderground or earth-sheltered home. Buyable like any house; hardening is usually below bunker grade.

Canada listings

Synthetic rows are for product development only
AssetRegionMarket TypeUSD/m²QualityValueStatusEvidence
Sturgeon County ranch with basement bunkerAlbertaLifestyle undergroundPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfern/a33insufficient data
manual researchactiveactive listingblockedrejectedhighinsufficient datamissing underground area

Listing summary states CAD 5.97m 77.5 acre Sturgeon County property with indoor saltwater pool and unique bunker below the main house

Blocked source / Weak evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support. Missing required evidence fields: area_underground_m2.

RE/MAX Canada
Ladysmith modern rancher with secure concrete bunkerBritish ColumbiaLifestyle undergroundPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfer$4,36144not comparable
manual researchactiveactive listingliverejectedhighnot comparable

Zillow listing states CAD 2099000 for 4811 Henry Roethel Road and describes a 3500 sqft built in super secure bunker plus 4675 sqft modern rancher on 10.25 acres

Live source / Weak evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support.

Zillow
Langley estate with underground tunnel to bunker-style garageBritish ColumbiaEmbedded shelterPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfer33insufficient data
manual researchactiveactive listingliverejectedhighinsufficient datamissing underground area

Listing page states secret underground tunnel leading to a one-of-a-kind bunker-style garage and search summary states active CAD 5.85m estate with 9015 sqft living area

Live source / Supported evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support. Missing required evidence fields: area_underground_m2.

Rela
Debert Diefenbaker luxury fallout-shelter condo projectNova ScotiaTransferable REn/a80insufficient data
manual researchunverifiednews evidenceliverejectedhighinsufficient datamissing price

Article states former 64000 sqft Cold War fallout shelter in rural Nova Scotia is being converted into luxury doomsday condos with 50 condos and 15 suites due next year

Live source / Supported evidence / Underground Component / Price On Request

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support. Missing required evidence fields: listed_price.

Condo prices secret and buyer vetting required

Global News
Metchosin Spellman Place all concrete earth sheltered homeBritish ColumbiaLifestyle underground$6,678415 (recalibrating)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

One Percent Realty listing states CAD 1690000 for 4440 Spellman Place in Metchosin with 1840 sqft all concrete earth sheltered living-roof home on 10 acres

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Earth-sheltered residential home rather than civil-defense bunker; buyer should verify concrete envelope condition living-roof drainage and residential permits

One Percent Realty
Princeton Ontario earth sheltered LEED homeOntarioLifestyle underground$2,6905154 (medium listing value)
manual researcharchivedarchived listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Real Estate Magazine states the Princeton Ontario earth-sheltered home was listed for CAD 999000 with 2700 square feet and the GreenHomes listing preserves sold status 2700 sqft earth sheltered wording buried north side green roof off-grid systems well and solar power

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Archived sale article and GreenHomes listing evidence; buyer should verify final sale terms and residential permits

Real Estate Magazine
Aurora century home with 1000 sqft historic bunkerOntarioLifestyle undergroundPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfer$21,70333not comparable
manual researchactiveactive listingliverejectedhighnot comparable

Listing states CAD 2.989m Aurora century home with 4460 sqft living area and adjacent historic bunker of 1000 sqft plus for wine cellar studio secure storage or entertainment use

Live source / Supported evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support.

Bunker reuse and heritage constraints require local diligence

Sotheby's International Realty Canada
Chilliwack home with bunker and cold storage spaceBritish ColumbiaEmbedded shelterPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfer36insufficient data
manual researcharchivedarchived listingunreachablerejectedmediuminsufficient datamissing underground area

Broker listing states a Chilliwack 2572 sqft home was for sale for CAD 824900 with basement bedrooms recreation room and a bunker or cold-storage space

Unreachable source / Weak evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support. Missing required evidence fields: area_underground_m2.

Listing language pairs bunker and cold storage so hardening should be confirmed before use

Lois Marie Sullivan
Rossendale Manitoba earth-sheltered riverfront homeManitobaLifestyle underground$2,8095862 (medium listing value)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Green Homes For Sale listing states USD 511000 asking price and 1958 square feet for a Rossendale Manitoba home with engineered concrete walls earth sheltered on the west and north sides plus a 54 square foot concrete root cellar refuge

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Whole earth-sheltered residential acreage rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify Canadian foreign-buyer exemption title and envelope condition

Green Homes For Sale
Lumby Balsam Lane partially underground earth homeBritish ColumbiaLifestyle underground$1,8043757 (medium listing value)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Green Homes For Sale listing states USD 294800 asking price and 1759 square feet for a Lumby British Columbia earth home set partially into the ground with precast concrete sawdust blocks and 22 to 24 inches of earth over the roof

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Whole earth-home residential sale rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify Canadian title financing and roof-earth envelope condition

Green Homes For Sale
Barry's Bay Paugh Lake earth-sheltered homeOntarioLifestyle underground$2,7275261 (medium listing value)
manual researcharchivedarchived listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Green Homes For Sale page marks the Barry's Bay property sold and exposes sale_price 405265 with 1600 square feet for a passive and active solar home with earth-sheltering on three sides built into the side of a hill

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Sale Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Sold whole residential earth-sheltered home rather than civil-defense bunker so buyer should verify historic sale terms Canadian title and envelope condition

Green Homes For Sale