Neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood is mostly its buildings. Everything else — the trees, the shops, the feel of a street in October — follows from when it was built and by whom. So that is where each of these starts.
- Charleswood: deep lots, open ditches, and houses from every decade
What the lot, the drainage and the era of the house each tell you.
- Crescentwood: four houses in five built before 1960
Character houses, and the systems behind the plaster.
- Downtown: buying a home means buying into a building
Towers, reserve funds and the Manitoba condominium documents.
- Exchange District: homes in buildings that were built for business
Lofts in heritage buildings, and where the real costs sit.
- Fort Garry: river streets, Pembina towers, and the houses by the university
Three building eras under one name.
- Linden Woods: two houses in three built between 1981 and 2000
Original components reaching their replacement years together.
- North End: three houses in four built before 1960
Old, mostly owner-occupied houses, renewed in layers.
- Osborne Village: towers from the 1960s and 1970s, and the walk-ups around them
Two kinds of building, two lists of questions.
- Sage Creek: a neighbourhood still on its first set of roofs
Settling lots, first replacements and the warranty question.
- St. James: more than half its homes built before 1960
Mid-century houses, and how far their updates went.
- St. Norbert: houses from every decade, where the La Salle meets the Red
Two rivers, the city's edge, and no single era.
- St. Vital: one name, two different building eras
Why the half you buy in changes what you check.
- The Maples: seven houses in ten built between 1961 and 1980
A neighbourhood built on the years insurers ask about.
- Tuxedo: three building eras under one name
Large houses, where each system's age matters more.
- West Kildonan: four building eras, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
Reading a house by the decade it was built.
- Whyte Ridge: three houses in four built between 1981 and 2000
For buyers and sellers of a thirty-year-old house.
- Wolseley: almost nine houses in ten built before 1960
Old houses, suites, and several renovations at once.
- River Heights: nine houses in ten were built before 1960
What one census figure tells you to look at before you buy there.
How these are written
Every figure carries its source and the month it was published, so you can check it or watch it go out of date. Census figures come from the City of Winnipeg's neighbourhood profiles; Statistics Canada draws them from a 25% sample and rounds to the nearest five. Where the City has no profile under the name people use for a place, the article says which profiles it uses instead. Price figures come from the Winnipeg Regional Real Estate Board. Where I describe what I would look at in a house, that is observation and nothing more — an inspector assesses condition, and a licensed trade settles anything in their trade.
Where there are photographs, they are mine, taken in the neighbourhood being written about. No stock images of somewhere else's street.