Cannot afford a residence? Buy this historic Halfway hotel


The Halfway Resort is found at 607 Fifth Avenue in Halfway, BC.
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This two-storey historic resort on the major drag of Halfway is for sale for $250,000, significantly a lot less than the charge of one-family members homes in other parts of the province. 

The Halfway Lodge was developed in 1900 and was final owned by Halfway resident Monica Philip Shalay who ordered it in 2010 and ran it as a bar and cafe until finally 2018.

“It was an crucial section of Halfway and treeplanters and tourists would remain there,” she mentioned. “We satisfied people from all around, tons of bikers and persons coming to take a look at their moms and dads. Neighborhood adult males who grew up jointly would shoot pool on Sunday evenings.”

She and her spouse redid the walls, place in new flooring and renovated the bathrooms and kitchen, while undertaking what they could to continue to keep its historic look.

She claimed way back in the working day, Freeway 3 went by the resort but bypasses went through someday in the 70s that took away a ton of traffic from the business enterprise. The building was challenging to preserve up owing to its age and the winters have been hard for absence of clients.

“The lodge received bought to a foreigner,” she stated. “It hardly ever went back to a resort just after we closed it and it is no longer operating as a cafe and bar.”


The assets capabilities 3,000 square ft of bar and restaurant space, 6 resort rooms and an owner’s suite, according to a listing by Colliers International. It’s found throughout from a most important riverfront park and municipal campground at 607 Fifth Avenue. 

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The lodge was the to start with resort built in Midway and these days is recognized by some locals as the Midway Sizzling-L due to the fact the “e” on its sign fell off.

Shalay said the making now appears to be additional run down than the photo demonstrated in the advert. 

Usual one-family residences in Kamloops offered for $635,400 in April whilst the regular sale value for solitary-spouse and children homes in the Central Okanagan ended up marked at $1,083,027. One-relatives properties in the South Okanagan expense $732,851 and all those in the North Okanagan charge $831,090.

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Halfway is found 51 kilometres east of Osoyoos on Freeway 3 in the West Kootenay area of south central BC, and has a prosperous historical past of forestry, railroads, mining and ranching. It is found on the Kettle River at mile zero of the popular Kettle Valley Rail Trail.


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