A conversation first
We meet at the home, or at our rooms on Homer Street, and talk about what the property needs. No listing agreement changes hands at this stage, and sometimes our advice is simply to wait a season.
West VancouverPoint GreyShaughnessyWhistlerDeep CoveYaletownSalt Spring IslandCaulfeild
The practice
We sell eight to ten homes a year. On purpose.
Most brokerages measure themselves in volume. We measure ours in fit. Every home we take on was drawn by an architect whose name matters, and every buyer we introduce has been vetted long before they cross the threshold.
Mara Ellingsen opened Halcyon in 2016 after nine years inside a national firm, convinced that a significant house deserves the same discretion as a significant painting. Since then the practice has closed 61 architect designed homes across West Vancouver, Point Grey, and Whistler. Most were never publicly listed.
Featured residences
Four homes, currently in our care
Photography is withheld until a showing is confirmed. What follows is a glimpse.
For sale
4188 Rockridge Road, West Vancouver
Erickson era post and beam, rebuilt to the original drawings in 2021.
New listing
2799 Point Grey Road, Vancouver
Board formed concrete on the water, completed 2019. Never offered before.
By appointment
38 Sunridge Plateau Lane, Whistler
Cedar and steel above the valley, ski room for twelve, a fireplace you can stand in.
Under contract
PH2, 1560 Homer Mews, Yaletown
Full floor penthouse over False Creek with a 1,900 sq ft wraparound terrace.
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Sold since 2016
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Average days to accepted offer
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Private showings arranged last year
The private process
Three steps, none of them rushed
The quiet market
Before anything goes public, the home is shown to our private list of roughly 300 qualified buyers and their advisors. About half of our sales conclude here, without a single photograph leaving the room.
A considered close
Offers are presented in person, on paper. We keep negotiations short, terms clean, and the moving date on your calendar rather than ours. Keys change hands over a glass of something good.
Principal broker
Mara Ellingsen
Licensed in British Columbia since 2007
Mara holds a graduate degree in architectural history, sits on the West Vancouver heritage advisory committee, and can tell an original Binning mural from a restoration at ten paces. She has represented three homes featured in Canadian Architect and one that appeared, briefly and anonymously, in a film you have seen.
She answers her own phone. If she is in a showing, her associate Tomas will take a message and she will call you back the same day.
Begin
A conversation costs nothing and obliges you to nothing
Showings are by appointment, Tuesday through Saturday, ten until six. Write to us and expect a reply within one business day.