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Have your avocado toast, and a condo, too.
A new luxury condo development in metro Vancouver, Canada, is offering more than on-site meditation rooms and grassy rooftop courtyards for its new residents — it is also including one free year of avocado toast for each sale of its 116 condos, which range from $297,225 for a one-bedroom to $483,023 for a three-bedroom place.
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The Kira, part of Woodbridge Homes, in British Columbia’s West Coquitlam, bills itself as being “close to daily conveniences like transit, shopping, parks and restaurants,” as well as boasting “spacious modern interiors… designed to maximize the natural sunlight flowing into each home.”
However, the millennial paradise, which opens this year, is adding another perk to set it over the edge with its peak demographic — free avocado toast, or any other comparable breakfast option, for a year from a local restaurant, Vice’s food site, Munchies reported.
“Saving for a down payment does require some saving and sacrificing,” Woodbridge Homes president Jamie Howard told The Star, Munchies reported. “At the Kira project, we say you can have your avocado toast and eat it too.”
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A new luxury condo development in metro Vancouver, Canada, is offering more than on-site meditation rooms and grassy rooftop courtyards. (iStock)
To add another icing on the avocado, prospective home-buyers are only required to pay 10 percent of the down payment, instead of the usual 20 percent.
The inclusion of the popular snack food item was likely in reference to Australian millionaire Tim Gurner, who said in a “60 Minutes” interview in 2017 that the reason millennials could not afford homes was their habit of buying avocado toast.
“When I was trying to buy my first home I wasn’t buying smashed avocados for 19 bucks and four coffees at $4 each,” he said.
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However, even at $19 a day, avoiding avocado toast for an entire year would only save you about $7,000 — much less than the down payment on most homes.