Condo district?

Friends of mine bought a house some 13 years ago, a walking distance from university in Vancouver, for 800,000 dollars. I was visiting last year and a house across the street from them, identical to theirs except yard had slightly different land scaping, that house sold for 3.5 million $s!. (Chinese buyers from China)

NOT was worth 7$ a share a long while back, a couple of years ago? same could be had for 16 cents (yes I bought some then). That is the world we live in. Cheers, Ed