November 2007 - Posts
If you didn't know already, Vancouver is a great city for skiers. There are few other cities in the world where you can ski less than an hour after work. And I mean on the hill schusing down the slopes. Well this week Grouse Mountain was the first
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I heard some talk of this yesterday, but no specific project mentioned. Well low and behold my morning Vancouver Sun had it right there in the business section (apparently this is not front page news anymore) and also on cbc.ca . It seems that the Eden
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The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) unveiled not one, but three mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralymic Games today and already many are voicing their disapproval. These are adults complaining about cartoon characters. Please, do they
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Earlier this week in the Raincity Guide out of Seattle I read a story about exploding hot water tanks . Actually they seem to call them "water heaters" in the U.S. I had never heard this before. I had also never heard that there is an urban
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So what is happening I hear is that some Americans are selling (cashing in) their Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada, homes to buy into depressed US real estate markets with strong Canadian dollars and the profits of our strong real estate market. I had
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It seems that it was just a few years ago that you could hardly find a parade in Vancouver, other than the (Gay) Pride Parade . Now was have the St Patrick's Day Parade, the Parade of Lost Souls (okay its actually been around quite a while, but its
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The Scotia Bank has gotten into the Web 2.0 world with their "The Money Clip" series of podcasts . You can subscribe to these through RSS or in iTunes . The latest one to appear in my Google Reader is called "Home Ownership: Flipping 101:
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I mentioned "being charitable" in my Friday post title, but forgot to actually write about it. I am battling a bit of cold/flu and I think it is affecting my brain. Anyway the REALTOR's Care Blanket Drive (Warning: the website will immediately
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Its seems when the weather is truly atrocious I don't feel like writing Fun on Fridays. That seems to occurring about every other week this fall. But today is nice enough and I was down on the (Granville) Island with the baby and I came across few
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Royal LePage has released another one of their podcasts. In this one Linda Leatherdale, money editor of The Toronto Sun and host of MONEY LINE on Rogers Television, and Lisa DaRocha, vice president, Marketing and Communications, Royal LePage Real Estate
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I have been hearing the term "Metro Vancouver" in the media for several months now, but somehow I missed the big event when Greater Vancouver became Metro Vancouver. Apparently all you do to make this change is have a little meeting of the GVRD
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I just received a fan out text message from the Realty Watch program . A 14 year old boy, named Thor Dehr, was last seen Tuesday, November 13th at 12 noon in Kitsilano. He is known to frequent the Kits Beach area. He is Caucasian with blue eyes and brown
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If you purchased a pre-sale home, townhouse, or condominium in the past few years and it hasn't completed yet you might have been thinking you could save 1% if it completed after the new year. It looks like this is not the case. The British Columbia
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October was another strong month for the Metro Vancouver / Greater Vancouver real estate market. Sales were over 3000 units, which was 11.2% over last October and only 2.3% below the heady days of October 2005. “This is only the fourth time in 25
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The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released their 2008 BC and Vancouver Housing Outlook. They predict that Vancovuer housing starts and re-sales will continue at about above average (although not record levels) and that Vancouver housing
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Is Metro Vancouver as liveable as international reports say it is? The Vancouver Foundatio n answers this question in it s Metro Vancouver’s Vital Signs® 2007 report. The report tells what it’s like to live in the 21 municipalities that
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BRRRR! BT on CityTV just told me its only 3 c. out there this morning. It sure seemed cold when I helped the wife and kids out the door this morning. It is nice and sunny though. As it was yesterday when I took this pic of the Spruce Harbour Marina. I
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The Exchange (developped by PCI) in South-East False Creek is one of the many developments that got held up by the city strike. They are now gearing up and will be having a "private preview event" on Thursday, November 8, 2007 from 4 pm - 7
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