December 2007 - Posts
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERBOBDY!
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What the ----- is Twitter you may be wondering? Good question? According to Twitter it is "... for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing." You can get updates by text mesage (SMS) on
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I am bit late reporting on this one. Just like I am kind of late getting some of my Christmas shopping done. As you may have seen in the paper Royal LePage released their predictions for the Canadian real estate market in 2008. They, or is that we, are
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Apparently this house was also for sale earlier this year, but no one told me. Anyway it been fixed up and is being flipped. You can view this 300 square foot house on mls.ca . It is quite the remarkable little house. It appears to be only about 6 feet
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There is so much to do at this time of year and that is not to mention all the tedious gift buying and working and .... blah blah blah. So what I've got today are a series of fun things to do around Vancouver this Christmas-time. Late last week the
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So I just sat down for lunch and I thought I'd read the paper while I was eating. So I pulled out the Sports and Business sections and after taking a look at the Sports what do I see on the front of the Business section " Real estate complaints
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The big real estate news in Vancouver yesterday was Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) release of the November housing starts numbers. Nationally housing starts were stable compared with October, but in Metro Vancouver housing starts were
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Cambie Street finally re-opened this week and they are celebrating on Sunday with Christmas on Cambie . Yes that is right, there is no big hole down one side of the street, no big fences, and street parking right on Cambie. And the best thing is that
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I will start this Fun Friday post off with some gratuitous efforts to win Miss604's bloggisversary contest . I only started reading Miss604's blog a couple of months ago, but its really a great one and she has been at it for four years now. To
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The Vancouver Sun shouted at me this morning "FRASER VALLEY HOUSE PRICES AT 8-MONTH LOW". Followed by a nice little graphic showing average prices dropping Surrey (-2.1%), White Rock(-16.3%!), Langley (-1.3%), Abbotsford (-0.1% ooooo!) and Mission
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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver has just released the statistics from November . November this year was significantly busier than last year with 2,883 units sold in 2007, an increase of 22.2 per cent compared to 2,358 sales in November 2006
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Maybe if you are here you know already, but maybe not. Take a look at this video from the good folks at Common Craft . You may have to hit the play arrow a few different times but the video Matthew Collinge: www.604homes.com - Royal LePage Westside Format:
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When I first set up this blog through my website provider, Point2Agent , the only way to subscibe was through the buttons that say RSS 2.0 and ATOM at the top there below the picture of English Bay. Well that was great if you know that the heck "RSS"
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It looks like the Bank of Canada is not as bullish on the economy as the Royal Bank and today they cut the target overnight lending rate from 4.5% to 4.25%. I would imagine that you can expect a similar drop in some of the mortgage rates. I will the leave
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On Tuesday the Bank of Canada (BoC) will release their latest interest rate announcement and in my " Daily Economic Update" from the Royal Back (or are they just RBC now?) they had this to say: "Recent indications of firm domestic demand,
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And maybe the only snow this year. Matthew Collinge: www.604homesblog ~ Royal LePage Westside
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