February 2008 - Posts
Happy leap year Vancouver. With all the Vancouver developers into receivership hell we've been going trhoght his week I thought I would celebrate the leap year with some beautiful "leap"ing pictures from flickr . by amf on flickr. by Lili
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Not Chandler again! Didn't we have enough about him last year. He too has run out of money and his H & H and Garden City projects are too be completed by someone else. CBC broke the news just after midnight last night on their website. Take a
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What is this? This is the main MLS® photo for this listing! Pictures sell homes. More pictures sell homes for MORE money . Take a look at this study done my a REALTOR® in Virginia . It compares sale prices based on the number of photos attached
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I will be down at the BC Real Estate Convention (in Ballroom A, B & C at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre at Canada Place) today from 4 till 6pm which is when it ends. This is the last day of this free convention/ trade show covering
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Or rather, it stops hitting walls. CBC reported the other day that Bill Eden's Eden Developments had stopped construction of its only active development, the Sophia. In a situation eerily similar to the Riverbend development that cancelled the contracts
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So there was a lunar eclipse the other day. I missed it, but my blog buddy and great Saskatoon REALTOR® Norm Fisher took some great pics of the eclipse there in Saskatoon . Tonight is the Vancouver Blogger Meetup . It is being held right after the
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This is the 4th year for the BC Real Estate Convention and it has gotten bigger every year. It must be the cost of admission. It is free! There will be exhibitors from many different real estate related fields, including developers both local and international),
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Looking for something to do in Vancouver this weeekend? Then head inside to the BC Home + Garden Show which is on from today through Sunday at BC Place stadium in downtown Vancovuer. I am try to get some information from the show's website but the
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This one is straight from the daily RBC Economic Update by RBC Economist Rishi Sondhi that is subscribe too. You too can subscribe to these as well as many other reports from the RBC Ecomonics team . They are useful for keeping an eye on the Canadian
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Carole Taylor, wearing her new, greener shoes, released the budget yesterday in Victoria. The big news has been about the carbon tax that was introduced , but for first time homebuyers driving around in their cars looking for their first home the big
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Okay so Flag Day was on Friday and completly forgot. I even had this great picture to put in my flag day post to I am going to put it up today anyway. I took this one down at Granville Island on the deck outside the Public Market. Flag day is, according
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The British Columbia Real Estate Association released the following report today on the B.C. real estate market. Always remember that real estate is very, very local and what is happening across the province, or even across town may have not effect on
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The British Columbia Real Estate Association sent B.C. REALTORs the latest edition of their Legally Speaking newsletter today and the story was all about the Property Disclosure Statement, or PDS for short, or PCDC for Property Condition Disclosure Statement
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Walking along today I noticed these crocuses that have bloomed already. This is just the second week of February! This is Febraury in Winnipeg, Manitoba: Minus 47 with the wind chill! Forty-seven below zero! This is February in Phoenix, Arizona: Not much
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A house in Encino, California split in half yesterday. The cause is believed to me a broken water main under the house that caused the soil to become supersaturated. The pics and video are pretty amazing. I got this screen shot from ABC 7 in Encino .
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The article below first appeared in the REALTORlink newsletter for REALTORs on Febreuart 8, 2008. Trouble ahead? Will the US economy impact our real estate market? The downturn in the US economy has some Metro Vancouver home owners and home buyers worried
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Have you heard? Vancouver is in the running to be included in the latest Monopoly Here & Now: World Edition. Matel will choose the cities that will make the board based on voting on their website . Twenty cites will be nominated and then you will
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As you may very well be aware tornadoes touched down in 5 states in the US this week killing at least 54 people and leaving thousands homeless. Their homes just blew away! We are so lucky in Canada, and especially Vancouver, that we live virtually without
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I am running out of time to get this out on Friday so I will keep it short. Grouse Mountain will be open for 24 hours straight this weekend to celebrate just two years until the start of the Olympics. Here is what you can expect in the middle of the night
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Well its Friday and Fridays are for fun and Vancouver housing starts aren't very fun, but CMHC just released the January housing starts numbers so here we are. Housing starts must for fun for someone. The numbers are good with housing starts for last
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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) has released their January 2008 statistics release. The headline is "New listings rise to start the New Year" as there were 14.9% more new listings this January in Greater Vancouver than in
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Today is the start of Chinese New Year and Vancouver is one of the hot spots in North America for this event. The main event is the big parade in Vancouver's Chinatown on Sunday at noon. There are also events on Sunday at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese
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Now I am not saying there will be one every day, but this is the bad MLS picture for today.. Offered for sale here for over $600,000 we have this lovely ..... garage!!!! Sleeps 2 cars and there is even room for bikes and the deep freeze. Call today!!!
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Yes it is Toque Tuesday in Metro Vancouver and volunteers are out around Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminster selling toques and baseball hats to raise money to support Raise the Roof and their efforts to eliminate youth homelessness. You can
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I am trying to get back on the bad MLS photo thing so today I bring you a selection of bad photos from the Vancouver MLS ® to feast your eyes upon. Please force you flash to go on when shooting towards the window! Please take your car out of the drive
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