March 2008 - Posts
This Earth Hour thing, in just it's 2nd year, seems to getting a lot of press this year. Not too suprising I guess given the media and public infatuationwith all things green these days. The hour is set for 8pm local time tomorrow, Saturday March
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I was away for Spring Break last week. Got back on Tuesday but have been busy catching up the last couple of days. Now its time to get you, and me , up to speed on the latest real estate news. The trend seems to be towards analysis of the future of the
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Happy Easter Vancouver!
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The cancelled Eden Group townhouse project Montgomery Estates on Oak Street, has re-launched as The Grand by Concord Pacific. Not too mcuh info available just yet. They are 2 & 3 bedroom townhouses and prices are to range from
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Happy St. Patrick's Day Vancouver! Be sure to get your green on today!
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RBC Royal Bank released their quarterly (is it really the 2nd quarter already?) housing affordability report today and the news is not good on the affordability front. The report starts out by saying: Nationwide housing affordability deteriorated in every
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St. Patricks Day is Monday and the Edgewater Casino CeltiFest Vancouver started yesterday so this Friday is all green. There are some great events at the CelticFest which is centred at the Edgewater Casino this year. I drove by there the other day and
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Royal LePage has launched a great new contest called "Great Moments at Home". The winner will receive
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Spring Break starts on Saturday and if you are thinking of listing your Vancouver home it could pay to wait till the "break" is over (after Easter). During Spring Break, long weekends, and major holidays a large numbers of REALTORs® and their clients will be heading out of town (although probably not together).
That means that you are selling your home to a smaller market and when you are selling to a
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According to CMHC Vancouver housing starts were up over 100% last month compared to February 2007. This is good news for the newspapers, but what does this tell us that we didn't already know? Not much. The Vancouver market is healthy? Inventory is
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I have joined the Royal LePage Westside team for the 2008 Bowl for Big Brothers Classic. On March 28th the Royal LePage Westside team will wearing their best Hawaiian attire and be bowling for Big Brothers. If you would like to donate to this great cause
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I heard of this first yesterday on CBC radio and now it is out on their website. The Brio condominium project in Abbotsford has stopped construction . They had only sold 20 of the proposed 174 units. The CBC story says: Brio buyers appear to have emerged
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RBC Royal Bank released their 15th Annual Homeownership Survey yesterday and according to the survey less British Columbians are planning to buy a home in the next two years. A quote from the news release: “In 2008, we may see a shift in homebuying
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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) released their February 2008 statistics yesterday with the headline "Housing options broaden for buyers in February". Sales across all categories (detached, attached and condominiums) were down
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The Bank of Canada has cut the target for it's overnight lending rate by half a percentage point today and the major banks have already started to respond by lowing their prime lending rate by an equal amount. This will help to spurr on the Spring
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Almost a million dollars for this? Once again this IS the main MLS® pic for this listing! I may take up AgentWill 's idea for gread MLS® pics as well, but that is for another day. Matthew Collinge: REALTOR ® with Royal LePage Westside
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Remax Canada released their Decade in Review report late last week and it revealed some interesting facts about the Vancouver real estate market . From 1997 - 2007 Vancouver did NOT have the highest residential MLS® average price appreciation in Canada.
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I have been working on this blog of about a year now and pretty early on Google graced me with a PageRank (or "PR" for short) of 1!!! It is not much obviously, but at least they noticed I was out there. Then 6 months ago, or so, my handy Google
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CMHC released two big reports full of real estate news and statistics this week and I haven't had a chance to look at either of them yet, but I wanted to get them out to you loyal stat loving readers so here you go: Housing Now: Canada Housing Information
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