April 2008 - Posts
Well, that's nothing new. Vancouver real estate is in the news almost everyday. The Vancouver Sun online has a story today titled 15 Real Estate Myths & Realities: The List. The article also includes the transcript of an interview by Christy Clark
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So I had to get a new camera and I've been inspired to take from flower shots over the past week or two. So I hope you enjoy some of the loeverly flowers that are in bloom around Vancouver these days. Tulip Patch of white flowers And finally the blossoms
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The Bank of Canada cut it's overnight rate by 50 basis points,or 1/2 a percent, to 3% this morning. The major bank will most likey respond with a cut in their mortgage rates. The rationale for the cut was that: Growth in the global economy has weakened,
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RBC reported today that they: We look for the Bank of Canada to slash the overnight rate by 50 bps to 3% and expect the statement will reinforce policymakers’ concerns about Canada’s economic prospects given the sustained volatility in financial
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Vancouver Sun writer Frances Bula has a blog called City States and on Tuesday she posted a post regarding the City's Ecodensity program and it's effect on Vancouver real estate prices . Most of the post is actually the transcript of a speech
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Yet another new development in South East False Creek here. Mr Wall's Wall Financial Group will be building four condo towers and a theatre on the site of the old Vancouver Playhouse workshops on West 1st Ave, immediately adjacent to the Millenium
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I came across an interesting and seemingly well thought out article in Canadian Business Magazine this morning. The title: Real estate: Nasty neighbours, by David Wolf. The subject of course is not so much will the US real estate meltdown effect the Canadian
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I have added an "Audio Tour" or voice-over to one of my listings and I am interested to know what you you think about it. The way the website is set up it will only play automatically the first time you view the listing (on a given computer).
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I've been a lazy blogger this week. Not much in the way of big Vancouver real estate news, but I've been meaning to get out this post. On Monday this week Canadian building permit numbers for February were released and on Tuesday the Canadian
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The Greater Vancouver real estate market saw increases listings and decreased sales last month, yet prices continued to climb. That is not how it is supposed to work, but lets reserve opinion for a month or two and see what happens. Sellers always suffer
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Best Health magazine (from the people at Reader's Digest) has ranked Vancouver as the healthiest city in Canada. Vancouver ranked at the top of 5 of five of their 16 categories and was in the top 5 in 5 others. Here is what they said: Nestled between
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The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) has launched a new website for REALTORS® and consumers all about "green" real estate called the Green Toolkit (for REALTORS®). I don't know why they had to include the "for
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