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November 2008 - Posts

12 Seconds of Vancouver Real Estate <VIDEO>
I am a bit of a sucker for all the new social media websites out there. I will write another post soon about all the different places you can find me online. HINT: I am usually the 604homesguy if it is the kind of place where you have a username. I have Read More...
The 14th Annual REALTORS® Care Blanket Drive is upon us!
The 14th Annual REALTORS® Care Blanket Drive is upon us! The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver and it's members are asking you to make a donation - no matter how small - to the 2008 REALTORS® Care Blanket Drive. With winter just starting Read More...
Real Estate in Burnaby: Deer Lake Holiday Home Tour
Found this one in the paper this morning and it looks like there are some very cool houses around Deer Lake in Burnaby and the tour is supporting a really great cause. Through the Rotary Club Deer Lake resident Marguerite Kohnke has organized a tour of Read More...
Selling Vancouver Real Estate - I Love This Virtual Tour Part 3
I Love This Virtual Tour Part 3 I started writing Part 3 about a different great feature of the Obeo virtual tours I use on all my Vancouver listings back a while ago, but it got lost in the shuffle of draft posts. This week Obeo announced an even better Read More...
Vancouver! Go VOTE!
Right now! If you have not voted yet, stopreading this and go and vote. Thanks for reading, I have to go vote now. All the info about where to vote is here: http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election2008/info-voters.htm#where Read More...
BCREA news release: Financial/Equity Markets Impact October Home Sales
The British Columbia Real Estate Association released the following press release today: For immediate release Financial/Equity Markets Impact October Home Sales Vancouver, BC – November 14, 2008. British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) Read More...
Thanks for Watching and Reading the 604homesblog <VIDEO>
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you that take the time to read, and watch, the 604homesblog. The video is below and on 604homesTV . Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR® Format: ??? Duration: 1:14 Read More...
CMHC Offers Another Downpayment Option: Flex Down
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corportation, or CMHC, is now offering another down payment option to Canadian home buyers. This product, called Flex Down, offers buyers a "wider range of sources for their down payment such as borrowed funds and Read More...
Selling Your Vancouver Home? Quality Counts <VIDEO>
In this video I discuss how the quality of everything associated with the sale of your home will effect it's value. Lousy pictures equal less money, good pictures equal more money; crummy looking sign equals less money, good looking sign equals more Read More...
Why Get Pre-Approved for a Mortgage When Rates are Falling?
I received a mortgage update email from one of my trusty mortgage brokers, Ray Mayer , just now and I thought the advice he gave was quite good and might be of interest to you. So I asked Ray if I could share it with you here and he said " NO! ". Read More...
Creating Safer Homes For Women in Canada: The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation
Royal LePage's corporate charity is the Shelter Foundation which ... is the largest public foundation in Canada dedicated exclusively to ending violence against women and children. Royal LePage pays the costs of administration so that 100% of all Read More...