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Apartment For Sale in Kitsilano Vancouver West
North of 4th in Kitsilano • 846 sq. ft., 4 bath, 2 bdrm apartment - MLS® $473,000 CAD - Huge patio! Kitsilano Vancouver West, Vancouver Property information Read More...
Vancouver Neighbourhoods: Marche St. George Neighbourhood Grocery in Main St - Mountain View
Established in 2010 on the the NW corner of East 28th Ave and St. George St. Marche St. George is located in an old coner store within a small wood-frame apartment building (where the owners live). I came across this neat little shop while I had a condo Read More...
Lunch in Vancouver: Bier Craft (Commercial Drive)
Looking for a place to meet a visiting realtor from Calgary last week I put the question out to my twitter (follow me @604homesguy ) followers and received a number of great suggestions. I decided on Bier Craft Tap and Tapas on Commercial Dr. THe location Read More...
TD Canada Trust to offer more flexible mortgage payment options to Vancouver home owners
Beginning January 24, 2011, TD Canada Trust will offer more flexible payment options to eligible mortgage customers. These new features allow customers to take advantage of amounts they have paid ahead when the unexpected happens. For example, customers Read More...
What do you think about your B.C. Property Assessement? Two Important Misunderstandings
The first week on January, or there abouts, always brings about lots of call for Vancouver real estate agents, and those across the province I assume. This is when B.C. Assessment mails about the property assessments of your property's value (as of August last of the previous year) upon which your property taxes for the present year will be based. Read More...
British Columbia Home Inspectors to be Licenced
The provincial government has announced that starting March 31, 2009 all home inspectors in the province of British Columbia will have to be licensed. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released the following statement in support of Read More...
Horrible Terrble MLS® Photos are Back
A collage? Really?! A collage! It is blurry, the photos have dates on them and it looks like it was glued together. Horrible! Terrible! Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR® Read More...
Onni Group and MAC Marketing Solutions Partner to Blow Out Metro Vancouver Condo Inventory
This has already been in the news and all, but I thought I'd mention it here. I broke this on Twitter 2 days ago actually, so if you are not following me there please do. Basically Onni Group, who usually does their own condo marketing, have partnered 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...
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...
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...
Vancouver Real Estate in the Papers <VIDEO>
Vancouver real esate is a favourite topic for the local papers and today was not different, but remember their primary goal is selling newspapers. Read More...
Selling Your Vancouver Home in the Fall and Winter <VIDEO>
Selling you home at this time of year can have it's challenges. Buyers like to see their future home in the daylight, but it is always dark after work, so that only leaves the weekends. If we get a prolonged period of bad weather it can actaully have Read More...
Understanding the Differences Between The Canadian and U.S. Mortgage Markets
This morning my broker emailed me an article from a Scotia Bank newsletter. The title of the article is "Canada's Mortgage Market is NOT like the U.S." and I found it very interesting to see the fundamental differences in our Canadian mortgage Read More...
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