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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
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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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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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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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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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I happened upon a copy of 24 Hours this morning and their provacative deadline "Boom or Bust: 24 Hours and CTV look at the Lower Mainland real estate market". Okay well the "Boom or Bust" part was dramatic but the rest was more than
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Well suprise suprise!! In a housing affordability report released and titled "Housing affordability is forecast to improve in 2008" RBC has very little good news for us. The first words on the report state "Although the result is heavily
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I heard some talk of this yesterday, but no specific project mentioned. Well low and behold my morning Vancouver Sun had it right there in the business section (apparently this is not front page news anymore) and also on cbc.ca . It seems that the Eden
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There are two real estate articles in todays Vancouver Sun. Take a look: Buyers are have been ling up for days already for sales to start tomorrow at the Millenium Water Sales center in South East False Creek. And apparently our tax dollars have been
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Last Friday (April 20, 2007) Bill-37 was passed into law by those geniuses in Ottawa. The effect being that homebuyers will no longer need mortgage insurance as long as they have at least 20% down. Homebuyers with a mortgage as small as $200,000 could
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Yesterday Royal LePage released its The 2007 Royal LePage Female Homebuyers Report . Again this year the number of women who own a home has increased and of those that don't 31% plan to purchase a home in the next three years. Most women do not find
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