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This is straight from a British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) email I received today. I thought you'd be interested in some of the things the real estate industry does that don't make the news very often. Property rights protected This
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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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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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Not Chandler again! Didn't we have enough about him last year. He too has run out of money and his H & H and Garden City projects are too be completed by someone else. CBC broke the news just after midnight last night on their website. Take a
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This one is straight from the daily RBC Economic Update by RBC Economist Rishi Sondhi that is subscribe too. You too can subscribe to these as well as many other reports from the RBC Ecomonics team . They are useful for keeping an eye on the Canadian
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As you may very well be aware tornadoes touched down in 5 states in the US this week killing at least 54 people and leaving thousands homeless. Their homes just blew away! We are so lucky in Canada, and especially Vancouver, that we live virtually without
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Well its Friday and Fridays are for fun and Vancouver housing starts aren't very fun, but CMHC just released the January housing starts numbers so here we are. Housing starts must for fun for someone. The numbers are good with housing starts for last
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Yes it is Toque Tuesday in Metro Vancouver and volunteers are out around Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminster selling toques and baseball hats to raise money to support Raise the Roof and their efforts to eliminate youth homelessness. You can
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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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The big real estate news in Vancouver yesterday was Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) release of the November housing starts numbers. Nationally housing starts were stable compared with October, but in Metro Vancouver housing starts were
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If you purchased a pre-sale home, townhouse, or condominium in the past few years and it hasn't completed yet you might have been thinking you could save 1% if it completed after the new year. It looks like this is not the case. The British Columbia
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Is Metro Vancouver as liveable as international reports say it is? The Vancouver Foundatio n answers this question in it s Metro Vancouver’s Vital Signs® 2007 report. The report tells what it’s like to live in the 21 municipalities that
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Yesterday Royal LePage released its Eco Home Survey that found that 88% of Canadians want green features in their homes and many are willing to pay more for them. In fact 62 per cent are willing to pay between $5,000 and under $20,000, for green features,
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Today the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced the findings of their latest Rental Market Report - Major Centres. Although other major cities saw both increases and decreases in rental affordability, Vancouver remained stable. While Montreal
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corportation (CHMC) today released their annual report on the state of housing in Canada, the 2007 Canadian Housing Observer. The focus of the report is sustainable housing. Really isn't it the focus of everything these
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