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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
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Well, starting June 23rd, this form and ALL the info it asks for will be required by law in Canada for all real estate transactions. This is part of the Proceeds of Crime Money (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act which I am guessing was passed
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Straight from my Daily Economic Update from RBC (I wish they would quote the source of the stats. Maybe it is RBC itself.): The new housing price index was flat in April with the annual pace of increase slowing to 5.2% down from 6.1% in March. The house-only
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Quite the splashy title for the old RBC. As has been widely reported the Canadian market generally has cooled although it is cooler in some parts of the country (Calgary and Edmonton) than in others. The reports starts out talking about how the slow down
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In the "this is just a giant real estate ad" House Hunting section of the Vancovuer Sun today was an article (Title: Camp Report Released: Canadians have a balanced view of the real estate market) about a report that has been released by CAAMP
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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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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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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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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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I will be down at the BC Real Estate Convention (in Ballroom A, B & C at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre at Canada Place) today from 4 till 6pm which is when it ends. This is the last day of this free convention/ trade show covering
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Or rather, it stops hitting walls. CBC reported the other day that Bill Eden's Eden Developments had stopped construction of its only active development, the Sophia. In a situation eerily similar to the Riverbend development that cancelled the contracts
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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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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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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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The British Columbia Real Estate Association sent B.C. REALTORs the latest edition of their Legally Speaking newsletter today and the story was all about the Property Disclosure Statement, or PDS for short, or PCDC for Property Condition Disclosure Statement
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