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Are you looking for a new home for sale on the Westside of Vancouver . You have lots to choose from and wide range of prices and neighbourhoods as well. There are 98 active lisitngs at the moment that are advertised as a 1 year old or less. Of those a
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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
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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! ".
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The day started off with some pretty good new in my inbox with an email from RBC letting me know that housing starts were up in August. As I have mentioned before I don't think monthly housing starts are too useful anyways, but up is always better
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The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA), the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC (CHBA BC) and the Urban Development Institute (UDI) today announed the new "Presale Cross Reference List" to help consumers with understanding
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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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Amongst all the news off increased listings and (slightly) decreased sales came the news earlier this week that housing starts are up so far this year in Vancouver. On Monday the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) announced that "preliminary"
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Good old Gary Mason attended a lunch hosted by the Urban Development Institute where "Condo King" Bob Rennie spoke about who is buying Vancouver's super high priced condos these days. Apparently this was quite the hot ticket in Vancouver
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ATTENTION - I has come to my attention that due to wonders of Google you may have arrived here looking for info about the ONNI Liquidation Sale. This post is not about that, but this one is so I hope you will check it out . Onni Group is set to start
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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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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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Yet another new development in South East False Creek here. Mr Wall's Wall Financial Group will be building four condo towers and a theatre on the site of the old Vancouver Playhouse workshops on West 1st Ave, immediately adjacent to the Millenium
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The cancelled Eden Group townhouse project Montgomery Estates on Oak Street, has re-launched as The Grand by Concord Pacific. Not too mcuh info available just yet. They are 2 & 3 bedroom townhouses and prices are to range from
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According to CMHC Vancouver housing starts were up over 100% last month compared to February 2007. This is good news for the newspapers, but what does this tell us that we didn't already know? Not much. The Vancouver market is healthy? Inventory is
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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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