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Onni Group is set to start pre-sales on one of their riskier developments to-date with the Chinatown location of their V6A development. Not too much info. available on it yet. It will be located on Union Street between Main and Gore, on the section of
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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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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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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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Cressey Development's Mantra on W. 4th Ave and Bucci Developments Lumen at Granville Island both open for previews or sales this weekend. Buying a new development pre-sale in Vancouver? Get represtentation from a REALTOR know your rights. I wrote
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Last night CBC TV's Wendy Mesley had a great story on Marketplace all about the risks inherent in buying a condominium at pre-sale from the developer (or the the marketing company they've hired). You can watch the video on CBC's website (which
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More good news for the Vancouver and Canadian real estate markets came today as Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released their reports on housing starts across Canada and from larger centres across the country. Across Canada housing starts
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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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Earlier this week in the Raincity Guide out of Seattle I read a story about exploding hot water tanks . Actually they seem to call them "water heaters" in the U.S. I had never heard this before. I had also never heard that there is an urban
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