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I Love This Virtual Tour Part 3 I started writing Part 3 about a different great feature of the Obeo virtual tours I use on all my Vancouver listings back a while ago, but it got lost in the shuffle of draft posts. This week Obeo announced an even better
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In this video I discuss how the quality of everything associated with the sale of your home will effect it's value. Lousy pictures equal less money, good pictures equal more money; crummy looking sign equals less money, good looking sign equals more
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Vancouver real esate is a favourite topic for the local papers and today was not different, but remember their primary goal is selling newspapers.
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Selling you home at this time of year can have it's challenges. Buyers like to see their future home in the daylight, but it is always dark after work, so that only leaves the weekends. If we get a prolonged period of bad weather it can actaully have
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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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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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Selling a home on one of Vancouver's busy streets can be a challenge. Yesterday I was walking along West 6th Ave. on my way to lunch and I noticed that I had walked past 4 For Sale signs in about a block. I happened to have my Flip Camera with me
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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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I have added an "Audio Tour" or voice-over to one of my listings and I am interested to know what you you think about it. The way the website is set up it will only play automatically the first time you view the listing (on a given computer).
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The Greater Vancouver real estate market saw increases listings and decreased sales last month, yet prices continued to climb. That is not how it is supposed to work, but lets reserve opinion for a month or two and see what happens. Sellers always suffer
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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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Spring Break starts on Saturday and if you are thinking of listing your Vancouver home it could pay to wait till the "break" is over (after Easter). During Spring Break, long weekends, and major holidays a large numbers of REALTORs® and their clients will be heading out of town (although probably not together).
That means that you are selling your home to a smaller market and when you are selling to a
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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) released their February 2008 statistics yesterday with the headline "Housing options broaden for buyers in February". Sales across all categories (detached, attached and condominiums) were down
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What is this? This is the main MLS® photo for this listing! Pictures sell homes. More pictures sell homes for MORE money . Take a look at this study done my a REALTOR® in Virginia . It compares sale prices based on the number of photos attached
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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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