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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 week, BCREA and several other provincial organizations successfully lobbied the ...

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 REALTORS®" part because it looks like the site is full on good info for anyone ...

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 look. I have to run right now, but I wanted to get the news out there. Hat tip to Victoria ...

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 skewed by western Canada’s housing costs, typical Canadians, on average, now have to give ...

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 the highest in 30 years.  “Housing starts remained strong in November and are ...

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 Real Estate Association sent out the following memo in regards to the reduction in the GST as ...

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 is the most affordable rental market, affordability is improving in Toronto, but decreasing in ...