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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 ...

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 given be Vancouver housing-centre director Cameron Gray. The transcript was unfortunately ...

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 ...

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 economy as well that of our American neighbours (or would that be ...

As you may very well be aware tornadoes touched down in 5 states in the US this week killing at least 54 people and leaving thousands homeless. Their homes just blew away! We are so lucky in Canada, and especially Vancouver, that we live virtually without the threat of such natural disasters. That is, other than that pesky earthquake they say will ...

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 month in Vancouver keeping pace with January last year. Detached (CMHC calls them "single ...

Yes it is Toque Tuesday in Metro Vancouver and volunteers are out around Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminster selling toques and baseball hats to raise money to support Raise the Roof and their efforts to eliminate youth homelessness. You can also buy your Raise the Roof toque online. Here are 10 facts about the hidden homeless straight ...

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 ...