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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 in reaction to 9-11. It sure asks for some detailed information. We will be asking for your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of pre-sale buyers earlier this year The Sophia, located in Mount Pleasant, was ...

Carole Taylor, wearing her new, greener shoes, released the budget yesterday in Victoria. The big news has been about the carbon tax that was introduced, but for first time homebuyers driving around in their cars looking for their first home the big news was that the budget also increased the threshold for the the First Time Homebuyers Program ...

RBC's 14th Annual Homeownership Survey has found that Canadian Baby Boomers are not in the hurry to pay off their mortgages before they retire that we may have thought. In fact among those 55 plus only 59 percent of homeowners felt it was very important to pay off their mortgage before they retire. This was the lowest percentage among all age ...

Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan, on behalf of the Vancouver Board of Trade (VBT), recently recognized BCREA (the British Columbia Real Estate Association) as a Quality of Life Champion. According to the certificate:Quality of Life Champions have demonstrated an enduring commitment to improving our Quality of Life, through sustainable economic growth ...