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  • Density and Affordabilty in Vancouver Real Estate

    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 ...
    Posted to 604homesblog (Weblog) by 26556 on April 16, 2008
  • Chandler Developments Sends Two Projects in Receivership: H & H and Garden City

    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 ...
    Posted to 604homesblog (Weblog) by 26556 on February 28, 2008
  • Vancouver BC Real Estate: Housing Starts Up In January

    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 ...
    Posted to 604homesblog (Weblog) by 26556 on February 8, 2008
  • GST: You May Have to Pay 6 or Even 7 Percent in 2008

    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 ...
    Posted to 604homesblog (Weblog) by 26556 on November 9, 2007
  • Affordable Housing Options Improve For Seniors

    Late last week a new affordable seniors housing complex officially opened in North Vancouver. Called Kiwanis Saint Andrews Place residents actually moved in in August. It is great to see increased options for our seniors to continue living in their communities. Read the CMHC press release on Saint Andrews Place.
    Posted to 604homesblog (Weblog) by 26556 on October 17, 2007