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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 feature so that other feature will have to wait for Part 4 of this series. Sharing ...

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 money; poor staging, clutter, messy and dirty home equals less money, clean, tidy and ...

Vancouver real esate is a favourite topic for the local papers and today was not different, but remember their primary goal is selling newspapers. Correction: The survey that was quoted as being by CMHC was actually by the Royal Bank, RBC.[Video]

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 a real effect on the real estate market. In this video I offer a few tips to make your ...

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 news than down, well not always, but in this case... As we all know the Vancouver real estate ...

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 ...

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 so on my way back I pulled it out and shot a quick video about the challenges of selling a home on ...

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 of the real estate market was delayed by the  ... recent mortgage innovation that ...

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). Every time after that you would have to push the "PLAY" button to here the audio. ...

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 a hang-over prices inflation as they re-adjust to the idea that the demand for the product may ...