Urban Myths: 15,000 empty condos. - Price Tags

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In retrospect, it should have been obvious. A casual glance while driving over the Cambie or Granville Bridges at night reveals cliffs of glass lit with an incandescent glow. If there were 15,000 empty condos more than entire housing stock of Concord Pacific Place when built out - most of the units would have been dark.But lots of people wanted to believe the myth anyway. Repetition gave it the allure of truth. Hopefully, Andy Yan at Bing Thom s office (BTAworks) has killed it off.The pop...

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topics: condo, downtown, housing

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The empty condo myth

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

A recent study by BTAworks shows that the common perception of a large number of empty condos in the downtown core is false.There has been much public grumbling over the years, with people blaming foreign-owned, empty condos for contributing to the c...

aggregated: 42 weeks 6 days ago | 89 views

topics: condo, downtown, housing, housing-market

Falafel Town in Downtown Vancouver

aggregated from: Chow Times

This was a pretty random pick. Suanne and I was walking along Granville St checking out the place. We wanted to just grab something light to eat and came upon the sign that says Best in Town .I was thinking that Falafel Town could be as good as ...

aggregated: 43 weeks 20 min ago | 72 views

topics: burnaby, downtown, restaurant, restaurant-review

BCREA revises housing forecast: price fall stops, house sales to surge 10% in 2010

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

BCREA release - As part of its Spring 2009 Housing Forecast, the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reported today that housing market conditions have improved more rapidly than expected. As a result, BCREA has revised its home price fo...

aggregated: 42 weeks 5 days ago | 290 views

topics: abbotsford, economy, employment, investment, unemployment

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