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I think Domus was the first to point out this article in the Wall Street Journal - it looks like the Canadian Housing Bubble is getting some attention in the US media.But some economists who are concerned point out that home prices are rising far fas...

topics: affordability, housing

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Nero pointed out this article in the Globe and Mail about the Big Six Canadian banks urging the government to tighten up mortgage rules to control runaway speculation in the Canadian real estate market. Just to be clear, these are the same banks th...

topics: housing, real-estate

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Several people wrote in and posted a link to this article in Macleans about the Canadian housing bubble. It s an interesting read and a good introduction to anyone who wonders what all this bubble talk is about.Room 32 of the B.C. Supreme Court in ...

topics: housing, housing-market, richmond

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This should come as a surprise to no one, but this province leads the nation when it comes to concern over personal debt according to an RBC report.RBC chief economist and senior vice-president Craig Wright said much of the debt concern centres aroun...

topics: affordability, housing, housing-market, real-estate

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Some more winter-game accommodation stories in the news: There appears to be a problem with the plan to house some visitors in a cruise ship.A plan to berth an 1,100-room cruise ship in North Vancouver for use as a floating hotel during the Olympic...

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You know how when company is coming you shove everything into closets and close the door, pretending that the mess doesn t exist? Well some busybodies have been opening up our closed doors instead of just enjoying the fruit punch:VANCOUVER, British...

topics: downtown, downtown-eastside

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Now that the W has revitalized the Downtown Eastside, eliminating the scourge of homeless, drug addicts, panhandlers and prostitutes there s just one more bold step to complete this neighborhoods transformation: 270 sq foot micro condos.For those kee...

topics: condo, downtown, downtown-eastside

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The Conference Board of Canada is predicting perfect stability in the local real estate market for the year ahead. They see the Metro Vancouver real estate market as currently hot, but not overheating and predict that it likely won t overheat as 2...

topics: new-listings, property-prices, real-estate

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News Flash! This just in, hot off the presses! Vancouver has become one of the most unaffordable cities in the world.Vancouver not only has the least affordable housing of 28 markets measured in Canada, but of 272 metropolitan markets ranked in Ire...

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The Vancouver Real Estate Anecdote Archive (VREAA) has been doing a great job of collecting anecdotes from the great Vancouver housing bubble for a while now, and many reader here will be familiar with that site. VREAA is now running a series calle...

topics: east-vancouver, housing, mls, real-estate