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Here s an interesting comparison that came up in in the discussion earlier comparing a couple of North American property markets. First off space889 pointed out this nice large lot on the west side of Vancouver that is up for sale asking $3,280,000 ...

topics: condo, west-side

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Local developer Ian Gillespie is experimenting with the idea of building a downtown condo that is affordable to a couple making minimum wage. The tower would be located on Cordova between Gastown and the Downtown Eastside. To keep costs down it wil...

topics: condo, developer, downtown, downtown-eastside, gastown

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Inventory shared some interesting data with us on Friday:sales numbers going back to 1995. Sales numbers for this month up to last Friday continue to be very low, almost reaching back to their 2008 lows, except when it comes to new unit sales, which ...

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The boom has gone bust inland and we re starting to see more and more of these news stories about it. Jimmy pointed out this link to some coverage over at news 1330:Advertised prices on many new developments are down between 20 and 30 per cent, si...

topics: condo, developer, developers

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Like that battery-marketing bunny, the leaky condo crisis keeps going and going.Owners in a 71-unit building in Cloverdale say their builder repaired some leak problems a few years ago. At the time, the work was covered by warranty.But recent testi...

topics: condo, housing

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

VHB pointed out this site on Thursday: Canequity provides actual data for their mortgages across Canada including here in Vancouver. One of the frustrations of anyone trying to study the housing market in Canada is the dearth of publicly available ...

topics: condo, housing, housing-market

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Jonathon sent in a link to this great blast from the past interview with developer Sam Zell about whether there was a real estate bubble in Miami. He makes some very compelling arguments about why there is no real estate bubble, and some of them ...

topics: condo, developer, housing, housing-market, real-estate

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YLTNBoomerang just sent in an update of their Downtown Townhouse listings graph:Like most other market segments we ve hopped up close to the high number of listing we saw sitting on the market in 2008, though inventory growth has moderated lately. ...

topics: condo, downtown

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Clearly the US could use a little Vancouverism. They don t seem to understand that the exciting and nebulous wealthy foreigner concept should be enough to drive a housing market to new highs, not rescue it from new lows. Perhaps the problem is...

topics: condo, housing, housing-market

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What a difference a few months can make in the Vancouver real estate market. Inventory is high and prices are falling, no longer are we seeing the bidding wars of the past. In fact, it s starting to look like reverse bidding wars as sellers compete...

topics: condo, gastown, mls, real-estate