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The Vancouver Sun has an interesting series of articles starting up on the myths of real estate which so far falls a little short of the promised 2 million reasons for the high price of Vancouver real estate but has some interesting stats courtesy ...

topics: condo, granville-island, house-prices, real-estate

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The cover story in the current issue of Canadian Business: our housing bubble.Resale prices are falling. Yet all this fits neatly with a prevailing opinion among realtors, economists and federal officials: that a combination of new harmonized sales t...

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

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Continuing with the theme of yesterdays post, inventory has posted the new unit sales numbers for all of Vancouver. Dramatic, though not as dramatic as Vancouver West alone. Are we seeing the biggest changes in the most desireable neighborhoods l...

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Inventory posted some more interesting stats: New unit sales in Vancouver West during August for the last 15 years we re just about to the half way point for this month, but that number looks low!August Van. West NEW units sales (homes, condo, ...

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Over at the CBC they re talking about the expectations of lower sales across Canada, but a magic kind of lower sales that doesn t really lead to much in the way of price drops: It comes down to the different psychology that exists between buyers and...

topics: condo, real-estate

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Crashcow posed an interesting question the other day: Most regular posters of this blog understand the dynamics of housing bubbles well. What is also an interesting puzzle is why some people naturally understand these concepts while others don't?One ...

topics: condo, housing

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

No Longer Looking points out this great editorial in the Vancouver Sun. I m trying to figure out if it s intent is the calm people about the Vancouver real estate market slow down, or freak them right out:I penned this editorial to calm fears that t...

topics: condo, housing, housing-market, mortgage-rates, real-estate

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Both Jimmy and Patriotz pointed out this story: real estate markets around the globe are slumping once again, but the change is most dramatic in Canada.Canada led in the global housing recovery in the first quarter of 2010, but moderating global grow...

topics: affordability, condo, housing, real-estate

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

ReadytoPop posted a link to this Financial Post article that portrays what it looks like when a real estate bet turns bad:Erica and Jeff Manger never thought the price of their house could drop.The Alberta couple bought a condominium in the Rockies r...

topics: condo, real-estate, realtor

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

The hot summer is not so hot for the Vancouver real estate market which seems to be withering on the vine. July saw the third month of price declines that started at the April peak. If this keeps up how much longer will we be able to hold on to our...

topics: affordability, burnaby, condo, coquitlam, delta