aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

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

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realpaul pointed out this Vancouver Sun article. The day after we got the news that house prices are falling in Vancouver, Royal LePage has released a market survey predicting house prices and sales will decline towards the end of the year .However...

topics: condo, house-prices

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

The REBGV stats for June 2010 are now available. If a month ago was a good time to buy some Vancouver real estate, than right now is an even gooderer time! If you were shopping for the benchmark home a month ago, you can now buy that same house and...

topics: condo, housing, real-estate, west-side, west-vancouver

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There are two ways to think about a purchase you can focus on the price, or you can focus on the value . Local developer James Shouw points out that you shouldn t really worry about all the numbers and stats because Value is forever.For example...

topics: condo, developer, real-estate

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The government of BC has found a terrific new way for you to help out with provincial finances: Buy more stuff. It doesn t matter what you buy, as long as you buy more of it and pay more taxes on many items. Oddly enough not everyone loves this p...

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

We may be running out of land, but we sure aren t running out of apartments for sale. Just in case you haven t noticed, VHB has been tracking downtown / False Creek North condo inventory in the forum and we re seeing quite a number of places for sa...

topics: condo, downtown, false-creek

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Canadian Mortgage Trends has an article about getting your mortgage approved before prices fall.When home prices do fall, it makes it tougher for certain people to qualify for a mortgage especially for refinances. When prices start dropping, apprai...

topics: condo, real-estate

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

We posted this in the free for all, but it s worth taking a closer look: Eleven pre-sales buyers at the Vancouver Olympic Village are unhappy with their units and are trying to get out of their contract. They complain about changes to plan and faul...

topics: condo, developer, developers, false-creek, property-prices

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Yesterday we posted a link to an article about the high number of properties for sale in Vancouver. What s possibly more interesting than the sheer number of listings in the very high number of price reductions we re currently seeing. Yesterday Pau...

topics: condo, new-listings