aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

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

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Don sent in this link to a story in the Wall Street Journal about a Google property portal that would allow real estate agents AND private sellers to put property for sale as a map search overlay. Some predict that if a system like this became wi...

topics: mls, real-estate

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

This site began in June 2006. For this weeks open topic Friday Free-for-all, let s take a look back at some of the stories we ve covered. In the last 3 years we ve seen the US market bubble crash hard - Case Shiller recently recorded Phoenix as t...

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

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Late game push by the TimbersThe Vancouver Whitecaps recorded their win of the still young 2009 United Soccer Leagues (USL) season last night with a one - nil win over the Portland Timbers. The only goal of the game coming from a 63rd minute strike...

topics: mls, soccer, strike

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

The discussion around affordability keeps coming up, especially with the recent drop in housing prices and lower interest rates. Arguments for and against real estate are often rationalized based on affordability from both bulls and bears. But w...

topics: affordability, condo, housing, mls, real-estate

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

If you missed it yesterday Major League Soccer is coming to Vancouver in 2011 [mbv], and you can reserve your right to be the first in line for seasons tickets starting tomorrow at the official site of Vancouver s embryo of an MLS team [vm11]. Me...

topics: mls, soccer

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

After years of rumours [mbv] it seems like Vancouver is going to get an Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise. Granted it s at a slightly low point for the MLS, after the David Beckham experiment which was meant to prove that soccer in America was on...

topics: mls, shows, soccer

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

From the REBGV press release:VANCOUVER, B.C. March 3, 2008 Residential housing sales in Greater Vancouver rose 94 per cent in February compared to the month before, with 1,480 sales registered in February compared to 762 sales in January, whi...

topics: condo, housing, mls, new-listings, real-estate

aggregated from: condohype

Great deals out there is a 1,006-word commentary written by Jennifer Podmore Russell, the head of a Vancouver real estate market research firm. The stated goal of the article is to provide simple facts related to the Vancouver real estate market...

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

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

There was (still is?) a great ad campaign down in the United States, called Real men of genius , which mock salutes occupations. Listen to some of the ads at this URL: http://thefuntimesguide.com/2004/10/bud_light_real.phpThat, and this house that I...

topics: condo, mls