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Soaring 'Loonie' has Canadians looking south of border for real estate bargains

May 13th, 2010
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Vancouver is the nation's 'hot spot

Canada has been enjoying a great real estate market with double-digit appreciation for most of the last five years. The only exception was a brief downturn at the beginning of last year with the onset of the global economic crisis. That downturn only lasted a few months (if you blinked, you missed it!), and since then the market has come roaring back wi ...

Olympic condo owner stages protest

May 13th, 2010
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Disgruntled condo owner Leo Chen carries a sandwich board with a message for potential buyers.


Exclusive condominiums worth millions of dollars go on sale Saturday at the former Olympic athletes' village in Vancouver, but one disgruntled owner is trying to warn potential buyers to beware.

Leo Chen is one of about 260 people who purchased condos before the Millennium Water development was ...

Real estate agents approve new MLS rules

March 22nd, 2010
BLOG #27

CREA approved changes for MLS listings


The Canadian Real Estate Association approved changes Monday that will give those who buy or sell their homes on the association's listing service more power to handle portions of the transaction on their own.

In a move to cut off a challenge by the Competition Bureau, the association's members voted at its annual general meeting in Ottawa to loosen ...

Vancouver real estate gets huge pulse in Olympic month

March 3rd, 2010

Blog #26

What a difference a year makes.


Last year at this time, the Metro Vancouver housing market was just beginning to emerge from one of the biggest slowdowns in years.

This February when the city was hosting the Winter Olympics, home sales in the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver were up 67.1 percent over February 2009.


Sales down from two years ago, BUT up from last month


However, F ...

You CAN make a real estate listing search site, just dont violate MLS' standard agreement between brokers and real estate boards

February 10th, 2010
Blog #26: MLS rules

(Metro Vancouver's hot real estate market as seen from the view of V6A;
V6A is at 221 Union)

Real estate industry forced to loosen rules....

The Competition Bureau's move to force the real estate industry to loosen its rules governing the multiple listing service will not bring to Canada the huge range of house-hunting tools available in the United States.

That's because the bureau's ac ...

Google sets up Street View on the ski slopes just in time for Winter Olympics

February 9th, 2010

From the street to the mountain.....

Google Street View has upped the interest factor by adding a new component, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics.



Filmed on a bobsled with a camera in hand, Google has moved their street view concept on to the ski slopes by showing off ski runs in Whistler, Cyprus and Grouse. Viewers will now be able to experience, up close and personal, all of the ...

Winter Games' influence on real estate

February 9th, 2010

Blog #25: Winter Games / Real Estate

Vancouver, from the day the first train pulled in, has always done well by gatherings of outsiders


Will the Winter Games help or hinder the metropolitan Vancouver real estate market, or hardly have any affect? Opinion, of course, is divided. Who can know the future?

The past, however, suggests Vancouver real estate is simultaneously exceptional and unexceptional.

Advances and retreats in ...

Vancouver Real Estate Sales Surge Ahead of Winter Olympics

February 8th, 2010

Blog #24 The Mark Yaletown
(The Mark is situated in the trendy Yaletown district of Vancouver)

All eyes will be on North America's hottest property markets


When the Olympic flame enters BC Place Stadium on Feb. 12, the world's spotlight will fall on one of North America's hottest property markets.


November saw the highest volume of sales in Vancouver since 2005


In November more than 7,721 properties were sold ...

Vancouver the Beautiful: Amazing Time-Lapse Video of Vancouver

January 28th, 2010

"Vancouver City" music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Linda Ganzini's beautiful and haunting vocals blend with the unique musical style of Serge Chubinski-Orlov who produced and wrote Vancouver City.

For more information and music downloads go to
Inner Life Project

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Vancouver expected to post best economic growth of any Canadian city in 2010

January 27th, 2010

Blog #22
Vancouver's the top economic performer among Canadian cities this year


The Olympic effect will give Vancouver's economy enough of a boost to make it the top economic performer among Canadian cities this year, according to a report Wednesday by the Conference Board of Canada.

The Conference Board forecast that Canada's third-largest city will see economic growth leap by 4.5 per cent this ...

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