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Vancouver home sales drop in February

2017-03-02

Canadian Real Estate Wealth Home sales across Metro Vancouver were down dramatically last month compared with last year's record-breaking pace, while prices across the region remained more stable. The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board say…

Housing options coming to single-family neighbourhoods

2017-03-02

Vancouver looks to increase number of townhomes, row houses, duplexes Mike Howell Vancouver Courier Mayor Gregor Robertson announced Wednesday that changes will be coming to single-family home neighbourhoods in Vancouver to accommodate more…

Problematic for strata to impose alteration agreements retroactively

2017-03-02

New ownership leaves repairs in limbo Tony Gioventu The Province Dear Tony: Our strata corporation is 164 units, mixed-use highrise, townhouse and commercial. Over the past 15 years, a number of strata lots of all three types have made some…

Horseshoe Bay 158 condos at 6409 Bay Street West Vancouver by developer Westbank

2017-03-02

Westbank?s Horseshoe Bay community of condominiums attracts locals, downsizers Mary Frances Hill The Province Horseshoe Bay Address: Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver What: 158 condos and townhomes in six buildings on the waterfront at Horsehow…

Vancouver's historic downtown Rosewood Hotel Georgia to be sold for $145 million

2017-03-02

Rosewood Hotel Georgia to be sold for $145 million Joanne Lee-Young The Province A deal has been struck to sell one of the city’s oldest hotels. The Rosewood Hotel Georgia in downtown Vancouver has been around since 1927. For years, i…

Greater Vancouver condo prices rise despite tumbling sales

2017-03-02

Brent Jang The Globe and Mail Prices for condos and townhomes are climbing in Greater Vancouver, despite tumbling sales. Sales of detached houses, condos and townhomes fell to 2,425 transactions last month, down 41.9 per cent when compared …

Mega-mansions on Richmond farmland spur huge concerns

2017-03-02

Super-sized Richmond farmhouses have 'gotten out of hand' Kent Spencer The Vancouver Sun Perfectly legal farmhouses as large as 22,000 square feet are cropping up on Richmond farmland, among the largest homes allowed in Metro Vancouver. But…

BoC holds rates amid 'economic slack'

2017-03-02

DREW HASSELBACK The Vancouver Sun The Bank of Canada is holding its benchmark overnight interest rate at 0.5 per cent as it says Canada faces “persistent economic slack.” The decision to hold rates was hardly a surprise. Ahead o…

Canada could be losing $1.3B in online sales taxes

2017-03-02

HOLLIE SHAW The Vancouver Sun Canada is losing more than a billion dollars a year in overlooked taxes and duties on goods that Canadian consumers buy online from foreign retailers, according to a new study. The analysis from Copenhagen Econ…

Millennials really want to buy but face barriers says HSBC

2017-03-01

Steve Randall REP An overwhelming majority of millennials want to buy their own home with 83 per cent telling an HSBC survey that they intend to do so in the next 5 years. But the barriers to becoming a first-time buyer include slow wage gr…

Bank of Canada Interest Rate Announcement

2017-03-01

other The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is holding the target for its overnight rate at 0.5 per cent. In the press release accompanying the decision, the Bank noted that growth in the economy is improving and recent higher C…

Bank of Canada Interest Rate Announcement - March 1, 2017

2017-03-01

Andy Blatchford REP The Bank of Canada is holding its trend-setting interest rate at 0.5 per cent but it's keeping a watchful eye on "significant uncertainties'' that it warns could alter the economy's improving trajectory. The central bank…

Is This The Future Of Real Estate Marketing?

2017-03-01

R.L. Adams other While traditional forms of marketing real estate fizzle out, a new era of digital marketing has dawned. Thanks to the global connectivity of the internet, people no longer have to turn to traditional media to market a home …

Meet the Victoria tech firm that helped sway Brexit

2017-02-28

Leave campaign spent $5.7 million with AggregateIQ to separate from EU RANDY SHORE The Vancouver Sun A small technology company in Victoria is being credited with helping Britain’s Vote Leave campaign secure an unlikely win in the Bre…

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