Real Estate News & Articles

2009-06-18

Lively location adds to the flavour Mia Stainsby Sun Burrard Bridge Marine restaurant is known for its nautical theme and the pirate antiques around the room. Photograph by: Steve Bosch, Vancouver Sun BURRARD BRIDGE MARINE BAR AND GRILL 101…

2009-06-17

Sharply shrinking economy will knock wind out of B.C. businesses' sails Paul Luke Province B.C.'s lumber-reliant forest industry will be stuck in survival mode because recovery in U.S home building remains elusive. Photograph by: Sam Leung,…

2009-06-17

Civil investigations can turn into criminal Vern Krishna Sun The line between a civil audit and a criminal investigation is not always clear and the Canada Revenue Agency likes it that way. Photograph by: Jean Levac, Canwest News Service, F…

2009-06-17

Civil investigations can turn into criminal Vern Krishna Sun The line between a civil audit and a criminal investigation is not always clear and the Canada Revenue Agency likes it that way. Photograph by: Jean Levac, Canwest News Service, F…

2009-06-17

Other Mortgage brokers' share of the first-time homebuyers' market has increased to 44 per cent, up from 35 per cent in 2007, according to CMHC's 2009 Mortgage Consumer Survey. The survey - which polled 2,507 recent mortgage consumers - sho…

2009-06-16

Province With the housing market continuing to rebound nationally, Greater Vancouver was second only to Edmonton in rising prices. — GETTY Greater Vancouver posted Canada 's second-highest increase in house sales last month. Sales in …

2009-06-16

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2009-06-16

Public appetite for the wireless devices insatiable, firm's CEO says Jamie Sturgeon Sun Rogers Communications Inc. plans to recast the definition of the Internet and how it is used as more Canadians transition toward smart-phones. "The noti…

2009-06-16

Nearly six million users sign up for new naming convention on social media site Gillian Shaw Sun Dustin Moskovitz (above) co-founded Facebook in 2004 with Mark Zuckerberg while the two were students at Harvard University. On Monday, the URL…

2009-06-16

Home supply still needs to be drawn down for widespread price increases Sun Home sales in Metro Vancouver jumped 16.4 per cent in May from a year earlier, according to figures compiled by the Canadian Real Estate Association. That comes at …

2009-06-16

USA Today WASHINGTON — Construction of new homes jumped in May by the largest amount in three months, providing an encouraging sign that the nation's deep housing recession may be bottoming. The Commerce Department says construction o…

2009-06-15

Paul Delean Province Q: Now appears to be a good time to buy real estate in the U.S. My wife and I are interested in areas of Florida and California . If I become a property owner in the U.S. , is there a tax impact on my Canadian assets? D…

2009-06-14

Strata corps hold off on repairs as owners struggle with levies Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: We purchased our home last July for $385,000 and put five per cent down plus paid for our mortgage insurance and property purchase tax…

2009-06-14

Trike takes images of hiking, biking trails Jefferson Graham Province MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Meet the Google trike . It's the sequel, of sorts, to the Google Maps-mobile, a specially rigged car with an antenna, GPS and camera that snaps 3…

2009-06-14

GOVERNMENT GRANTS: Now you can get higher rebates for making home more energy-efficient MIKE HOLMES Province A specialist performs a blower door test for air tightness as part of a post-retrfit audit on a house. – CANWEST NEWS SERVICE…

2009-06-13

First-time buyer, however, has her mind made up and wants quality 'specs' Kim Pemberton Sun Jen Natic is a 25-year-old first-time buyer who says buying the best she can buy will pay dividends. 'In a perfect world, I'd have a new place with …

2009-06-13

Sun Since January, Landcor Data Corp. has been putting nearly 466,000 Lower Mainland addresses through its proprietary property-valuation software to help Vancouver Sun readers better understand local property values. In March, Landcor foun…

2009-06-13

Our ever-evolving technology is a runaway train that has forever changed the way we live Shelley Fralic Sun Apple's new iPhone 3GS with its many applications that we can use to organize our entire lives is a sign of how technology keeps tak…

2009-06-12

Vancouver, Richmond, Langley recession proof? Lena Sin, with a file from Jack Keating Province Realtors Jill Oudil and Terry Gardiner pose with a house they sold on Percival Avenue in Burnaby in the resurgent Market. JASON PAYNE – THE…

2009-06-12

Derrick Penner Sun Renee Tillmanns and her son Logan, 4, outside their Langley Township home that sold for $495,000, slightly above the Multiple Listing Service average price of $490,354 for the neighbourhood in April. Photograph by: Ian Li…

2009-06-12

Options include reducing it with homeowner grant and deferred payment Fiona Anderson Sun Just when you get one set of taxes all squared away for the year, it's time for another. This time it's property tax. But unlike income taxes, there is…

2009-06-12

Derrick Penner Sun Developers of the high-profile Jameson House condominium project in downtown Vancouver won court approval on Thursday for a plan to restructure and get construction back on track. However, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice…

2009-06-11

Citizens struggle to put a roof over their heads, survey says Province Vancouverites pay the highest rents in Canada and have a tough time putting a roof over their heads, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says. Monthly rents in the Vancouv…

2009-06-11

New home prices dropping faster than in the rest of Canada Derrick Penner Sun Metro Vancouver home hunters are seeing relief on two fronts, with rental-apartment vacancy rates rising and new-home prices falling, according to new statistics …