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It is expensive to buy a home in British Columbia. This is leading more and more home buyers seeking properties with at least one rental unit on the side. More than half of new homebuyers, some 56 percent, are doing … Continue reading →

Realtors® working with investors are sounding off about the things investors do to make working with them difficult at times. The intent is to help investors make the sales experience more efficient, and considerably more amicable than perhaps they have … Continue reading →

One side effect of the expensive Vancouver housing market is a purely personal one. Couples, who may have bid each other goodbye for personal reasons, are now staying together for financial ones. Finding somewhere to live in this expensive city … Continue reading →

This past week the Vancouver Real Estate Forum got a visit from Natale Bosa and Joe Segal, both noted real estate moguls. They both shared the basics for becoming successful in the industry, namely loving that industry, being able to … Continue reading →

It is a well known fact that housing in Vancouver is expensive and becoming more limited. But what may not be discussed in such great detail is that buying real estate for those that have passed on is just as … Continue reading →

After much debating within the real estate world, the Government of Canada decided to leave the current mortgage rules as they are. The budget presented by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty does intend to cut 19,200 government jobs during the next … Continue reading →

A new perk for first time home buyers is a $10,000 bonus in the form of a refundable personal tax credit. The one-time credit is the equivalent of five percent of a home’s purchase price up to the $10,000 maximum. … Continue reading →

The Downtown Eastside in Vancouver is seeing more and more condos and apartments, many of them new, being rented at market rates. This trend is on a path to outpace the subsidized housing market, which leases out at non-market rates. … Continue reading →

TD Bank is warning Canadians that there is a very real risk of a housing bubble in several parts of the country. Some cities have properties so overvalued that it is a major concern. Vancouver is on the top of … Continue reading →

Residents in Vancouver have a lot to think about when deciding whether to rent or buy property. On one hand, property in the area continues to go up. It is already expensive, but it will be more so in the … Continue reading →