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How Much Would You Pay for Permanent Residency in Canada? Vancouver Homes for Sale

by Maggie Chandler March 21, 2012 Latest News

As investment clubs go, it’s one of the more unusual ones around — the money you spend to join isn’t really an investment and it’s not really a club. But more and more people are trying to join and it could soon become one of the more expensive memberships to have.

The Canadian …

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East Vancouver Real Estate Graph

by Maggie Chandler March 19, 2012 Latest News

See how East Vancouver homes, townhomes and condos are performing.

Compare listings, solds, average price and dollar volume by month for the last year.

A good market for buyers!

View East Vancouver real estate graph

Buying or Selling Vancouver real estate?

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Canada Could Be the Freest Trading Nation on Earth – Real Estate News in Vancouver

by Maggie Chandler March 19, 2012 Latest News

Within the next few years, Canada could well become the freest trading nation on the face of the Earth. Roughly 75 per cent of our trade is already free, thanks to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and its successor, NAFTA. And that, as you’ll see, is just the start.

A …

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S & P Predicts European Economic Crisis to End in 2012

by Maggie Chandler March 16, 2012 Latest News

The credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, believes that the European macroeconomic crisis will not extend beyond 2012, which will result in a “significant recovery” of European real estate markets in 2013.

“Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services believes that the macroeconomic crisis may not extend beyond 2012. We still expect …

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Mainland Chinese Buyers still Like Canadian Real Estate – Homes for Sale in Vancouver

by Maggie Chandler March 16, 2012 Latest News

Overseas investors are snapping up properties in Canada’s largest cities, driving up prices and pushing ordinary Canadians out of the housing market, observers say.

Real EstateMapping average home prices across CanadaWhere housing costs have gone up, down or stalled

Real estate experts call it the “new reality,” and the …

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Real Estate Sales in the North and Interior Lead in BC

by Maggie Chandler March 15, 2012 Latest News

The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that the dollar volume of homes sold through Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in BC declined 9.6 per cent to $3.4 billion in February compared to the same month last year. A total of 5,923 MLS® residential unit sales were recorded over the same period, a decline of …

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Canadian Housing Starts to Slow Slightly over next 24 Months – Real Estate News in Vancouver

by Maggie Chandler March 15, 2012 Latest News

New home construction in Canada is expected to slow mildly over the next two years, the Conference Board of Canada said on Tuesday, in another sign of a cooling housing market.

The independent research organization’s latest report forecast housing starts will be 190,000 units in both 2012 and 2013. …

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Vancouver’s Seaplane Terminal Controversy – Real Estate News in Vancouver

by Maggie Chandler March 14, 2012 Latest News

This is a tale of two terminals.

On one side, gleaming with all the expected bells and whistles, the new $21-million seaplane terminal at the Vancouver Convention Centre sits empty.

Just to the west, a hodgepodge of Atco trailers and wooden docks marks the “temporary” seaplane terminal, which is busy and …

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Will Vancouver’s Ridge Theatre Be Demolished? Vancouver Homes for Sale

by Maggie Chandler March 13, 2012 Latest News

The operator of the Ridge Theatre says it’s premature to talk of its demise.

Leonard Schein, president of Festival Cinemas, told the Straight by phone that his company has a lease until September 30, 2013 in the strip mall on the northwest corner of Arbutus Street and West 16th Avenue …

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RBC Offers 2.99% to Vancouver Home Buyers – Real Estate News in Vancouver

by Maggie Chandler March 12, 2012 Latest News

As Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney once again warned about the high levels of Canadian household debt on Thursday, Royal Bank of Canada became the second bank this week to offer a special-low mortgage rate of 2.99 per cent to entice prospective home-buyers.

The RBC rate, effective Friday, is …

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