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When Should I Reduce My Vancouver Condo Price?

by Maggie Chandler April 13, 2012 How To Price Your Home

When should I reduce my Vancouver condo price? This is not a question sellers often ask me! Naturally they’d rather increase their property price! There are many different strategies for selling your property. Is it a sellers or buyers market and how motivated is the seller? As well, sellers should make property price decisions based …

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Are Vancouver Real Estate Prices Moving Up?

by Maggie Chandler April 11, 2012 How's The Market

Clients are always asking me how’s the property market? Are Vancouver real estate prices up or down and by what percentage? I ask them what type of property are they referring to and what neighbourhood and what time frame. The market used to do the same thing for all types of properties and all neighbourhoods …

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The World’s Top 10 Cities for the Mega Wealthy – Vancouver Real Estate News

by Maggie Chandler April 6, 2012 Latest News

Citi Private Bank and the London-based real estate advisors, Knight Frank , just came out with their Wealth Report 2012,  a study of the globe’s ultra rich and where they are buying property. Consider it a global version of Penta’s much-read annual list, Best Places for …

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Featuring Downtown Vancouver’s H&H at 1133 Homer Street – Condos for Sale

by Maggie Chandler April 5, 2012 Downtown

H&H at 1133 Homer in Downtown Vancouver is one of my favourite condo buildings. Built in 2008.

Currently there are seven listings from $325,000 for 500sf . This would make a great investment becuase there are many renters at the bottom of the market and current rent would be around $1200 pr month. Highest priced …

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What’s the Newest Technology that Sells Vancouver Homes?

by Maggie Chandler April 5, 2012 Latest News

Intelligent Living Corp. (“ILVC”) /quotes/zigman/8123543 ILVC -44.44% , a leading provider of green building solutions, today announced the completion of their latest smart home project in Vancouver, BC. The 6,500 sqft custom home, located in Shaughnessy, Vancouver’s “grand old neighborhood,” was designed and built …

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Proposed Delta Farmland To Exit the ALR for Gateway project Infrastructure

by Maggie Chandler April 5, 2012 Latest News

A warehouse developer has signed a $98-million deal to buy 600 acres of south Delta’s prime farmland for industrial use.

Documents unearthed by Delta South Independent MLA Vicki Huntington indicate the option-to-purchase deal involves 11 productive farm parcels located in the Agricultural Land Reserve between Highway 17 and Deltaport …

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How is the Vancouver Real Estate Inventory?

by Maggie Chandler April 4, 2012 How's The Market

How’s the Vancouver (west side)  real estate market? Is the inventory up or down compared to a year ago? Good time to sell or sit it out and wait for inventory to drop?

The highest inventory for condos are 2 bedrooms

1,2 and 3 bedrooms are all a tad higher than a year ago

For townhomes the …

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How Long Does it Take to Sell A Vancouver Property?

by Maggie Chandler April 4, 2012 Home Prices and Trends

When you decide to sell your Vancouver property, pay attention to the number of days it takes to sell a property like yours in your neighbourhood.

The time frame has increased for Vancouver homes, townhomes and condos compared to a year ago. Homes are selling the quickest.

Days on Market for Vancouver West.

Buying or selling Vancouver Real …

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Vancouver’s Lofty Real Estate Prices and Unspoken Race Issue

by Maggie Chandler April 4, 2012 Latest News

In Saturday’s column, I wrote about a study of Vancouver real estate prices by Andy Yan, an urban planner with Bing Thom Architects and an adjunct professor with the University of B.C.’s School of Community and Regional Planning.

In the study, Yan plotted the worth of all homes in neighbour-hoods zoned …

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How are Real Estate Sales for Vancouver West?

by Maggie Chandler April 3, 2012 Home Prices and Trends

March saw Vancouver’s west side house sales down to 152 (peaked in Mar’11 at 282)

townhomes up to 68 (peaked in Jun’09 at 123)

condos up to 396 (topped in Jun’09 at 826 sales)

Jan’09 was the lowest month for sales since 2006. View the chart below.

Sales for Vancouver West.

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