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West End Community Visioning Forum

January 28th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WERA (West End Residents Association):

"YOUR STORY. OUR FUTURE."
West End Community Visioning Forum
Sunday, January 31, 2010
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
St. Paul’s Anglican Church at 1130 Jervis Street

(Optional potluck. Refreshments served)

Description: This is part of a campaign for community-based planning and a
comprehensive community vision for the West End.  Includes visioning
w ...

Live City Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics free concert schedule

January 26th, 2010

Hello Vancouver Real Estate Watchers

We are now only 17 days away from the most exciting event to happen in Vancouver since Expo 1986....The 2010 Winter Olympics! Yeah!!!  With the Olympics comes tons of free events and concerts to entertain the 2.3 million people that will be coming to our great city of Vancouver and also the locals.  My Century 21 In Town Realty office is located right in ...

No evidence of a post-Olympics boom or bust for host city real estate prices: UBC study

January 26th, 2010

Hello Vancouver Real Estate Watchers

Here is a great blog post from Canadaviews.ca and the Sauder School of Business at UBC about the impact of the winter Olympics on the Real Estate market in Vancouver.  Enjoy as it is very positive!

Vancouver Real Estate Olympic Rings

by: University of British Columbia | Jan 25th, 2010

Cities that win Olympic bids experience neither boom nor bust in their real estate prices, but gain cons ...

The way of the future - Will we all be driving and flying? The Terrafugia

January 7th, 2010

FLYING CAR

A friend of mine came across a website the other day and passed onto me so I could take a look at what the future of transportation may become.  I go on the site and at first I thought it was some kind of joke but after reading through the information I am very excited to see if this does become the future of transportation.....THE FLYING CAR!!!!!  The company is call Terrafugia an ...

December 2009 Greater Vancouver Real Estate Market Statistics

January 5th, 2010

Slow start, strong finish for housing market in 2009

 VANCOUVER, B.C. – January 5, 2010


After beginning the year at near record low sales levels, buyers’ confidence in the Greater Vancouver housing market quickly returned, allowing for significant and sustained increases in the number of residential property sales for much of 2009.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports t ...