Blog by Craig, Adam & the MyWestEndCondo Team

REBGV June Stats are out - Summer market is heading towards balance

July 11th, 2011

Summer housing market trends toward balance after an active spring season

Home sellers outpaced buyers on Greater Vancouver’s Multiple Listings Service® (MLS®) in June, drawing the market back toward balance this summer.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales of detached, attached and apartment properties reached 3,262 in June, a 9.8 per c ...

Vancouvers West End has Towers to come

October 30th, 2010

Is this the future look of Burrard Street?

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Two big Vancouver companies are proposing to build three new downtown towers near the Burrard Bridge that could impair the view of the North Shore Mountains from Queen Elizabeth Park.

Jim Pattison Developments and Reliance Properties have put 23 city lots together between Burrard and Hornby streets to build the 48- and 36-storey residential towers ...

There are two million reasons for high prices in Vancouver

August 23rd, 2010
There are two million reasons for high prices in Vancouver

City’s housing affordability problem boils down to too many people on too little land

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What drives Vancouver’s house prices so relentlessly to levels four times higher than Winnipeg’s, and more than half again what Torontonians pay?

What drives Vancouver’s house prices so relentlessly to levels four times higher than Winnipeg’s, and ...

Tallest building to be built out of Vancouvers downtown core being proposed

May 31st, 2010
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  A new development has been proposed by developer PCI, they want to take the land at the corner of Cambie and Marine Drive in Vancouver and build the tallest building outside of the downtown core.  PCI has proposed to the city a complex at the new skytrain station that would include a 30 story residential tower which would rise 350 feet and would include 577 residential units, 390 of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bank of Canada update

December 8th, 2009

The Bank of Canada has maintained the Over Night Rate at 0.25%. Therefore RBC Prime will remain unchanged at 2.25%.
 
The next date for the Bank of Canada to review the Over Night Rate will be January 19 2010.

Adam Knight
Century 21 In Town Realty
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