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Amazon Vancouver now hiring up to 1,000 employees
2014-01-10
Kenneth Chan Other Got tech skills? Looking for a job? Amazon Vancouver is currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,000 employees for its Canadian development centre in downtown Vancouver. It was announced last fall that Amazon will …
Your Property Assessment
2014-01-09
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Vermeer 13 condos at 2035 W. 4th by Thomas Properties
2014-01-09
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Canadian housing prices rise in fourth quarter of 2013; expected to keep rising, says Royal LePage
2014-01-09
Other TORONTO - The latest Royal LePage housing survey shows average price of a home in Canada increased between 1.2 per cent and 3.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013. It says the average cost of a standard two-storey home rose 3.6 pe…
BC Property Assessment Facts For 2014
2014-01-09
Other BC Assessment sent approximately 1,954,445 assessment notices to British Columbia property owners on December 31, 2013. Everyone should have received it by today January 6, 2014. Your property taxes are calculated on the assessed valu…
Dramatic Change to Vancouver Skyline
2014-01-09
Other The man in charge of Vancouver planning says approving a project that exceeds the city's height restrictions was a no-brainer. Vancouver GM of planning and development Brian Jackson  tells us there's a general height limit of 500…
Vancouver home prices edge upward in the final quarter of 2013
2014-01-09
Renewed confidence and pent-up demand in the real estate market causing price appreciation following slump Other The Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast released today showed year-over-year price increases across all …
Drones getting buzz in Vancouver’s real estate market
2014-01-09
Peter Grainger Other Some clever Vancouver realtors are using a high-flying marketing technique that’s taking selling homes to a new level. Jordan and Russ Macnab are tapping into drone technology to get the upper hand in Canada&rsquo…
Sellers to benefit in strong spring housing market
2014-01-09
TARA PERKINS Other Real estate agency Royal LePage is expecting Canada’s housing market to shift in favour of sellers in the first half of this year, and is forecasting a strong spring. The agency, which represents more than 15,000 Ca…
Vancouver and Toronto property markets rise in 2013
2014-01-09
Sales and values of homes in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Toronto rose during 2013, despite predictions of overheating Other Home sales and values in the major Canadian cities of Vancouver and Toronto have both risen year-on-year in…
Real estate boom continues in Canada’s largest cities
2014-01-06
Average Toronto prices up 5.2%, Vancouver up 2.1% and Calgary up 8.6% Other Repeated warnings of an overheated market failed to deter home buyers in Canada’s largest cities in 2013, with the number of Toronto home sales up two per cen…
Housing market on solid footing
2014-01-06
TARA PERKINS Other Preliminary December sales data from several cities indicate Canada’s housing market is entering the new year in solid shape, with prices again showing more strength than economists expected. After the protracted sa…
Vancouver condo market stays flat
2014-01-05
FRANCES BULA Other Although Vancouver has a reputation as one of the most expensive cities in North America for housing, condo prices stayed flat or even dropped last year, according to recently released assessment numbers. That follows sev…
Vancouver Real Estate Recovers In 2013
2014-01-04
Other Vancouver real estate rebounded in 2013, though the market has yet to reach the heights it achieved two years ago. Sales of detached, attached and apartment properties were up 14 per cent in 2013 over 2012, which was a brutal period f…
Local home sales stable in 2013, but soared in Dec: REBGV
2014-01-03
Richard Dettman Other VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Vancouver-area home sales rose 14 per cent in 2013 in what was “a year of stability” according to an industry group. Sales reported by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver…
Vancouver home sales surge 71 per cent in December
2014-01-03
BRENT JANG Other Home sales soared 71 per cent in Greater Vancouver last month, though the gains are forecast to be more modest in 2014. There were 1,953 properties that changed hands on the Multiple Listing Service in December, up sharply …
How to address common objections to your joint-venture real estate investment deal
2014-01-02
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REITs pensions challenged as foreign investors roll into Vancouver
2014-01-02
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BC Investment Management tower on Thurlow Street in Vancouver on of BC's 2.4 million square feet of new office space
2014-01-01
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Surrey pushes business nodes - industrial land base expanded
2014-01-01
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Can the Government Seize My Home? and Other Property Assessment and Tax Questions
2014-01-01
Michelle Hopkins Other Many British Columbians dread the day the property assessment arrives in the mailbox. It means the municipal tax notice will soon follow, and if the assessment has gone up, the taxes probably will, too. One long-time …
Vancouver Real Estate To See 'Negative Change': Royal LePage
2013-12-20
Other Vancouver's real estate market faces a rough ride in the coming years, says a new report from Royal LePage . The report foresees a dark period for Vancouver housing due to factors such as low job creation, rising interest rates and ch…
Binning Tower 3355 Binning Road by Westbrook
2013-12-19
Graduate to a higher lifestyle: The residences at Binning Tower Other Take a short drive through the forest at Vancouver’s western edge and you enter a whole new world. The Wesbrook master-planned community is a sought-after neighbour…
RE/MAX Housing Market Outlook 2014 for Vancouver
2013-12-19
Other A Look Back at 2013 May’s election marked a turning point for the city, which had suffered through six consecutive quarters of tepid sales activity throughout 2012 and the first two quarters of 2013. The current momentum is expe…
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