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Housing supply and demand reach closer alignment in January

2010-02-09

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HST Questions and Answers

2010-02-09

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Housing starts expected to show continuing recovery, trade to stay in the red

2010-02-08

Derek Abma Sun This week's economic data are anticipated to show continuing recovery in Canada's new-housing market, although the country's trade balance is expected to remain in negative territory. Today, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. …

Housing starts rise again in January

2010-02-08

Sun Actual housing starts in 2009 totalled 149,081 units, CHMC said. Photograph by: Roy Antal/Canwest News Service, Roy Antal/Canwest News Service OTTAWA -- Housing starts beat estimates in January, rising to the highest level since October…

Mexico's bounty of beaches

2010-02-07

Traipsing through a bevy of sunny, sandy Shangri-Las Anne Georg Province A tranquil sunrise at pristine San Auustinillo Beach. __ CALGARY HERALD A tranquil sunrise at pristine San Augustinillo beach. Calgary Herald As winter clenched its ic…

Tips on home reno credit

2010-02-07

If you run a business, you may lose exemption Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: Do strata corporations have to file tax returns? We are a 24-unit townhouse complex. Our budget is limited to insurance, landscaping and building mainte…

Tips on home reno credit

2010-02-07

Mainland Chinese buyers led luxury-home market recovery

2010-02-06

Canada seen as a safe storehouse for personal wealth Derrick Penner Sun It took a couple of months, but sales of luxury homes in 2009 caught up to the general real estate market driven largely by buyers from mainland China, one dealer in hi…

Tech startup takes mind-controlled computing out of science fiction and into real life

2010-02-06

Gillian Shaw Sun InteraXon CEO Ariel Garten demonstrates the levitating chair trick. The tech startup hopes an Olympic audience will help move it into the mainstream. If you're planning to be at the upcoming Vancouver Olympics, take time to…

Burns Block small-space residency has a big history

2010-02-06

Presence of natural light, absence of clutter important: Gordon Price Peter Simpson Sun A Burns Block room, in an artist’s rendering. Size does indeed matter. Just ask the Surrey homeowners troubled by the 4,000-plus-square-foot home …

False Creek lands now a model for urban renewal

2010-02-06

Sun Concord Pacific has been a lead participant in the downtown Vancouver skyline transformation since Expo 86. Its 2010 Winter Games contribution is commensurate to that history: "Concord Place" is the largest open-to-all community celebra…

Winter Games’ influence on local real estate impossible to know, but it’s good to know ...

2010-02-06

Vancouver, from the day the first train pulled in, has always done well by gatherings of outsiders CLAUDIA KWAN Sun Who knew Expo 86 would transform Vancouver into George Wong’s ‘international city that’s incredibly livabl…

Vancouver residents are already Olympic winners

2010-02-06

Infrastructure projects, public transit improvements and recreational facilities became priorities thanks to the Winter Games BOB RANSFORD Sun It was more than eight years ago that I wrote in this space about the way the Olympics might shap…

Building permits up sharply in B.C., StatsCan analysts say

2010-02-05

Brian Morton Sun B.C. recorded the largest increase in building permit values in the country in December, according to a Statistics Canada survey released Thursday. A strong residential sector was cited as the main reason in the report, whi…

If your project requires permits, hire a general contractor

2010-02-05

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Get a grip on a great Mexican sandwich

2010-02-04

These gourmet tortas require a firm grasp and a hearty appetite, but are well worth the effort and the price Mia Stainsby Sun Diana Zapata shows off one of the big gourmet Mexican sandwiches available at Las Tortas on Vancouver's south Camb…

Missed the move to HD-TV? You can skip straight to high-definition 3-D

2010-02-04

Gillian Shaw Sun There's good news for late adopters who haven't got around to upgrading to a new high definition television yet. Instead of having to shell out for yet another television to replace a high def set, you can skip that and ins…

Builder proud that partnership produced affordable rent in Downtown Eastside

2010-02-04

Malcolm Parry Sun Downtown 'microloft' tenants get a break on rent, but it cost Peter rezansoff's ITC Construction Group $500,000 to provide it. BETTER RENTS: ITC Construction Group president/ CEO Peter Rezansoff , 70, is pleased that rents…

Housing prices soar

2010-02-03

Province House prices in Greater Vancouver reached new highs last month even as the number of new listings soared. The benchmark price for all classes of homes in the area climbed to $573,241 in January, 0.8 per cent higher than the market'…

U.S. housing market headed for double-dip decline, CIBC says

2010-02-03

John Morrissy Sun U.S. housing prices are headed for a double-dip decline that will hurt related equities which have already priced in a recovery in the sector, CIBC warns. "Many companies will be affected," said Benjamin Tal , senior econo…

Metro house prices hit new record

2010-02-03

$788,499 beats previous high by 2 per cent Derrick Pener Sun Metro Vancouver house prices reached a new peak in January, while the overall pace of sales across the Lower Mainland eased off the torrid pace seen in December, according to repo…

The HST - What Your Clients Need To Know

2010-02-03