Real Estate News & Articles

Annual suite inspections should forestall problems

2007-09-23

Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: Our strata council has been dealing with an owner who, we suspect over the years, has never thrown out a thing, including the garbage. We suspected there were problems because (the owner has) always…

HOTEL GEORGIA APARTMENTS' PRICES HIT THE MILLIONS

2007-09-22

Sun The Sotheby's sales and marketing organization has released a price list for tower apartments in the Private Residences at Hotel Georgia. One-bedroom apartments will start at $605,000; one plus den, at $989,000. Two-bedroom apartments w…

Gourmet grocer opens Coal Harbour Urban Fare

2007-09-21

Bute Street outlet opening Sunday slightly smaller than Yaletown original Bruce Constantineau Sun Steve van der Leest, president of Overwaitea Food Group, is shown in the Urban Fare opening Sunday at 305 Bute The wait will soon be over for …

US Sub Prime Mortgage Situation & the effect on Canadian Banks

2007-09-21

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Do Greater Vancouver Property Owners Need Title Insurance

2007-09-21

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Baan there, done that, liked it

2007-09-20

Eatery affordable, and offers a complex Pad Thai Mark Laba Province Owner Wasana Phutmoh (right) and manager Amgsana Suboon of Baan Wasana proudly display pineapple fried rice with prawns, Tod Mann pla (fish cakes) and satay chicken. Photog…

Transylvania's toothsome delights

2007-09-20

Eastern European restaurant moves into a larger space, offering traditional, home-style cooking with Old World charm Katya Holloway Sun Owner Nick Cruciat (left) and brother-in-law Ciprian Sebastian Hortopet serve a dish of Chicken Paprikas…

Food fast and healthy at Nuba

2007-09-20

Lebanese dishes come three different ways at downtown eatery Mia Stainsby Sun Jeremy Duckworth and Victor Bouzide (with a Turkish coffee) inside Nuba. Photograph by : Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun It's hard to run a place that's almost fast…

What to expect from your real estate agent

2007-09-20

Sun The stakes are high in the residential real estate game in this province. With Canada 's top prices, record activity and continued growth in new construction, you need all the expert help you can get. Most experts in real estate concur …

Office vacancy rate tightest here

2007-09-19

Ashley Ford Province Vancouver’s downtown office-vacancy rate surpassed Calgary’s to become the lowest in Canada during the third quarter. - BLOOMBERG House buying is rampant, office space is super tight, and the provincial econ…

Core office space is at record premium

2007-09-19

At 3%, downtown Vancouver has tighter market than booming Calgary Derrick Penner Sun Vancouver 's downtown office vacancy rate shrunk to a new low of three per cent, inching past Calgary as the tightest central office market in the country,…

B.C. home sales jump 14% in June-to-August period

2007-09-19

August sales 25.9% higher than the same month in 2006 Sun The cool, damp summer may have been disappointing for campers, but all those rainy weekends must have been good for house-hunting -- British Columbia home sales were 14 per cent high…

Criminals target trusted websites

2007-09-17

Canada ranks second worldwide as top source of malicious Internet activity Gillian Shaw Sun Trusted websites have become the patient zero for some viral epidemics in the virtual world with sophisticated cyber-criminals using them to lure un…

State of the industry

2007-09-17

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The Challenge of designing for the Olympics

2007-09-17

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Overview of the Real Estate scene

2007-09-17

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Community garden, car-sharing offered to Foundry residents

2007-09-17

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Mount Pleasant's Jacobsen embraces West Coast Living

2007-09-17

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Vancouver's Ritz-Carlton - The peak of luxury living

2007-09-17

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Urban home sales fall

2007-09-16

Prices down from July, but up from year ago Helen Morris Province Realtors say supply and demand have become more balanced. – CANWEST NEWS SERVICE/OTTAWA CITIZEN OTTAWA -- Home sales in the country's major cities eased in August, down…

Strata corps need AGMs

2007-09-16

Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: We live in a triplex built in 1985.While we are a strata corporation we have chosen to operate informally. We have never convened an official annual general meeting, we have no bylaws, no minutes of…

Microsoft rivals finally come up with the goods

2007-09-16

ROB PEGORARO Province WASHINGTON POST Microsoft Office is as much a part of the workplace as drawn-out meetings and bad coffee. But Microsoft’s combination of Word, Excel and PowerPoint is not the only way to write, crunch numbers or …

Ultimate all-in-one remote control

2007-09-15

Gillian Shaw Sun . Bang & Olufsen Beo5 remote control, $660 Cdn If you've read this far after seeing the price tag on Bang & Olufsen's futuristic remote control, you're definitely among the home entertainment aficionados who are alw…

High-resolution satellite to upgrade photos

2007-09-15

Sun WASHINGTON -- DigitalGlobe , provider of imagery for Google Inc.'s interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive. The new spacecr…