Real Estate News & Articles

Canon's latest lets you zoom smoothly

2007-01-20

Sun CANON DC50 DVD CAMCORDER GARMIN ASTRO GPS DOG TRACKING SYSTEM HP IQ770 TOUCHSMART PC 1 CANON DC50 DVD CAMCORDER, $1,000, AVAILABLE LATE FEBRUARY. With a 5.39-megapixel CCD image sensor and a 10x optical zoom lens, the D50 will be Canon'…

Bowman - Remaining warehouse apartments released salelife

2007-01-20

Beatty Street addresses surge in value between pre-construction release and today Chantal Eustace Sun Photograph by : Ian Lindsay If the walls of the bowman block could talk, they would have a century of stories to spill, with the latest ch…

It's hard to pin down what's fuelling the boom

2007-01-20

Bob Ransford Sun This is typically a slow season for real estate sales, with most consumers trying to catch up on credit card accounts from a month or two of shopping sprees. January real estate numbers could buck the normal trend, however,…

Home prices should keep rising . . .

2007-01-19

Strong economy, low interest rates, demand will keep driving up costs Jim Jamieson Province The B.C. real-estate market is taking a breather, but the same fundamentals that stoked value in 2006 will continue to drive it this year, developer…

Home prices should keep rising even after they climbed 18% in 2006

2007-01-19

Total sales hit $37.8b Ashley Ford Province Last year was a very good year -- but not quite a vintage one -- in the value of B.C. home sales. The B.C. Real Estate Association said yesterday that 2006 sales on the Multiple Listing Service re…

10 great places to let the others go downhill

2007-01-19

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2006 BC MLS® Sales Second Highest On Record

2007-01-18

Sun British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) figures indicate the residential sales volume on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in BC reached $37.8 billion in 2006, up 7 per cent from 2005. MLS® home sales declined 9 …

The secrets of a salsa queen

2007-01-18

Mark Laba Province Brenda Cortez puts together tacos at Dona Cata Mexican Food. The restaurant is named after Brenda's grandmother and uses her recipes. Photograph by : Gerry Kahrmann, The Province DONA CATA MEXICAN FOODS Where: 5438 Victor…

5 great classic spaghetti joints

2007-01-18

Mark Laba Province 1. Nick's Spaghetti House: It doesn't get more classic than this with decor still in place from 1956. 631 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, 604-254-5633 2. Rosa's Cucina Italiana: Rosa Gabriella cooked for 21 years at Nick's Spa…

Getting a fresh start in the restaurant game

2007-01-18

La Buca opened in the chill of December and promptly had to shut down for repairs -- but a sneak preview showed good times ahead Mia Stainsby Sun Anyone who's watched Opening Soon on Food Network understands the perversity of opening a rest…

Culinary school offers daily entrees for around $5.25 and a gorgeous array of pastries

2007-01-18

Great food, student prices Mia Stainsby Sun Left to right: Chad Bibby, Shannon Smith and Alvaro Lobom show off some of the tempting pastries they make at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, which wouldn't be out of place in a French bak…

Housing starts up 4.5% in December, but 2006 building tumbles

2007-01-18

USA Today WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The pace of home construction climbed 4.5% in December, a second-straight monthly increase that ran contrary to analyst expectations, but for all of 2006 the rate of home building posted the biggest de…

Wanted: A fair shake on property taxes

2007-01-17

Ed Des Roches, Special to the Sun Sun Cities and towns throughout British Columbia are in the process of setting their municipal budgets for 2007. It's the annual balancing act, weighing potential revenue against a growing demand for munici…

Skype Founders bring free TV to Net

2007-01-17

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Google - How to get Google to notice you

2007-01-17

Jefferson Graham USA Today LOS ANGELES — Yaffa Balsam was mystified. Why did so many other family therapy websites pop to the top of Google search results listings, while her site was nowhere to be found? It's a question posed by thou…

Residents enjoy bargain tax rate

2007-01-13

'We are paying for all the services we consume plus half of the residential,' businessman complains Frances Bula Sun Vancouver residents only pay 56 cents for every dollar in services they get, while businesses pay $2.42 for the equivalent.…

Court ruling threatens to cost B.C. a bundle

2007-01-13

Tab for return of proceeds of unlawful taxation pegged at $1 billion-plus Michael Kane Sun British Columbia taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $1 billion as the result of a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that governments must retu…

Parking tax battle on again

2007-01-13

Businesses find appeals won last year didn't end issue Fiona Anderson Sun Peter Broerken is the controller for Locher Evers International on Annacis Island. The company is appealing the parking tax. Photograph by : Ward Perrin, Vancouver Su…

Minister ups homeowner grant threshold

2007-01-13

Increase to $950,000 restores tax break for many Derrick Penner Sun Finance Minister Carole Taylor raised the threshold for provincial homeowners grants to $950,000 on Friday, restoring the tax break to almost 33,000 households at risk of l…

Townhouses a first for British Properties

2007-01-13

75-year detached-home tradition set aside in pursuit of monied buyers who want carefree residency Chantal Eustace Sun There goes the neighbourhood! For the first time ever, attached homes will be constructed in the high-end British Properti…

'Living buildings' raise sustainability bar

2007-01-13

Kim Davis Sun To Jason McLennan, the chief executive officer of the two-country Cascadia Green Building Council, and Robert Berkebile, a pioneering advocate of sustainable architecture and construction, flowers offer compelling models and m…

'House millionaires' and the homeowner grant

2007-01-12

Joan Bowles Sun Dear new "house millionaires": Congratulations, you are now eligible to receive little or nothing of the homeowner grant. Never fear, if you are 65 or older you may defer your property taxes. Which means that, after being th…

Residential buyers keep pressure on office space

2007-01-12

Downtown developers continue to focus on condo market Derrick Penner Sun If the slowing U.S. housing markets spills over to Vancouver in the form of fewer American buyers for downtown condos, that could be still be a good thing. Developers …

Rising property values means we have extra money we could invest or squander

2007-01-12

Taking advantage of our new-found wealth Fiona Anderson Sun Jumping property values! British Columbia has done it again with homeowners being 23 per cent richer on average than they were a year ago. So what can we do, and what shouldn't we …