Real Estate News & Articles

Buying a home? Be cautious

2005-06-20

Weigh your cash flow and get that pre-approval Province CREDIT: Jason Payne, The Province Before you sign on the dotted line, figure out how much your new house will really cost. While all the signs point to another banner year for the Cana…

Buying & fixing up a vacation cottage

2005-06-20

Other Lower down payments, renovation loans easier than ever Many of us have fond childhood memories of dad loading up the station wagon heading out for a summer long weekend. For some the destination was a lakeside campsite, but for a luck…

Talk, text, snap and play away

2005-06-18

While prices and devices have shrunk, the technology just keeps getting bigger Gillian Shaw Sun   CREDIT: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun It's the 20th anniversary of wireless phones in Canada and Keeley Evenson, 20, a sales rep for Telus Mob…

Don't wait too long before buying your first home

2005-06-18

Peter Simpson Sun Almost daily the print media have been publishing reports about our robust housing market. And not just buried in the back with the obits and classifieds. I'm talking front page, above the fold. Reporters and editors don't…

Garage doors open up the living room at the 6 Metroliving sites

2005-06-18

Sun CREDIT: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun Above, a presentation centre model shows the front (top) and rear (bottom) views of the warehouse conversion Townline has started at 1180 Homer. Garage doors will connect some of the rear homes and their…

Zoey developer lauds PNE location for providing 'amazing views'

2005-06-18

Sun VANCOUVER SUN: Stainless and granite under her, real estate agent Teresa Pang poses in a Zoey >showhome-kitchen. Big window-and-door treatments ensure the narrow space behind her and in front of her get all the light there is to get.…

Choklit by Hillside Homes - deep, high and open

2005-06-18

Sun CREDIT: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun Writ large, like the views across False Creek, the Choklit homes are deep and high (and narrow), their expanses of concrete walls a medium for big canvases, their concrete floors relieved by steps in cle…

Satellite radio approved by CRTC

2005-06-17

But applicants say enforced Canadian content may kill their plans Jim Jamieson Province Canadians may be able to enjoy the digital delights of satellite radio as soon as this fall, thanks to a ruling yesterday by the federal broadcast regul…

Soaring property tax could chase business away

2005-06-17

Don Cayo Sun With their property tax bills up 40 to 60 per cent this year -- and in some cases on top of double-digit increases last year -- dozens of small and medium-sized businesses in the District of North Vancouver are starting to wond…

Radio Shack changes name to 'The Source'

2005-06-16

Circuit City bringing The Source to Canada Paul Marck Sun EDMONTON -- This month, Canadians may notice a new specialty electronics store in their malls as The Source by Circuit City replaces nearly 900 former RadioShack locations across the…

Video E-mail by Shaw - new service launched

2005-06-16

E-mail for folks who don't like to type Jim Jamieson Province Finally, e-mail for people who hate typing. Shaw Cablesystems has launched a new free service for its high-speed Internet customers that allows them to send a video e-mail of up …

YVR expanding international terminal to accomodate skytrain - doc.

2005-06-16

Vancouver International Airport, increasingly a gateway to Asia, expects to serve 16 million passengers this year and 21 million in 2010 Stephen Snelgrove Sun   Artist’s rendering shows what the interior of YVR’s new Link b…

World Housing Bubble - may burst sooner than later

2005-06-16

Other PERHAPS the best evidence that America 's house prices have reached dangerous levels is the fact that house-buying mania has been plastered on the front of virtually every American newspaper and magazine over the past month. Such bubb…

Housing sales continue to hit new peaks

2005-06-16

There's no sign yet of the market slowdown some experts have predicted Eric Beauchesne Sun OTTAWA -- The hot housing market -- which was supposed to cool down this year -- just keeps getting hotter, with the real-estate industry reporting t…

Million dollar homes and history clash

2005-06-15

Developer plans large houses at Celtic Shipyards site that businessman wants saved Jennifer Miller Sun VANCOUVER - Ross Judge says the Celtic Shipyards -- several warehouses on three hectares of land along the Fraser River -- are historic b…

Intel to invest $200M in Chinese tech firms

2005-06-14

Sun NEW YORK -- Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of computer chips, on Monday said it established a $200-million US venture capital fund to invest in Chinese technology companies that develop hardware, software and services. The Intel…

Building supplies peak has arrived forestry analyst says - doc.

2005-06-14

Gordon Hamilton Sun When Time magazine's cover story is on America 's obsession with real estate, that's a sure sign the peak for building supplies has arrived, according to Paul Quinn, forestry analyst at Salman Partners. "Americans are sp…

Olympic Village major changes in the works

2005-06-14

A host of major changes are in the works for the east end of False Creek where 2,200 Olympic athletes will be housed Frances Bula Sun Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the beating heart of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . Here in eas…

If you build it, it will be costly

2005-06-14

Sun The cost of new housing in B.C.'s two largest cities were up yet again in April, as the price of land, construction materials and labour continued to climb. Here are the year-over-year numbers, as well as the Canadian cities with the bi…

Economy hinges on housing market, bank says

2005-06-14

Eric Beauchesne Sun OTTAWA -- This housing boom won't go bust, as did the last one in the late 1980s, but even a slowdown will hurt the economy, CIBC World Markets warned Monday. "Never before has the housing market been so important to the…

Extreme CCTV - BC Security Camera Company - watches the world

2005-06-13

State-of-the-art cameras can see beyond the light range of the human eye Joanne Lee-Young Sun CREDIT: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun VISION TECHNOLOGY RAISES ETHICAL DEBATE ON> PRIVACY: Jack Gin, president and chief executive officer of…

Gateway program - Getting down to building it - doc.

2005-06-11

It will be the most expensive transportation project ever done in the Lower Mainland Brad Badelt Sun As far as mega-projects go, few rival the Gateway Program. With an expected price tag of nearly $3 billion -- or about $1,500 for every are…

Where the million dollar - plus homes are

2005-06-11

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When assessments go boom, some owners get hurt

2005-06-11

Skyrocketing property taxes put squeeze on longtime residents of Point Grey Road Fiona Anderson Sun CREDIT: Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun Westside realitor Spice Lucks takes in the spectacular view of English Bay from a waterfront home on P…