Vancouver Real Estate News
Moving Guide #6 - Dealing with Professionals
After a short while, we can prudly present a new part of our Moving Guide. We helped you to decide wheter move with professionals or using selfhelp. In the last part, we prepared a DIY checklist; in the sixth part, titled How to Choose and Oversee the Work of Professionals, we will help you in the opposite situation.
Professionals can save you a lot of stress, however, your attention will be still inevitable!
Post–Olympic Times Ahead
Gold Medal by Mission Canada
The biggest party of last decades is over. The torch is extinguished, gold medals are counted (and we can say 14 gold medals were a huge success for Canadian sport) and visitors have been leaving. Are we about to expect an Olympic hangover in BC?
I don't believe so. Despite all the bad circumstances (accidental death just before the start, worst weather conditions in years), the Games were well organized and presented our country in a very pleasant light. Thousands of visitors were surprised by the beauties of Canada, and especially by the British Columbia.
(Post–Olympic Times Ahead continued...)Moving guide #5 - Do It Yourself
Are you about to move? Decided to move on your own finally? In this case, do not miss the fifth part of our Moving Guide. It offers hints how to schedule the process, how to employ your family, or how to manage the overall stress.
Read more about Moving - Do It Yourself
Game On for Whistler Sale
Whistler Mountains
by Scott Hughes
If you are going to schedule a foreclosure sale you might as well do it when the world is on your doorstep - as Whistler is soon to find out.
Three weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, lenders announced they had seized the assets of Vancouver-based Intrawest ULC, which operates the Whistler mountain ski resort that is hosting a majority of the key alpine events.
(Game On for Whistler Sale continued...)Winning the Real Estate Olympics
Although Vancouver-area hotels have been fully booked for months by visitors drawn to the Olympic spectacle, property owners hoping to cash in on the event are having mixed success.
(Winning the Real Estate Olympics continued...)Star Rating for Vancouver
Best known as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on hit television series "The X-Files," actress Gillian Anderson has admitted she is a confirmed Vancouverite who adores the city.
(Star Rating for Vancouver continued...)Metro Vancouver is ‘Investor’s Heaven’
During the past decade the Metro Vancouver property market has weathered market storms and prospered in the face of global recession. Today it is a peak performer, according to new figures released by Landcor Data Corporation.
(Metro Vancouver is 'Investor's Heaven' continued...)Bubble or Babble?
Price tags on homes in Canada jumped 19 per cent in December from a year earlier and housing prices are on pace to climb another 5.4 per cent to a new all-time record this year, according to the latest figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association.
(Bubble or Babble? continued...)Olympics Polarise Opinion
With the Winter Olympics truly centre stage for the coming weeks supporters and opponents are fiercely contesting their own slanging match.
(Olympics Polarise Opinion continued...)Housing supply and demand reach closer alignment in January
Diverse selection and favourable interest rates continue to drive demand in the Greater Vancouver housing market.
Residential property sales in Greater Vancouver totaled 1,923 in January 2010, an increase of 152.4% from the 762 sales recorded in January 2009 and an 23.5% decline compared to December 2009 when 2,515 sales were recorded.
(Housing supply and demand reach closer alignment in January continued...)Olympic Resort Owner Sells to Secure
Intrawest ULC, the debt-laden owner of key Olympic site Whistler-Blackcomb, is selling off more properties in order to focus on its bigger venues in Canada.
(Olympic Resort Owner Sells to Secure continued...)Moving guide #4 - Moving and Insurance
Another part of our moving guide is ready. This time about moving and insurance. Why you may need insurance, while moving your home? What kinds of insurance are offered?
If you want to know more, read our latest addition to the Vancouver Moving Guide serie called Moving and Insurance.
Chinese-Style Vancouver - ‘the best’
Vancouver serves up the finest Chinese cuisine in the world claims one seasoned gourmet writer.
(Chinese-Style Vancouver - 'the best' continued...)Sniffing Out Trouble At Olympics
Sniffer dogs specially trained to find explosives have been brought in as part of counter-terrorism measures at Vancouver’s Winter Olympics.
(Sniffing Out Trouble At Olympics continued...)Illegal Tree-Fellers Twigged by Google
Two women and a tree-cutter have been charged with illegally chopping down trees at a Vancouver home under an old city bylaw.
(Illegal Tree-Fellers Twigged by Google continued...)