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Living's easy in central Brentwood

August 31st, 2009
 

New Memento development offers affordable homeas in a great aslocation

 
 
 

Memento's great location provides easy access to SkyTrain, the Lougheed Highway, TransCanada Highway, Brentwood Mall and local schools.
 

Memento's great location provides easy access to SkyTrain, the Lougheed Highway, TransCanada Highway, Brentwood Mall and local schools.

Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, The Province, The Province

When sales of the master-planned Brentwood Gate community outpac ...

Future homebuyers will pay significantly more tax under HST

August 31st, 2009
 

Four levels of government have their hand in the buyer's wallet and the take is going to get larger next year unless something is done

 
 
 

French economist Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) opined that "the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of his ...

High hopes for B.C. housing market upswing in 2010

August 28th, 2009
 

Uptick in sales is 'brightest light' in otherwise dismal economic picture

 
 
 

A better housing sales season is a bright spot in a gloomy economy, says the B.C. Real Estate Association's forecast for 2010.
 

A better housing sales season is a bright spot in a gloomy economy, says the B.C. Real Estate Association's forecast for 2010.

Photograph by: Ric Ernst file, The Province

The B.C. Real Estate Association is forecasting a better sales season this fall than las ...

B.C. real estate sales should continue to rise: economist

August 28th, 2009
 

Prices will remain below 2008 levels before edging up in 2010

 
 

Spurred by record-low mortgage rates, provincial real estate sales should continue to rise through the remainder of 2009 from last year's market fall, according to the B.C. Real Estate Association's latest forecast.

Home sales have doubled since January's near collaps ...

Worst of housing downturn behind us: National Bank

August 28th, 2009
 

Metro Vancouver saw house prices tick higher in June after 11 straight months of decline on one bank's index measure of property values.

With three other major cities on the index measure also showing price recovery, the National Bank of Canada is suggesting "[the] worst of home price deflation in Ca ...

BC Home Sales Brightest Light in Economy

August 27th, 2009

 
BCREA Forecast Update - Third Quarter 2009

Vancouver, BC – August 27, 2009. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its Forecast Update for the third quarter of 2009 today.

BC Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales are forecast to climb 15 per cent from 68,923 units in 2008 to 79,400 units this year, just below the ten-year average of 82,800 units. Resident ...

New Site For Consumers and REALTORS® to Voice Concern About HST

August 25th, 2009

 

Vancouver, BC – August 24, 2009. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) today launched a new section of its website to provide the public and REALTORS® with information about the impact of the proposed Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and an opportunity to voice their concerns about the tax. This new resource, which can be found at www.bcrea.bc.ca/hst/hstaction.htm, encourages conce ...

Latest condos offer stunning design

August 24th, 2009
 

gateway north shore: Reclaimed Stanley Park trees used in ceiling

 
 
 

The kitchen features glossy two-tone cabinets in white and charcoal at the Gateway North Shore condo development, opposite Capilano Mall in North Vancouver.
 

The kitchen features glossy two-tone cabinets in white and charcoal at the Gateway North Shore condo development, opposite Capilano Mall in North Vancouver.

Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost, The Province, The Province

There's little doubt that the pièce de résis ...

Fairmont hotels get into green programs

August 24th, 2009
 

The Waterfront, among other hotels in the chain, is into beekeeping in a big way and is earning a sweet reward for its efforts

 
 
 

Like a passionate wine maker describing the bouquet of his latest cabernet, Graeme Evans of the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel enjoys talking about the sweet elixir his hotel's resident bees are producing.

"R ...

Condos with windows on four sides

August 24th, 2009
 

The Kettle Creek development near Victoria features detached homes at relatively low prices

 
 
 

KETTLE CREEK STATION

Project location: Langford

Project size: 49 homes now selling, up to 600 eventually

Telephone: 250-391-5880

E-mail: info@kettlecreekstation.com

Web: kettlecreekstation.com

Developer: Turner Lane Development Corp ...

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