OTTAWA - July 30, 2010 - The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) revised its forecast downward for home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations, and elevated its average price forecast.
Weaker than anticipated sales activity during the crucial spring home buying season in Canada's four most active provincial market ...
BC Home Sales to Rise in
2011
BCREA Housing Forecast Update - Third Quarter 2010
Vancouver, BC - July 30, 2010. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its Housing Forecast Update for the third quarter of 2010 today.
BC Multiple Listing
Service® (MLS®) residential sales are forecast to decline 7
per cent from 85,028 units in 2009 to 79,500 units this year,
before inc ...
At today's low interest rates -- even with this week's rate hike --
monthly mortgage payments may feel more manageable than a
generation ago when interest rates were heading toward 20%. Despite
these low rates, it can still be rather sobering to work out
exactly how much interest ...
VANCOUVER - With mortgage rates low and more likely to go up than down, some borrowers may want to think long and hard about whether they want a long and hard - fixed, that is - mortgage rate.
The first question is whether to go fixed or variable when borrowing to buy a home. Statistics show that 88 per cent ...
Metro Vancouver developers may have got ahead of themselves with the number of housing projects they are pushing into the pre-sale marketing phase, says a local market research firm.
MPC Intelligence Inc. counted 6,659 units put into the marketing phase between March 1 and July 1, which approaches numbers thrown onto the market during ...
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With the uncertainty of the economy, many people are looking for ways to cut back. When it comes to selling their home, homeowners often don't want to put much money into getting it ready for the sale. While that's certainly understandable, properly preparing a home be ... |
(Surrey, BC) - Sales processed on the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board's Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) increased by 23 per cent in one month going from 1,477 sales in May to 1,815 in June. June's numbers represent an 8 per cent decrease compared to the 1,982 sales during the same month last year.
Deanna Horn, president of the Board, says, " ...