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Bubble? What Bubble?
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Remember all that talk about how Canadian Banks were the envy of the world? Well it turns out to be maybe not so true, at least according to a ranking by The Banker magazine. No Canadian bank made it into the top 30 banks in the world in terms of...
aggregated: 2 days 3 hours ago | 10 views
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Regular readers will recognize the name Paul Boenisch as the North Vancouver realtor who provided daily market stats on his blog. As many of you know, Paul and his family moved to to the other coast recently, and he now has a new blog focusing on t...
aggregated: 3 days 22 hours ago | 3 views
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Little posted a link to this Province newspaper story over the weekend. Subcontractors at the Vancouver Olympic Village are accused of taking shortcuts in its construction, including not insulating all in wall pipes. This brings a risk of mould pro...
aggregated: 5 days 5 hours ago | 5 views
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Juraj sent in this link to a suprisingly negative travel review of Vancouver by a Frommers travel guide writer. I m just going to quote the whole paragraph so that no one can accuse me of taking parts out of context and making it appear worse than ...
aggregated: 1 week 3 days ago | 9 views
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Pani sent in the link to this article at the Wall Street Journal blogs about a recent study claiming that not only are renters happier than owners, they re also less fat.The average homeowner, however, consistently derives more pain (but no more joy)...
aggregated: 1 week 3 days ago | 12 views
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From the boom/bust irony department: It appears that the slow down in hectic condo construction means less money to fund the leaky condo repair loan program from the Homeowner Protection Office. It s apparently gotten so bad that the HPO is no long...
aggregated: 1 week 5 days ago | 25 views
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I d like to get a jump-start on the weekend.. Any objections? Ok Then, lets kick off the open topic discussion a little early this week. Thanks to everyone who s posted links here, I d thank you all individually, but that would take extra time, e...
aggregated: 2 weeks 1 day ago | 8 views
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Here s a fascinating bit of info for those of you that have been surprised by the spring bounce in the Vancouver real estate market. The Province is reporting that house prices in Vancouver have jumped an astounding 16% since last May!..Or at least...
aggregated: 2 weeks 3 days ago | 33 views
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The recent court ruling that enforces Jameson House presales agreements, despite a delayed completion date of May 2011 has some buyers angry and looking to launch an appeal: It was called a fairness hearing and I found it to be extremely unfair, sai...
aggregated: 2 weeks 4 days ago | 15 views
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Rising bond yields have pushed TD to raise some medium and long term mortage rates with more increases forecast:Soaring bond yields have set the stage for a second round of interest rate hikes on residential mortgages in about a week.After nudging ra...
aggregated: 3 weeks 3 days ago | 54 views
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