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Housing Market Slows as Sales Slip
Potential homebuyers are becoming worn down by rising fuel and food prices, wary about economic uncertainty, and less flush with equity to take on sec...
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politix_pete |
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Upping our Assets While Upping Our Debt
The dream of home ownership is a reality for more Canadians than in a generation, but so is the increasingly sober reality of soaring debt levels.
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cosmo_girl |
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Gassy Jack
Gassy Jack by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP Gassy Jack and Other Tales available fr...
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jumpfilm |
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Upcoming Events in Vancouver
The federal election will be over but the municipal election will be in full swing. ThinkCity has two events this month for voters in Vancouver - so I...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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'Simple' solution to housing squeeze
Realtor urges more density in exchange for extra units sold at lower profit (at least someone is starting to figure it out)
Bob Rennie, one of Vanc...
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MintyPop |
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Bye Bye Dragonboat?
Development in the eastern and northern shores of False Creek threatens the future of the Dragonboat Festival in Vancouver....
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Camila |
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BC Housing Prices Set to Drop Dramatically
From CTVbc.ca --
Experts with the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia predict home values are about to plunge.
A ...
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VanRW |
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Partially Blind Home-Hunter Dogged by Discrimination
When Kim Hood left 100 Mile House for the Lower Mainland to help her aging parents, she didn't expect it to be easy. But neither did she expect she mi...
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cosmo_girl |
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Vancouver’s Welfare State
This week the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released an illuminating and controversial report on the state of welfare recipients in B...
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Ariel |
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Build houses we can afford (for the love of God!)
Will some one please tell me just who it is that is buying all of the new condos going up and where they work? For the rest of us there are fewer and...
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MintyPop |
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Malls needn't wait for failure, to Re-Urbanize
One of Vancouver's most recent significant planning exercises is noteworthy not simply because of the merits of its process or its resulting planning ...
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Homeless Folks Hit with Hefty Fines
With over 40,000 reported instances of people being turned away from full-capacity shelters in the Metro Vancouver region over the past year, the city...
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politix_pete |
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The struggle...rrr...saga continues for Woodwards and the Downtown Eastside
The old Woodward s building in the 100 block of West Hastings Street is being redeveloped in order to house Simon Fraser University s School...
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doneen |
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Metro Vancouver Sustainability Summit
Metro Vancouver at the Pan Pacific Hotel Tuesday 7 October 2008I had hoped to live blog this event, but the extortionate rate charged by the hotel...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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CIBC: Canadian housing market predictions
The CIBC economic forecasting dartboard hasn't been remarkably accurate lately, so I'm not sure how to take this most recent prediction from Benjamin ...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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BC Housing Market Swings Back Towards the Buyer
From CTVbc.ca --
It's officially a buyers market in the British Columbia's Lower Mainland, and house hunters can once again afford to be choosy ...
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Canadian_Revolution |
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Group begins vigil today
What is the #1 issue for Vancouver voters? Homelessness and affordable housing. In the 2 hour leaders debate? Nothing.So Citywide Housing Coalition (C...
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I bought a house at exactly the wrong time
Miro CernetigWell it is not often that you see an opinion column with a heading that directly repeats your own experience.I too bought a house just be...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Vancouver is HOT Says Urban Designers
Viewed from the United States, Vancouver is super hot, it's almost overheating. American cities have failed to stem the flight to the suburbs and th...
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doneen |
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Did Libs Shush Their Scientist? (in Views)
Big real estate projects threaten Mission habitat. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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Small is beautiful
Witold Rybczynski makes the case for smaller homes:Smaller houses on smaller lots are the logical solution to the problem of affordability, yet densit...
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Price Tags |
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West-Enders Tighten Their Grip on Affordable Housing
Representatives from the City of Vancouver gathered to discuss proposed density plans for Vancouver's West End during a town hall meeting hosted by ...
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Urban_Cowgirl |
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Scary or Sanctuary? Inside a real transition house
The scariest part of having a transition home in your community may be the existing stigma and misunderstanding already existing in the neighborhood....
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Ami |
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Lower mainland home prices drop below 2007 levels
exx just posted this link, looks like its worth its own post. The Vancouver sun is reporting that the house price drop in September was big enough t...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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House prices drop below 2007 levels
exx just posted this link, looks like its worth its own post. The Vancouver sun is reporting that the house price drop in September was big enough t...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Old Stuff - Mossback's Seattle
Knute Berger, a regular writer in Seattle's online e-mag Crosscut (The Tyee of the Evergreen City), has penned a reflection on his city that could as ...
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Price Tags |
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Merrill Lynch warns of Canadian housing crash
Realbiz pointed out this story in the Globe and Mail this morning: A recent report from Merrill Lynch Canada is warning of a Canadian housing market c...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Townhouse evictions highlight city-wide fears
Globe and MailRegion wide fears I would have thought. This has been happening in Richmond for quite a while now. On Gilbert Road opposite Minoru Park,...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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New Stuff 5 - Downtown East Side / Gastown
So much happening, it's hard to keep up. Here are a few samples.The curtain has been drawn to reveal the upgraded Portland Hotel:And just down Hasti...
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Price Tags |
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A federal election campaign about nothing
What an odd federal election campaign. We've had naked pictures of a Conservative candidate, a couple of New Democrats and another Tory dumped for dru...
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Paying attention |
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Economy the key issue in this election?
For the first time in a long time it looks like the economy may be the top issue in this election. With big price increases in food and fuel, house ...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Long-ago tax return proves a dollar really does bu
Long-ago tax return proves a dollar really does buy less nowSept. 19, 2008I've recently been reunited with my hope chest from a long-past marria...
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A Closer Look |
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A Survey of Surrey
The City Program was asked to submit a paper for the Surrey Economic Summit.The development of a post-war urban region at a time of changing assumptio...
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SFU City |
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A Survey of Surrey
Here's the paper I wrote for the Surrey Economic Summit (at which Rudy Giuliani, oddly enough, got all the press):The development of a post-war urban ...
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Price Tags |
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'Surprise' surplus sign of bad budgeting
Surprise. Three months into the fiscal year and the provincial government has discovered that it underestimated revenues by about $1.2 billion. Well, ...
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Paying attention |
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Canadian housing boom ‘definately over'
Thats according to UBC Sauder School of Business professor Tsur Somerville. Its not just the Vancouver housing market that's taking a dive - all acr...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Canadian housing boom ‘definitely over'
Thats according to UBC Sauder School of Business professor Tsur Somerville. Its not just the Vancouver housing market that's taking a dive - all acr...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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WERA Director John Whistler's presentation to Vancouver City Council
West End Residents Association (WERA) delivers Burrard Bridge Petition at Capital Plan Public Hearing.On September 15, 2008 Director John Whistler spo...
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Paradise Makers - the Chuck Davis report
Vancouver historian Chuck Davis attended that last Paradise Makers - the SFU City Program interview series with decision-makers from the past - ...
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SFU City |
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“A Pivotal Year”
Vancouver historian Chuck Davis attended that last Paradise Makers - the SFU City Program interview series with decision-makers from the past - ...
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Price Tags |
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Turmoil is the new normal
Wow. What a weekend in the financial markets! Lehman Brothers has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, an emergency trading session was opened on Sunday...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Friends-with-benefits as condo ownership model
Vancouver housing is overpriced. That's the word from UBC's Tsur Somerville in a new report so shocking to the local media they don't know what to do...
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Housing Forum in the West End
WERA Director Aaron Jasper will participate in a Housing forum at the Coast Plaza Hotel on Wednesday Sept 10 at 7pm 9pm....
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US Gov takes over Fanny & Freddy
The two largest mortgage finance companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been taken over by the US government in an effort to become the ...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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Paradise Makers : The Politicians - Vancouver
SFU City Programme Paradise Makers September 5, 2008This evening's lecture was actually more of a interview with four of the TEAM Vancouver ...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Killer bear mauls Vancouver housing market
So much for a softening market Vancouver real estate is into full-fledged bear mode. The latest numbers from the industry tell it all. In ...
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condohype |
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Should I buy or should I rent?
The Labour Day weekend saw the Vancouver Sun attempt to redeem itself with articles admitting not all is well in the world of Vancouver real estate. ...
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condohype |
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‘Conservative' Alberta is wildly outspending everbody else
Scott Hennig Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.So he gets a big slab of space in the vancouver Sun to belat on about the province'...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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New Toronto tax on cars, motorbikes rolls out
Globe and MailAs of today, a new city tax takes effect for Toronto residents who own or lease a car or motorbike.The charge of $60 a year for a car an...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Michael Geller, New Blood for NPA? (in News)
Vancouver's reigning party stumbled, says developer who seeks one of its council slots. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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