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  1. Vancouver developer hikes fee for re-assigning a pre-sale condo in effort to dampen speculation

    Pre-sale condos now harder to flip Joanne Lee-Young The Vancouver Sun Condo sales and prices are on fire. And now, developers of a prominent condo project in Vancouver’s West End, which won’t be completed until 2019, are hiking the fee they charge for letting a pre-sale buyer of a unit re-assign (sell) their contract to […]

  2. Toronto home prices rebound, but sales still slump in September

    The average sale price of a home climbed almost 6% from August, but sales are down 35% from the year before Garry MarrThe Vancouver Sun The average sale price of a home in Toronto climbed almost six per cent from August, but sales across the region continued to sputter compared to a year ago. The […]

  3. Owners in limbo after proxies used in levy vote

    Proxies put tenants in a pickle Tony Gioventu Times Colonist Dear Tony: Our strata council has put owners in a serious conflict. The council proposed a special levy of $100,000 to remodel our lobby and the owners passed it at a special general meeting last week. No one is objecting to the price. A good […]

  4. September home sales in Vancouver up from year ago mark, board says

    REP September home sales in Vancouver were up compared with year ago, however sales fell compared with August. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says there were 2,821 homes sold in the region last month. That was up 25.2 per cent from 2,253 in September last year, but down 7.3 per cent from the […]

  5. Passive highrises at 1400 Alberni St planned for Vancouver’s West End

    Goodbye glass: New York-style condo towers proposed for Vancouver’s West End Cheryl Chan The Vancouver Sun Vancouver has been called the City of Glass for the tall, thin, glass condos that dominate the downtown landscape. But a new proposed project at 1400 Alberni Street may put Vancouver on the map as home of the world’s […]

  6. CMHC explores cutting red tape for self employed borrowers

    Joanna SmithREP The national housing agency is exploring ways to make it easier for entrepreneurs and new immigrants to buy a home by cutting some of the red tape required to prove they can afford to pay the mortgage. “Right now, under our mortgage insurance policies, you have to be able to document income to […]

  7. 1990 was the last time owning a home was this unaffordable

    Steve RandallCanadian Real Estate Wealth Owing a home continues to be elusive for many Canadians as affordability remains a major challenge. In fact, due to the heat in the Toronto and Vancouver markets in particular, you’d have to go back almost 30 years to 1990 to find a time less affordable than now according to […]

  8. Five ways to maximize your investment property

    Neil SharmaCanadian Real Estate Wealth Wasim Elafech of Century 21 Bravo Realty in Calgary is among the banner brokerage’s top sales agents in the world. Century 21 operates in 78 countries with over 100,000 agents, and Elafech managed to become their number one unit producer in 2015 and number three in Canada last year, so […]

  9. B.C. Supreme Court rejects condo-building sale attempt

    Dissenting owners convince judge that strata did not follow Bill 40 process Glen Korstrom Business in Vancouver A group of condominium owners won a huge court victory over their neighbours September 21 when BC Supreme Court Justice Warren Milman dismissed an attempt by a larger group of owners to wind up their strata corporation and […]

  10. The RE/MAX Collection 2017 Spotlight on Luxury

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