Vancouver Real Estate November 17, 2018

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Vancouver realtor suspended for writing fake doctor’s note for intern

Daily HiveNov. 15, 2018
Vancouver realtor has been handed a 120-day suspension for writing a fake … A disciplinary decision from the Real Estate Council of British Columbia, …
Vancouver real estate agent who wrote fake doctor’s note disciplined
Local SourceCityNews VancouverNov. 15, 2018

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Canadian Real Estate Sales Drop 3%, Vancouver Over 10x Worse

Better DwellingNov. 16, 2018
Canadian real estate sales continue its slide lower. Canada Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show sales fell across the country in October. The trend of …
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Chinese inquiries up for Calgary’s residential real estate

Calgary HeraldNov. 16, 2018
Law says Ontario and British Columbia taxes on foreign real estate buyers have also served to divert interest from Toronto and Vancouver toward Calgary.
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Detached real estate sales in Vancouver fell over 34% in October

Daily HiveNov. 14, 2018
Home sale activity across Metro Vancouver remained below long-term historical averages in October, according to the latest figures.
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REAL SCOOP: Wolf Pack launderer gets 2 years in US jail

Vancouver Sun (blog)Nov. 16, 2018
Omid Mashinchi, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a major VancouverPolice trafficking investigation in August, has now been sentenced to two years in …
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Vancouver Condos Boom, Toronto Suburbs Swoon In ‘Fickle’ Housing …

HuffPost CanadaNov. 10, 2018
While Vancouver’s housing market went into serious slowdown mode over the … That makes downtown Vancouver the most expensive real estate market in …
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City of Vancouver’s housing CEO takes job with city-contracted …

Vancouver Is AwesomeNov. 14, 2018
His departure follows that of Vancouver’s head of real estate services Bill Aujla for Aquilini Development, which sparked much controversy in July, prompting …
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Real Estate Market Report: October 2018

Nanaimo News NOW (press release)Nov. 16, 2018
NANAIMO — Fall is fully in swing and despite what’s happening in the Vancouvermarket with news about price corrections, Nanaimo’s real estate market is …

Caution rising but capital keeps flowing into Vancouver market

Business in VancouverNov. 14, 2018
Toronto tops Vancouver as the No. 1 market in Canada for real estate in the 2019 edition of the report. Strong momentum in the office and industrial sector, …
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Vancouver Detached Real Estate Sales Fall Over 32%, Price Declines …

Better DwellingNov. 13, 2018
Thinking of selling detached Vancouver real estate? It might be a little rough right now. Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) numbers show sales …
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Subprime lending — as well as the risk that comes with it — is growing …

Toronto StarNov. 14, 2018
… the risk that comes with it — is growing in Canada’s hottest realestate markets … a family living in the four-bedroom home on Russet Way in West Vancouver.
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This Week’s Top Stories: The Cost of Borrowing For Real Estate Is …

Better DwellingNov. 11, 2018
Greater Vancouver real estate prices are decelerating, while inventory pops to new highs. The price of a typical home cost $1,062,100 in October, up just 1% …

Oxford academic’s research suggests Vancouver’s foreign-buyers tax …

The Globe and MailNov. 15, 2018
Derek Wilson left Vancouver a couple of years ago and moved to London … A recent report on luxury property prices by global real estate agency Knight Frank …

Real estate app forces realtors to bid for business

CTV NewsNov. 12, 2018
Nobul claims its site and app have been used in Vancouver but couldn’t say if a … Despite claims of upending the real estate market, local realtors say they’re …

Chinese buyer interest in Metro Vancouver’s homes reaches 2-year …

Daily HiveNov. 12, 2018
There appears to be a resurgence in Mainland Chinese interest in buying real estatein Vancouver, almost exactly two years after the BC provincial government …

Province promises 4900 affordable rental homes across BC

CTV NewsNov. 13, 2018
More real estate headlines, photo galleries and video … Vancouver’s downtown core is seen in an image taken from Chopper 9 by CTV Vancouver’s Pete Cline …

Caution rising but real estate investment capital keeps flowing into …

Vancouver CourierNov. 14, 2018
CBRE Ltd. indicated that 2018 investment deals in Vancouver could exceed last … the Vancouver Real Estate Strategy and Leasing Conference on November 1.

Want to buy your first home? Move to Kamloops or Prince George

Vernon Morning StarNov. 14, 2018
The Vancouver real estate market takes the obvious spot at the other end of the spectrum, holding top spot for the least affordable city in B.C. There, local …

Vancouver Real Estate is Not Immune from the Effects of Rising …

Point2 Homes (blog)Nov. 13, 2018
A recent increase in interest rates by the Bank of Canada may not bode well for the Vancouver real estate market, especially for those who want to enter the …

October home sales down 1.6 per cent compared with September …

CTV NewsNov. 15, 2018
The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales across the country … cent as lower sales in the Vancouver region and the B.C. Fraser Valley more than …
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Commercial real estate investment slows slightly after record-making …

Vancouver CourierNov. 15, 2018
A new report by real estate data analysts’ Altus Group shows Vancouvercommercial and land investment hit $14.5 billion last year – the highest annual …
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Canadian Real Estate Developers Are Ramping Up Mainland …

Better DwellingNov. 14, 2018
Canadian real estate developers facing soft domestic demand are looking to … This comes as foreign buyer taxes have hit both Toronto and Vancouver, and …
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Canada’s housing market shows increasing signs of soft landing

BNNBloomberg.caNov. 15, 2018
… a boom that saw values more than double in Toronto and Vancouver since 2009. … the Canadian Real Estate Association and from the Teranet land registry.

Real Estate Match-Making Platform Mortgage Sandbox Opens for Beta …

Canada NewsWire (press release)Nov. 12, 2018
VANCOUVER, Nov. 12, 2018 /CNW/ – Mortgage Sandbox, a Canadian Real Estate Match-Making Platform, announced the launch of beta testing in the …
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Teranet: Canadian Real Estate Prices Made An Unusual Drop In …

Better DwellingNov. 15, 2018
Canadian real estate prices just printed an unusual month. ….. Vancouver realestate prices made the largest monthly decline of the major markets. Prices fell …
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Vancouver real estate offices collect winter items for youths

The ColumbianNov. 14, 2018
Clark County: The donation van was filled twice by employees and clients of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate’s Vancouver offices.
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Arthur Erickson’s ‘most complete’ masterpiece listed for $16.8M …

Vancouver Is AwesomeNov. 16, 2018
… commissioned an Erickson house, named Eppich House 1, also in West Vancouver. … In all my years of selling real estate, I’ve never seen anything like it.”.
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Suddenly, a pair of quiet real estate markets are white-hot

Vancouver SunNov. 14, 2018
Online searches for homes in the Long Island City — long an industrial area in the Queens borough of New York — soared 248 per cent last week, real estate …
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Stagers, renovators and drones: Not everyone loses in a down …

North Shore NewsNov. 15, 2018
TORONTO — Real estate markets across the country may be showing signs of … like Toronto and Vancouver is starting to attribute to lower national home sales.
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Uptick in Vancouver Island home sales bucks trend, as Metro …

My Comox Valley NowNov. 13, 2018
VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. – The real estate slump in Metro Vancouver hasn’t made its way across the Strait of Georgia. While housing sales in the Vancouver …
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Worst timing in Vancouver history for ‘vacancy controls’

Real Estate News EXchangeNov. 13, 2018
GUEST COLUMN: Rent controls already force Vancouver landlords to follow strict rules, but this is not enough for some tenant advocacy groups pushing a …
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Condo builders push to meet a luxury shortage

The Globe and MailNov. 15, 2018
In Vancouver, that number hit 811, up 6 per cent from 2017. … recent project for these buyers: Yorkville Private Estates at Cumberland Street and Avenue Road.
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Vancouver rental prices increasing by less than inflation …

Vancouver CourierNov. 15, 2018
Despite the fact that recently announced, stringent rent-hike caps are not yet in force, average rental prices in Vancouver have increased by less than inflation …

Opinions split on future of booming co-working model

Real Estate News EXchangeNov. 15, 2018
Moore, a tenant-focused leasing advisor with Cresa, joined a panel to discuss the future of the Vancouver office market at the Vancouver Real Estate Strategy …

PETER DOLEZAL: Canada’s real estate engine – signs of sputtering?

Sooke News MirrorNov. 12, 2018
It is not a broadly known fact that Canada’s Real Estate Sector, currently … policies, particularly to larger metropolitan areas of Greater Toronto and Vancouver, …

Toronto Detached Real Estate Sales Rise, But Still Below The 10 Year …

Better DwellingNov. 13, 2018
Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show detached sales improved in ….. Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) numbers showed slowing …

Real Canadian Mortgage Credit Growth Is Pointing To An Early 80s …

Better DwellingNov. 12, 2018
Canadian mortgage credit growth is falling, but how bad is it in real terms? …… Greater Vancouver real estate prices are decelerating, while inventory pops to …

Real estate sales forecast slow across Okanagan

Vernon Morning StarNov. 14, 2018
Don’t expect a real estate boom in 2019 and 2020, says a CMHC report. … impacted Kelowna, Victoria, Nanaimo and other Vancouver Island markets.

Allied adds to downtown Vancouver office holdings

Real Estate News EXchangeNov. 13, 2018
Allied Properties REIT (AP-UN-T) is increasing its presence in Vancouver, acquiring two downtown office buildings. The trust paid $57.5 million for the two …

Canadians appear to have dodged that housing crash everybody’s …

Vancouver SunNov. 16, 2018
… a boom that saw values more than double in Toronto and Vancouver since 2009. … the Canadian Real Estate Association and from the Teranet land registry.
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BC’s Most Powerful Real Estate Lobbyists are Trying to Stop Electoral …

PressProgressNov. 15, 2018
British Columbia’s most powerful real estate lobby group is desperately trying … from a 15-storey apartment building in Vancouver, recently claimed proportional …
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Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart shows signs of forming unholy …

Straight.comNov. 16, 2018
The mayor who appeared most supportive of McCallum was Vancouver’s …. town centres, McCallum will trigger a realestate rush along the Fraser Highway.
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Happy birthday, ‘Car-Strangled Spanner’! Vancouver’s Lions Gate …

CBC.caNov. 12, 2018
Foreign real estate investment, land speculation, traffic congestion and environmentalism — it’s hard to find a structure whose history epitomizes Vancouver …
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Daphne Bramham: Beedie gets his birthday wish by giving a $50 …

Vancouver SunNov. 14, 2018
Philanthropist and realestate developer Ryan Beedie believes it’s never too … Only 50 students from Metro Vancouver will be chosen in May 2019 based on …
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City of Vancouver should make cohousing projects easier to be built …

Vancouver CourierNov. 13, 2018
If Vancouver’s new city council is serious about supporting measures to help house … “There’s very little traction when it comes to real projects getting to be more …
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BCLC approves Cascades Casino for Delta

Business in VancouverNov. 14, 2018
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has approved a new gambling and entertainment facility in the City of Delta. Cascades Casino Delta, operated …

Detailed election results show Vancouver’s north-south political divide

Vancouver SunNov. 12, 2018
While people have long discussed Vancouver’s east-west divide, data from last … work for clients including municipal governments and real estate companies.
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Brexit turmoil sends pound, European stocks tumbling

Vancouver SunNov. 15, 2018
The S&P 500 Index declined early Thursday, led by consumer and real estateshares, as J.C. Penney and Dillard’s posted disappointing numbers. Real estate …
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Come one, come all to Bacio Rosso’s circus gourmet in Vancouver

The Globe and MailNov. 14, 2018
Set under a gilded tent in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park until the end of … She started off with a clunker of a joke about Vancouver real estate prices, which …
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Realtors looking to collect clothing for more than 30000 people

Delta-OptimistNov. 12, 2018
“A recent homeless count in Metro Vancouver indicates there are more people living in shelters or on the streets than ever before,” said Real Estate Board of …