Christmas Puppy
The holiday season always seems to come in like a stray puppy you find wandering around the neighbourhood. Now the thought of a puppy is always well received and finding one and bringing it into your home to help it is a noble act that warms your heart. Just thinking of how good it is to help out and how much joy a cute little puppy will bring to everyone ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on December 18, 2009
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November Home Sales Continue at Torrid Pace
Vancouver, BC – December 9, 2009. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on December 9, 2009
Market Flash The Canadian Housing market and, more specifically, the Greater Vancouver Housing Market has had some significant movement in the last couple of years. You don’t have to be a savvy market analyst to see the very dramatic decline and then rise again of the value of ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on December 2, 2009
The BC Provincial government showed a card from it's hand today when they announced they will up the HST threshold on new homes from $400,000 to $525,000 today. This effectively lessons the tax burden 30% on purchaser of new homes. The tax credit jumps from $20,000 to $26,250. While the added tax relief is welcome it still falls short of what many lobby groups were demanding. There ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 20, 2009
HST is coming and, as of yet, we still don’t have a full break down of what we can expect. So far the government has been somewhat aloof with respect to filling us in. Some speculate that they are still putting it all together. Many interest groups are currently lobbying the government to allow for exceptions to the Harmonized sales tax or to exempt their products all together. ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 20, 2009
The Greater Vancouver housing market experienced a dramatic rebound this year. Residential sales increased threefold January to October on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is trending on record levels.
A marked increase in affordability during the spring induced many potential buyers into the market and the resulting momentum quickly turned a buyer’s market into a seller’s market ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 19, 2009
HST is coming and, as of yet, we still don’t have a full break down of what we can expect. So far the government has been somewhat aloof with respect to filling us in. Some speculate that they are still putting it all together. Many interest groups are currently lobbying the government to allow for exceptions to the Harmonized sales tax or to exempt their products all together. ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 19, 2009
The Greater Vancouver housing market experienced a dramatic rebound this year. Residential sales increased threefold January to October on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is trending on record levels.
A marked increase in affordability during the spring induced many potential buyers into the market and the resulting momentum quickly turned a buyer’s market into a seller’s market ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 19, 2009
Is this the right time to buy a property?
Yes. Home values are recovering much faster than we all thought they would. Nonetheless, home prices are still more affordable than they were 2 years ago. The bank of Canada has much to do with the recovery of the housing market by lowering interest rates to stabilize the economy. With interest rates so low and housing prices still recovering, ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on November 19, 2009
It seems everyday we are hearing another project introduced in New Westminster to make the city a btter place. Recently the City has amped up it's efforts to aquire all the property between Begbie and Eighth on the North side of Columbia. The City plans to put up a Recreation centre.
Click HERE to view the full article in the Royal City Record
The City of New Westminster ...
Posted by Barry Connerty
on October 22, 2009