Richmond BC Real Estates

On January 16, 2008, the British Columbia Government approved individual real estate licensees to form Personal Real Estate Corporations. This new legislation will go into effect on January 1, 2009.The Personal Real Estate Corporation structure allows licensed realtors to access the business adv...

Below is a summary of an article by Tom Kelly  published in Inman News on Jauary 23, 2008.  According to the National Association of Realtors, 65 percent of Florida Realtors had at least one international customer, and the trade group's "Profile of International Home Buying Activity" indicated t...

The following is an excerpt by The Globe and Mail on the move by the Bank of Canada cutting interest rate by one-quarter point.     The U.S. Federal Reserve announced its surprise massive interest rate cut of three-quarters of a percentage point about an hour before the Bank of Canada officially ...

There are many choices for web-design and web-hosting services. I am interested in getting a domain for my real estate web-site that has the "navigation side bar", "blog rolls", "tags" and "blogging" functionality.Wordpress themes have most of the above requirements and the hosting of a wordpress...

Grant Surridge, Financial Post Published: Friday, January 11, 2008:The Canadian economy surprised observers by losing 18,700 jobs in December, as the strong loonie continues to weigh on the country's manufacturing sector.Agriculture lost 23,000 jobs, while the transportation and construction sect...

Below is a Real Estate Articles from Inman News today, January 11, 2008: NEW YORK -- The U.S. housing market is in bad shape, but John H. Vogel Jr. is a man with a plan. Vogel, a permanent adjunct professor for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College who spoke during the Real Estate Conn...

  The B.C. 2008 property assessment notices sent out to home owners last week showed an increase of 10% to 20%in property values as compared with 2007. The following is an article by Martin van den Hemel - Richmond Review - January 02, 2008: Assessed values red hot Most Richmond residents will f...

Richmond BC Housing Market for December 2007 Here are the December median sale prices as reported by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver: Housing Type December 2007 November 2007 December 2006 Detached $685,000 $669,000 $622,000 Townhouse $450,000 $452,000 $388,000 Condo $296,000 $297,000...

The Greater Vancouver residential housing sales for 2007 is out. The full report is posted below: 2007 residential housing sales rank second all-timeVANCOUVER, B.C. -- January 3, 2008 - Residential housing sales for 2007 are the second highest ever recorded by the Real Estate Board of Greater Van...

Beautiful British Columbia British Columbia, situated in the Pacific North West and exposed to the Pacific Ocean to the west, has a mild climate year-round. The weather in the summer is not hot, and it is not too cold in winter. The winter months are short, and snows in winter are confined to hi...