Tim Ayres's Real Estate Blog

Application sails through Planning and Zoning Committee this week. An ambitious proposal by a local landowner to develop a 6.5 acre parcel consisting of three separate lots on Happy Valley Road in Langford includes plans for daycare, commercial space, and 171 units of condominium and row housing...

Home Prices Increase Moderately in Vancouver, Victoria: BCREANews Release from the BC Real Estate Association:For immediate releaseHome Prices Rise Modestly in Vancouver and Victoria Vancouver, BC – November 21, 2007. British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports residential sales volu...

Not exactly Victoria-related, but kind of about real estate! Too cool not to post on my blog! This was taken from the filmmaker’s Yaletown Condo. Vancouver Real Estate is all about condos downtown - wonder how much the view from this place costs!  -Tim Ayres

Every job has its perks, here’s one in real estate. One of the true joys in my working life is when I get to work with people I know. As  REALTORS®, we are constantly promoting ourselves and our services, and are honoured to get the business of strangers who like what our marketing materials say...

How much time do you spend on spam every day? As the resident geek in the office, I’m constantly asked by my fellow agents: “How can I get rid of all this junk e-mail?!” From shady business propositions to uhh… equipment enhancers, there is no shortage of spam out there. As REALTORS®, we want to...

From my other Blog: I don’t think you’d find a real estate professional in the Victoria area who’d tell you they expected 2007 to outperform 2006. Everyone said the market was plateauing, that we should expect properties to sit on the market for months, and see price reductions left, right and ce...

From my other blog: Pardon the Pun: This is not a digital manipulation. It is an actual house in France called Maison dans les Roches (House Between the Rocks) de Plougrescant. I believe it is located in the Brittany region. Beyond that I wasn’t able to dig up a lot of information on it. Pretty f...

From my other blog:  Google’s popular web-based e-mail app gets an upgrade. The geeks have been calling for it quite literally since Gmail’s inception a few years ago. Yahoo! Mail already offers it. Now IMAP is finally here. What is so exciting? Well, anyone who has been using Gmail as their prim...

From my other Blog: The Pointe is Sunriver’s first phase of townhouses Sooke’s Sunriver Estates, the popular 382-acre planned community just west of Victoria, BC, has just released its first multi-family development. Called The Pointe, it will be a clustering of 32 units in 8 strata buildings in...

From my other blog:More good news from the BC Real Estate Association about market conditions. It seems that 2007 is looking more like 2005 than 2006. Continued strong numbers like this is great news for all involved in the housing market. Vancouver, BC – October 18, 2007. British Columbia Real E...