2019 will shape up to be the best years in a long time if you’re a first-time homebuyer. Inventory levels are excellent; prices […]
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19 Mar, 2019
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Today’s federal budget offered help to young homebuyers, many of whom find it very difficult to afford to purchase in some of our […]
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It has been a few weeks since the new NDP government delivered its 2019 provincial budget. It proved light on new housing measures, […]
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On March 1st, Stats Canada released disappointing figures showing that the economy barely grew in the final quarter of last year. Weakness in the […]
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Home listings continue to increase across all housing categories in the Metro Vancouver housing market while home buyer activity remains below historical averages. […]
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In 2018, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) looked at the debt-to-income of people around the country and found that Vancouverites owe much more […]
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Alternative lenders are thriving in the wake of the mortgage stress test so much so that, in early January, news reports claimed that […]
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14 Jan, 2019
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Home sales in Metro Vancouver plummeted to their lowest level in nearly two decades last year and the average home price moved lower […]
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14 Jan, 2019
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Although the BC government introduced an artificial rental cap at 2.5% for 2019, BC landlords will be increasing rents in 2019 as strong […]
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As expected, the BC government’s speculation and vacancy tax passed in the legislature on November 22, 2018. The politically controversial yet publicly supported tax […]
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