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Real Estate Issues

Canadian Real Estate and Immigration

May 15, 2011

Living Quarters: Canadian Options As with most countries, Canada offers a wide variety of options when it comes to choosing a place to call “home.” The choice you make will depend on several factors, including your budget, your space needs, and your desired location. Below are some of the options you may want to consider: [...]

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Energy and Real Estate

April 17, 2011

The last 150-200 years have been a period of extraordinarily cheap energy. Besides energizing almost all our methods of production, cheap fuels have also seriously distorted our way of living so that most of the middle-class section of the North American population live far away from their places of work. More specifically, cheap fuel and [...]

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Real Estate Hidden Gems in Canada

March 19, 2011

Historically, a meltdown in the U.S. economy such as the one we’re experiencing would ripple a wake of negative growth through Canada. So far, that’s not happened and some optimists wonder if Canada is flexing its economic independence for the first time. With an abundance of natural resources, the world’s second-largest country has staved off [...]

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Real Estate Investing in Canada – Finding Housing Markets Ready to Explode

March 16, 2011

Many Canadian real estate investors look for growing housing markets in which to invest. They try to buy properties just before real estate prices begin to be driven up. One of the more reliable ways to identify promising markets is to examine various economic factors that influence prices. Here are some factors that may be [...]

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Are We Going To See Double-Digit Interest Rates In Real Estate Again?

March 9, 2011

No, we are not going to see double-digit interest rates in Real Estate any time soon. The economic and political environments today are far different from those of the early ’80′s. Two clients have posited this question to me, comparing the economic ravages resulting from the political situation of the 70′s and early ’80′s with [...]

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Understanding The Real Estate Inflation Game

February 19, 2011

In the Fraser Valley’s rapidly expanding real estate market there are several elements to consider. You are probably aware of the concept of inflation. But just to recap, inflation means that the increasing cost of buying a service or a product (tangible or intangible). This decreases your purchasing power. For example, an item that cost [...]

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Selling Homes in a Changing Real Estate Market

February 16, 2011

The real estate market is cooling which for many people will mean less money for their homes after more time to sell them. Staging professionals aim to change that trend for agents who know the advantage of this service for their listings. Homes that have been staged have been known to sell three times faster, [...]

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Selling of Real Estate by Non-Residents of Canada

February 13, 2011

As I deal routinely with non-resident investors wanting to sell Canadian real estate assets, I would like to shed some light on this otherwise somewhat arcane subject. DISCLAIMER: please note that the following essay is presented solely for general information purposes, it is not intended to be legal advice or purported to be as such, [...]

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First Time Home Buyers – Should You Sign a Buyer Agent Contract?

February 12, 2011

You have been saving your pennies. Waiting for the opportunity to buy that first dream home. Finally, the day has arrived. You have enough for the down payment. Now what do you do? The first thing, you should do, as one of the first time home buyers in Canada, is find yourself a Buyers Agent. [...]

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Canada and the Housing Explosion

February 6, 2011

Canadian real estate market is growing at an alarming rate. This phenomenal growth is more prevalent in the western provinces, and this has been primarily aided by increased number of jobs; low unemployment rate, low interest rates and as the result low mortgage rates on the real estate property. These low interest mortgage loans were [...]

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