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Brexit & Your Mortgage

Brexit & Your Mortgage

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Short Version Lower rates for longer is the initial prognosis. Referendums: Just a flawed concept.   Long Version While Canada is somewhat insulated from the direct economic consequences of Brexit, so little of CDN...
Myths, Analysis, and Emotion in Vancouver Real Estate

Myths, Analysis, and Emotion in Vancouver Real Estate

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Short Version Emotion drives our real estate market, but should it go unchecked? There is no metric for emotion. Emotion does not always equal logic. Interest rates play a small role in real estate pricing. Foreign buyers...
Property Transfer Tax Changes

Property Transfer Tax Changes

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Property Transfer Tax Changes Short Version There are no changes to the first-time home buyer exemption limits (with the exception of point #2 which includes first time buyers). All buyers (first-time buyers and repeat...
The Big Short – Not a Canadian Story

The Big Short – Not a Canadian Story

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]The Big Short – An American film about American finance.   Many Canadians, particularly those in Vancouver and Toronto where real estate is spoken of like a sport, will gravitate to the film The Big Short over the coming...
Interest Rates, Interest Rates, and…

Interest Rates, Interest Rates, and…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]Market Update Dec -2015, November sales activity in the Vancouver market was 46% above the 10-year average… the trend continues. The metrics that indicate that Vancouver is now into the strongest seller’s market of the past...