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Property Assessments vs. Market Value

Property Assessments vs. Market Value

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Property Assessments vs. Market Value Short Version: Do not rely on your BC assessment for a fair market value of your property. The value printed on that document was arrived at in July of the previous year, the market may...
Interest Rates, First Time Buyers & Socks

Interest Rates, First Time Buyers & Socks

Following a similar post 363 days ago of the same title…this post is a very brief summary of two much longer ones written earlier today. You may click the links that follow for the long version. As we race into the holiday season, a few brief notes for first-time...
Tell Me About Interest Rates…

Tell Me About Interest Rates…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]Some facts, and some thoughts on the recent movement we have seen with regard to interest rates. VARIABLE & SHORT-TERM FIXED Variable-rate and short-term (1, 2, & ~3 yr) fixed are largely dictated by Bank of Canada...
108 Year 7 month Amortization… Totally Cool Says The Fed!

108 Year 7 month Amortization… Totally Cool Says The Fed!

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]July 2015 I wrote 136 words on this topic, hoping that the image alone would get some traction. It was a pretty insane image to a numbers geek like me – linked here.   Perhaps this 381 words worth will garner more...
Changes For All Coming Oct 17, 2016

Changes For All Coming Oct 17, 2016

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]Happy Turkey-Day!     What do these changes mean for you? If you are actively shopping for a home and have less than a 20% down payment, your new maximum purchase price Oct 17 (likely sooner) will be REDUCED by 20%...