February 2015

BC to gain from Alberta's loss

Posted on Feb 28, 2015

I'm a little late in updating my Blog on this but it seems to have become true. Only today I had young Calgary buyers through a listing. Moving back to the Land of Milk and Honey from the Land of Depressed Oil Prices...https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/housing/the-real-estate-beat/vancouver-housing-market-booming-as-bc-reap...

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No Areas Are Seller's Markets says BMO - Has this guy visited West Vancouver? 

Posted on Feb 20, 2015

The slowdown in the oil industry with the resulting job losses will mean a “moderate” decline in the Alberta housing market. That’s the view of BMO Capital Markets senior economist Sal Guatieri who wrote in a report yesterday that prices will slip back this year due to a reversal in migration. Nationally, the report says that demand is “especially...

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Would BC cut the Property Transfer Tax?

Posted on Feb 20, 2015

Why would the Province cut the PTT which pumps so much into Provincial/Municipal coffers? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-property-transfer-tax-could-be-cut-premier-christy-clark-hints-1.2963133

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