Christie's Real Estate Team

Huge news in the mortgage industry! Courtesy of our government website the first time homebuyers threshold has gone from 375k to 425K Please see below First Time Home Buyer's Program Introduced in 1994, the First Time Home Buyers' Program is designed to help British Columbians purchase their first home. Under the program, eligible purchasers can claim an exemption from Property Transfer Tax if the fair market value of the home is less than the threshold amount.

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B.C. home sales jump 14% in June-to-August period

August sales 25.9% higher than the same month in 2006

Sun

Wednesday, September, 19, 2007

 

 

 

 

The cool,

Urban home sales fall

Prices down from July, but up from year ago

Helen Morris

Province

Sunday, September, 16, 2007

 

 

Realtors

Huge hikes in value 'to end'

Experts forecasting correction or moderated gains

Ashley Ford

Province

Friday, September, 14, 2007

 

 

Richard Wittstock,

$18 million apartment at 1000 Beach Avenue is elegant

A mansion in the sky

John Mackie

Sun

Friday, September, 14, 2007

 

 

The dining

Home prices running risk of eventual slowdown

Markets across the country are running ahead of normal long-term pricing trends

Bruce Constantineau

Sun

Friday, September, 14, 2007

 

 

VANCOUVER

Baby boomers to continue to drive demand for condos

Prices to rise through 2011, says Genworth report

Anne Howland

Province

Thursday, September, 13, 2007

 

 

OTTAWA -- Baby boomers leaving their "empty nests" for more convenient, smaller homes near shops and restaurants will keep the price of condos in major Canadian cities buoyant

It takes 71% of household income to buy a bungalow

Mortgage rates, price gains erode Vancouver affordability

Michael Kane

Sun

Thursday, September, 13, 2007

 

 

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No break seen in rise of condo prices

Boomers leaving empty nests and first-time homebuyers fuel increases

Sun

Thursday, September, 13, 2007

 

 

 

 

Growing demand

September 11th, 2007 - - Greetings.  Yes, six years ago today the world changed.  I still remember coming home from Anchorage Alaska the morning of 9/11 and just in the nick-of-time too!  We were on a 7 day Alaska Cruise and arrived at the Vancouver airport at 4:00 AM, thank you Canada 3000 for being 9 hours behind schedule.  I still cannot fathom what happened that morning as I was glued to CNN on the TV for the entire day.  I'm sure you all distinctly remember where you were that morning as well.  It certainly looks like summer finally arrived here in the lower mainland, seems like it too is a couple of months past