Smartphone apps can be incredibly helpful tools for exploring the city — both for tourists and locals. In the summer, we tend to spend more time in the streets, enjoying the perks of Vancouver and the warm weather and simple pleasures. Check out our choice of the top smartphone apps focused on Vancouver!
The Greater Vancouver housing market is showing early signs of a revival, with relative balance between the number of homes for sale and the number of people looking to purchase a home in the region today.
Moving can be a regular hassle in the best of scenarios, but moving with children in tow is a whole other kettle of fish. Kids are often wary of change, so it’s best to be well prepared. Follow these ten steps to make the moving process as stress-free as possible.
With the click of a button, you can determine your property taxes online. We’ve updated our Property Tax Calculator with 2013 rates applicable for Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley municipalities to estimate your tax payment based on your property type.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) report for May 2013 shows that housing property sales in Greater Vancouver totalled 2,882 on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This represents a 1 per cent increase compared to the 2,853 sales recorded in May 2012, and a 9.7 per cent increase compared to the 2,627 sales in April 2013.
Those of you who have had to deal with selling your house know that there are a couple of seemingly irrelevant factors that could slash the value of the house significantly. However, home-buyers are not mythical creatures whose behaviour is impossible to predict. You just have to try walking in their shoes and going around the house as if you were visiting for the first time.
When we look at the April 2013 monthly statistical report, we can see better market balance than we saw in recent months. We can hopefully expect this trend to continue through the remaining spring and summer period.
As technology becomes more sophisticated, so too do criminals. What steps should you follow, and how can you make sure your house is safe? What are the safest and riskiest neighbourhoods in Vancouver? And what do statistics say about Vancouver’s residential burglary rates? See my infographic for more information.
Even though the global economy has undergone a major slowdown in the past few years, there are countries that do not lack wealthy people. According to a recent list of the top ten countries with the most billionaires made by a New York–based intelligence and wealth due diligence firm Wealth-X, the number of billionaires has grown, as well as the overall wealth generated by them, which has increased $760 billion since last year. Canada has done pretty well.
According to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, home sale activity in Vancouver’s real estate market is improving but remains below historical averages. The drop came as REBGV reported a drop in sales of 18.3 per cent, at 2,347 sales, in March compared with the 2,874 sales recorded in the same period a year ago.
Phoenix Island (also known as “China’s Dubai,” a part of Hainan, a Belgium-sized province on the South China Sea), with its blocks of sail-shaped skyscrapers surrounded by tropical ocean is the epitome of an unprecedented housing boom.
A living fence is an aesthetic and ecological solution for marking the boundaries of your property as well as providing privacy and discouraging trespassers. It creates a physical and visual barrier, provides shade, and shields you from the wind. Ordinary fences are expensive and require maintenance or need to be replaced quickly.
The Vancouver real estate market has trended below historical averages for a full year now. Last month’s sales were the second lowest February total in the region since 2001, and the figures were 30.9 per cent below the ten-year sales average for the month.
Almost entirely a residential area, Shaughnessy is home to approximately 2,970 households spread over 447 hectares of land. Residents of Shaughnessy enjoy a good and central location; the lovely neighbourhood is the city’s geographic heart and its borders are 16th Avenue in the north, 41st Avenue in the south, Oak Street in the east, and Arbutus Street in the west.
Greater Vancouver recorded its second lowest January in home sales since 2001, which is 18.7 per cent below the 10-year sales average.