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Blog Posts: Buying
Interest in home buying remains strong in Vancouver
Despite high prices, recent seminar for first-time purchasers shows dream of ownership still alive and well.
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Where will our children live?
NIMBY torchbearers fail the community when they say we need slower growth and less urbanization in Vancouver.
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Bits & Bites by Peter Simpson for METRO
An Ovation for housing excellence
The finalists for the third annual Ovation Awards have been announced by the Greater Vancouver Home Builders' Association (GVHBA).
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Seminar will clear the fog for first-time homebuyers
For three nights running, I awakened suddenly, bolt upright, in a clammy, cold sweat.
Recurring nightmare? Well, kinda. A carefree 20-something working stiff, I had just bought my first home, and I fretted endlessly over whether I had made the right decision.
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Bits & Bites by Peter Simpson for METRO
Province Increases Rebate Threshold
B.C. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon recently unveiled the HST transition rules for new housing, alleviating the uncertainty around how the HST will revert back to the PST/GST system.
Categories: Renovations / Renovating, Affordability, Buying, Building, Using a professional
Giving thanks for living in a place of solid construction
I extend to readers a belated welcome to 2012. Before you read further, do something for me — and yourselves. Walk to the nearest lawn, get down on your knees, then plant a big kiss on the ground.
Categories: New homes, Affordability, Buying
Mayor's housing initiative blazes no trails
There have been lots of recommendations made over the years about making housing affordable, but little action has been taken on them.
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Bits & Bites by Peter Simpson for METRO
Addressing Rentals
Earlier this month, a B.C. coalition of industry, non-profit and government leaders signed the Canadian Rental Housing Charter, a plan to increase the supply of affordable rental housing across Canada.
Categories: New homes, Affordability, Buying
Adjustments to new housing rebate threshold needed
When is a 20th anniversary not a good reason to pop the cork on a bottle of bubbly? Apparently, when it involves a promise of tax relief from the federal government.
Does anyone remember life before the harmonized sales tax? (It seems like a lifetime ago when Gordon Campbell told British Columbians the HST was going to be wonderful for them.)
Categories: Affordability, Buying
Bits & Bites by Peter Simpson for METRO
Categories: New homes, Renovations / Renovating, Affordability, Buying, Building
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