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  1. RRSP vs TFSA

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    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    29-05-2014
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  2. Bridlewood at 3470 Highlnd Drive Coquitlam by polygon

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    29-05-2014
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  3. Housing in Vancouver Becoming Even Less Affordable

    Emma Crawford HampelOther Rising real estate prices in Vancouver are helping to increase market confidence, but are leading to housing becoming even less affordable, RBC announced May 27. According to the bank’s Housing Trends and Affordability Report, the percentage of pre-tax income that the average Vancouverite needed to service the costs of owning a home […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    26-05-2014
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  4. $400m North Vancouver Waterfront Project Closer to Reality

    Glen KorstromOther The City of North Vancouver and Concert Properties are finalizing an agreement that would pave the way for Concert to build a $400 million mixed-use project along the waterfront in conjunction with Knightsbridge Properties. Ken Bogress, Concert senior vice-president of development, told Business in Vancouver that he expects the city to “button up” […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    26-05-2014
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  5. Mortgage Companies Gain as Bubble Talk Spurned: Corporate Canada

    Greg QuinnOther Mortgage insurer Genworth MI Canada Inc. (MIC) and lender Home Capital Group Inc. (HCG) are surging as investors wager the country will avoid a housing bubble and the companies pick up business vacated by the government’s housing agency. Genworth, Canada’s largest private residential mortgage insurer, has advanced 54 percent over the past year […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    22-05-2014
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  6. Canada’s Oliver does not see a housing or mortgage crisis

    Jamie HenryOther It’s Official – No Housing Crisis in CanadaFinance Minister Joe Oliver says there is no impending housing or mortgage crisis in Canada. Speaking in an interview with CTV News, Oliver said the government has stepped in to cool the market a number of times and is watching the situation but doesn’t “think we’re […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    22-05-2014
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  7. Vancouver’s international housing market is tightly connected to what happens to the Chinese economy

    Real Estate Goes Global James Surowiecki Other The most expensive housing market in North America is not where you’d think. It’s not New York City or Orange County, California, but Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, Vancouver is a beautiful city—a thriving deep-water port, a popular site for TV and movie shoots. By all accounts, it is […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    21-05-2014
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  8. Are shorter mortgage amortizations always better? In some cases, no

    Robert McListerOther For years we’ve been taught that shorter mortgage amortizations are better. Most people in the mortgage business don’t challenge this premise and certain lenders preach it as gospel. Consider this recent statement by a bank spokesperson: “Choosing a shorter amortization is the most responsible approach to home financing. It’s something we have been […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    20-05-2014
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  9. Home Sales Dip in Canada Indicates Dull Housing Market

    Trend continues with dropping sales despite rising prices in most Canadian markets Other OTTAWA - Canadian home sales were up from March but down from a year ago in April, signalling the lacklustre spring market will continue. The Canadian Real Estate Association said home sales were up 2.7 percent from March to April, boosted by […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    20-05-2014
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  10. Interest hot for Canadian hotel properties

    JOEL SCHLESINGER Other Regina’s Hotel Saskatchewan may not have the chateau-style architecture of its sister hotels built across Canada by Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as the Banff Springs Hotel and the Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Yet the elegant, 10-storey iconic landmark on Victoria Avenue, completed in […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    20-05-2014
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