Comments on: Robson Street ‘surprisingly affordable’

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:43:55 +0000

What's most disgusting is the number of sponsored visitors being treated and operated on without paying at the largesse of the province. For those who insist on letting their 6-inch doing all the thinking, you obvious don't need to know.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:36:20 +0000

quote – “Also, the immigrant investor program will be doubling the required investment effective July 1, 2010. That will reduce the number of “business investors” coming from China.”

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I don't know where TonyPepe got this info. But from memory, after Liberals came to power, it was reduced to $200k investment capital to attract more business investors. It is now $400k and applicant must have a net worth of $800k.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/immigrate/business/i…

Not a big deal, as many who come on "skilled" category – would easily have a net worth of $1M to $2M.

Just yesterday, Vancouver Sun has a story on a couple returning to China and they paid $34,000 for a bottle of cognac.
http://www.dfnionline.com/article/Rare-cognac-bre…

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By: Inventory

Inventory — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:34:18 +0000

18,741

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By: paulb.

paulb. — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:28:15 +0000

New Listings 265 Price Changes 167 Sold Listings 99

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By: Raincouver

Raincouver — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:23:53 +0000

@Raguz: That's a great comparison. Thanks.

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By: Whitebear

Whitebear — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:58:53 +0000

Really?
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Russian_Hill-Sa…
Here is an objective view of the Russian Hill area over the decade per sqf. Ignore the extremes in the last 3 years due to avg price being skewed by fewer transactions and you will realize that it is still around the 2007 level.

http://www.trulia.com/property/1090088629-Single-…
BTW, thanks for the other contributor for showing us this very good listing in SanFran. Mind you. This is just a listing price. Well, in the same page, you will see some of the recent "Sold homes near this property". Click on every one of them and you will realize they are all old houses on small lots selling at >1.5M. So-called real estate crash in the US!!!

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By: realpaul

realpaul — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:48:08 +0000

#114 L, don't hesitate to stretch out here a little. The Libs are in deep crapola on the HST, don't think they're not past bribing the sheeple with their own money. The 600K+++ anti HST petition now far exceeds the number of votes the LIBs got in the last election. The RE CALL campaign is on, believe it. Not only will it happen but the most vulnerable ridings are those with junior MLA's who haven't got the pension time in. They are not going to let Campell screw them out of the lifetime trough without a fight. The army of petition workers were all NDP volunteers, still think that RE CALL isn't the aim? 7 Libs won by a very slim margin, thats enough to bring the government down. Expect all sorts of promises from the LIBs, including a 'signing bonus'. They've got until November, thats when the legislative fireworks begins, between now and then something will happen to try and pull it off...like bribes...coersion...fraud...dirty tricks...draconian manipulation of democracy...the whole Liberal bag of tricks.

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By: 4slicesofcheese

4slicesofcheese — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:41:52 +0000

Oh great add more fuel to the fire..
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/brit…

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By: nonymouse

nonymouse — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:23:03 +0000

@whitebear

"Average price per square foot for Russian Hill was $719, a decrease of 35% compared to the same period last year."

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Russian_Hill-Sa…

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By: Raguz

Raguz — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:10:20 +0000

@Whitebear:

You should get your act together if you want to sound smart and informed.

Are you really saying that comparing this: http://www.trulia.com/property/1090088629-Single-… to that: http://www.realtylink.org/prop_search/Detail.cfm?… would make any sense?

You should go back to Arctic and practice a bit before posting here.

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