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Bear vs. Bull in the Battle of Vancouver

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Haven’t you always wanted to see housing market data presented as an exciting battle map?

Somewhat more exciting than your average excel sheet, VMD has started a Battle of Vancouver thread over at Vancouverpeak.com where he’s got maps showing the ups and downs of the market for condos and single family homes.

It’s interesting that you really get a sense of things changing on the periphery first.

There’s a stripe of red in the centre where prices are still up year over year. Here’s the map for Single Family Homes:

There’s a similar thing happening in Condo prices, although more areas are Year over Year negative there.  Oh, and for extra excitement on this map there’s TANKS! (each tank represents a single percent point up or down):

Click here to view the full thread on Vancouverpeak.com

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Merridith

Tried to use the invite code p3k0-icze-u2up.

Copied it into the field so there was definitely no typos. But doesn’t work.

Just an FYI.

Why do you need an ‘invite’ code anyways? Why can’t you just join?

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More Data Please

@Vote Down The Facts: Initiative 502 WA. 95% State tax!

http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/i502.pdf

Very interesting tax scheme. 25% tax on each of growers, processors, and retailers. Each requires a specific license for the activity.

1.25 * 1.25 * 1.25 = 1.953

It might be possible to cheat one tax but unlikely all three. The initiative designers must have also figured out the value added by criminal production and distribution exceeded 48% of final consumer cost to settle on the 95% number.

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WOWSERS

Move on Mr Mittwitt!

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William Wallace is siding with the enemy on this one

@Saint Patrick:

there was a day – about 50 years ago

when corporate taxes were the equivalent of personal income taxes today (as percentage of income?)

and income taxes were as low as corporate taxes are today

i don’t have the stats, i just think that’s bullshit.

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William Wallace is siding with the enemy on this one

@Reality Bull!: you wouldn’t call us racist if we weren’t calling you out on your shady bullshit and sucking our social services dry so born-in-Canada Canadians can’t benefit i speak a little chinese; i’ve lost track of how many conversations i’ve overheard that contain some mention of ‘look at that hen gao wai-guo-ren’ or ‘zhongguo zui hao guo’ or whining about Canada and Canadians. to be honest it makes me sick; and they are as racist as the British were at the turn of the century. we’re all racist; just that some of us realize when we’re being dicks. we’re all the same talking monkey, just separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles. the myth of national exceptionalism is alive and well with these people, just like the british, germans, and americans before them. but i’m biased –… Read more »

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Saint Patrick

“M” is a completely brainwashed zombie. So happy to pay all those taxes and get nothing in return. We are taxed to death!!!!! And it’s “M”orons like him that assist in the raping of the Canadian people.

Do you have any idea how much revenue is generated from “gas tax”? More than enough to pay for the roads.
“Property tax” more than enough to pay for the police and water.
“Corporate tax” pays for health care and military.

“Personal income tax” pays the interest on what it costs to have the bank of Canada lend us our own money.

Fucking brainwashed fools. No wonder Canada is being given away

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BRITTANNY

What you gonna do now Mr. Harper now that Obama has been re-elected? You are f…………………….d X’s 10. Haha you self absorbed miopic bad excuse for a leader!!!

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mac

Note to Jesse:

I’m betting $5 with myself that Helmut Patrick (however he spells it) will “retire” before the SHTF!

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Vote Down The Facts

@Anonymous: “Washington state just decriminalized pot. Is this a pro or a con for the BC economy?”

Go long McDonalds.

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Patiently Waiting

@Reality Check: “So One application can bring in many people.”

Very interesting. Though, keep in mind, this would all be within the roughly quarter million a year. It just means that even a greater percentage of that will be family reunification immigrants.

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jesse

If I’m reading this map right Vanwest condos went independent

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Anonymous

Washington state just decriminalized pot. Is this a pro or a con for the BC economy?

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Reality Check

@ More Data Please..

There are 25,000 applications under the parent/grandparent stream that are going to be fully processed this year. 25,000 next.

What this means?

Having being familiar with these applications (South Asian descent), I can tell you one application includes parents, grandparents, and any number of brothers/sisters under the age of 18 (or 25 if still going to school). So One application can bring in many people. Seen it first hand.

Note that press releases always confuse (purposely?) applications with immigrants! Also, when a 25 year old skilled immigrant comes here…he/she goes marries overseas and the spouse begins this process.

Immigration primarily benefits Large Corporations and Real estate industry (Banks, etc.)…

Note that Real estate took off in 1986 … directly coinciding with a huge increase in immigration numbers by Mulroney.

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Boombust

“I’ll go back to watching the puppet show called The Presidential Election.”

Shot or deported, it’s all the same.

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Anonymus

Anonymous Says “I’ll go back to watching the puppet show called The Presidential Election.”

CSPAN has the Prez, Congress and Senate results flashing quite quickly along with %’s in. With mute on, it is quite pleasent compared to the bloviating gasbags on the MSM channels blubbering their idiot opinions.

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VHB
Total days	21
Days elapsed so far	4
Weekends / holidays	2
Days missing	0
Days remaining	17
7 Calendar Day Moving Average: Sales	76
7 Calendar Day Moving Average: Listings	148
SALES	
Sales so far	323
Projection for rest of month (using 7day MA)	1289
Projected month end total	1612
NEW LISTINGS	
Listings so far	620
Projection for rest of month (using 7day MA)	2519
Projected month end total	3139
Sell-list so far	52.1%
Projected month-end sell-list	51.3%
MONTHS OF INVENTORY	
Inventory as of November 6, 2012	17652
Current MoI at this sales pace	10.95
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Anonymous

@Laibach: I generally don’t post because I can’t/won’t buy property; but I have a deep interest in how others are dealing with this financial distortion and how it will effect generations. Everyone is barking up the wrong tree about ‘racism’. I’ve pointed this out to friends (or anyone willing to listen), this isn’t about foreigners taking advantage. Our government handlers are following the globalist agenda – that is; trash the social fabric while enriching themselves. You can’t blame individuals that are opportunistic (most people are) but eventually you have to look at the game plan and who is enabling this to happen. (Meanwhile we put the boots to some poor sap trying to survive as a part time tutor, or some schmuck renting out their basement for cash). We have lost the plot when we start fighting amongst ourselves. It… Read more »

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Anonymous

@paintedturtle: (

(A good example is CCOs (Corrupt Communist Officials).
You should rewrite as:Corrupt Cheena officials,because they are No more a Communist entity,indeed they never were;they are just a bunch of elite Cheenamen who have created the most corrupt social system in human history.

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Anonymous

@patriotz:

If this person is only working part time @ $25/hour, I doubt she’d have much tax liability in the first place, especially given that student loan interest is tax deductible.

I think you kid needs a smarter tutor.

That’s a big if. The OP only stated that the tutor cannot find full-time work. Maybe her part time work as a teacher along with the tutoring puts her income into a taxable position.

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M-

@victoria: “math tutor. A recent graduate who cannot find a full-time teaching job is tutoring a few high school kids a week to pay off student loans and bills. Well she didn’t declare the $25 a session tutoring and the tax man got a hold of her.” I’m going to have to side with Patriotz and others in this case– if your daughter’s math tutor is earning $25/session by tutoring, then she can tutor for about 10 sessions a week without incurring a single penny in tax liability. Even more if you consider that her tuition fees are tax-deductible. If she earns enough via tutoring that she’d owe any taxes, then, well, fair’s fair, and she ought to pay taxes like everybody else. I declare all my income, and I pay a high tax rate as a result. I’m fine… Read more »

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paulb

Love the maps VMD! Great work.

New Listings 151
Price Changes 84
Sold Listings 79

TI:17652

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Reality Bull!

@Laibach: Scape goating in times of economic difficulty is common in white culture. One just has to look at history.

“Where do you think “all that racism” came from? How it came all of a sudden if we were so nice and polite before?”

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Vote Down The Facts

@victoria: “Someone trying to get by and is done by the tax people. However we let all kinds of corrupt money into this country????”

Two wrongs don’t make a right. They should’ve declared the income. simple as that.

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patriotz

” A recent graduate who cannot find a full-time teaching job is tutoring a few high school kids a week to pay off student loans and bills.

Well she didn’t declare the $25 a session tutoring and the tax man got a hold of her.”

If this person is only working part time @ $25/hour, I doubt she’d have much tax liability in the first place, especially given that student loan interest is tax deductible.

I think you kid needs a smarter tutor.

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Laibach

@painted turtle:

Where do you think “all that racism” came from? How it came all of a sudden if we were so nice and polite before? Who forced the way in with the money toward economic, cultural and language ghettoization? Who brought some odd customs and rules that suddenly we all had to accept? Who arrogantly took advantage of the social and economic system while insidiously laughed behind luxurious cars and homes on the rest of us who still had to contribute and support this country? Who do you think is becoming a slave and hostage in their own country because numerous Nuevo Riches decided to create their safe heaven while squeamishly despised those who let them in?

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