Welcome to the long summer of your dreams!
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the time is right for a new thread!
So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes in the comments below and have an excellent long and virus free weekend!
bullwhip29:
“RBC Economics: Pent-up demand exhausted, Canadian real-estate market to lose momentum, but not prices”
“All signs point to still-higher prices in the near-term,” according to Hogue.”
Typical double talk from mortgage pumper.
What usually take place is that the boss asks for a report with three possible scenarios: optimist, pessimist, and balanced.
The boss gets to pick what gets published, and fluff is presented as a study rather than a marketing tool.
Teranet has Vancouver real estate prices rising 0.2% in August, quite a bit less than the real estate board’s 0.7%.
The market is on fire!
Pretty close to 30% off by the end of summer, but not quite. Bears win, again!
Calling the Mandarin Han Communist Invaders Locusts is not hate speech.
Here’s why. In China they officially banned black people from Mcdonalds, by posting public signage in the restaurant. This is undeniable and outrageous racism.
Attitudes should be reciprocal.
When China decides to stop this and many other official racist actions towards foreigners in China, we can then look to see if describing the collective actions of these invaders here as locust behaviour, is actually racist… As of now it is freedom of speech.
The fine people of Hong Kong who are being persecuted by the evil mainland scum call the invaders locusts.
I stand with the people of Hong Kong.
Fuck you, locusts!
But you don’t stand with your fellow white Canadians. You are a traitor. The only reason why Hong Kongers get away with it is because they are non-white.
Where does BPOM not stand with white Canadians?
He doesn’t stand with me.
Imagine if in the not too distant past we let let citizens of the Communist Soviet Union buy up Metro Vancouver?
What makes these communist Chinese Locusts any different?
I don’t necessarily disagree with that. I am just tired of double standards and constantly being labeled a practitioner of hate speech by both the Left and Right while others get away with more egregious language. I would love to see BPOM advance that argument in court.
Hypocrisy is the go to word that “society” now abides by.
There is no hate speech, just freedom of speech.
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Someone asked SIDA why he hasn’t commented on Netflix’s Cuties movie yet. Good point. Why is pedophilia and sexual exploitation of minors a partisan issue??? This is something that has bothered me since at least 2018 when leftists were saying it was a right wing conspiracy theory that NAMBLA was ever part of the broader LGBT movement. No, it’s not a conspiracy and it shouldn’t be something that only concerns rightwingers. I remember it and I have posted about that. People on here have interpreted my comments about recruitment of underage boys at the GLC youth group in the 1990s (now known as Qmunity) as a threat. I haven’t threatened anyone. If crimes were committed at the GLC, then those who participated should pay. WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS? Why is this partisan??? Guaranteed if Cuties was a movie about boys… Read more »
I don’t necessarily even need to stay on the right wing. I could come back to the Left. But the Left needs to get its act together. Stop defending the undefensible, which includes pedophilia and NAMBLA. Those are undefensible and should be afforded no legitimacy in the public sphere.
The fake left and right wing paradigm is purposely created dialectic to keep people constrained in their thinking, by abiding by or tolerating “established” biases, that they don’t necessarily subscribe to.
It should be obvious to you that this paradigm is slowly dissolving.
Firstly, I’ve not seen anybody ask me to comment on it. Perhaps it’s buried underneath all BPOM’s rage spam?
Secondly, I know nothing about it aside from the fact that it’s a movie or series which has been in the news recently.
Hope this helps.
Playing stupid now doesn’t suit you, and just a heads up, you’re not believable.
I’m a firm believer in being informed in a subject before offering an opinion. That way you don’t make a fool of yourself by suggesting, for example, that NATO’s Libya campaign was over freedom of speech issues.
If you are not critical thinker, and you’ve clearly shown you’re not many times, (instead you are guided by dogma) then you utter absurdities like you just did about the Libya Campaign.
Yes you are a firm “believer”, a zealot.
Unintelligible nonsense.
It’s ok, denial is a helluva drug:)
Good point, you should learn more about pedophilia before taking a stand against it.
Nice try, you abhorrent little shit.
I’m following your guidelines, hypocrite.
We may have exposed a child sex offender posting here. The police may have to get involved.
Shut It Down Already (original) is the handle in question.
Because I can’t offer an opinion on a movie or series I’ve not seen and know absolutely nothing about? Better call the RCMP, I’m sure they’ll get right on that.
I truly do feel like calling the police about ehat happened at the GLC in the 1990s. It’s not right whst happened. And then you get smeared and destroyed for just mentioning it. Because it doesn’t seem real until the police get involved. So I should file a police report. Like I said, we hsve people in our provincial government today who should know what happened at the GLC in the 90s, but turn a blind eye to it. Spencer Herbert Chandra. We’re all around the same age and everyone from my generation ar the GLC knew what was going on, to at least some degree. There’s lots of people who know about it, not just me and Romi and Spencer. I can think of a half dozen people who actually know MORE salacious details than I do. But it’s… Read more »
Someone should ask Spencer Herbert-Chandra, MLA for the West End, or his husband Romi Chandra about what went on at the GLC in the 1990s. They know. Romi became the facilitator of the youth group after the previous adult facilitator was fired for sexually assaulting one of the youth of the youth group. That opened up a spot for Romi to become the next facilitator. Just ask them.
It’s about time the misdeeds of the GLC and its then-celebrated facilitator Matthew Martin who was on the cover of the Province and who my high school guidance counselor told me was someone I could trust. Then one day he disappeared on sex charges never to be seen again. It’s about time that this piece of Vancouver LGBT history make it to the front page of the Vancouver Sun.
I actually think this blog is beneath Paul or any serious or professional person. Not because of wrongthink or racism, but because it is a fake public forum where censorship rules the day. VCI will be coming down. It’s only a matter of time. The woke left will bring it down, not me! I just need to show them what is said on here. So people might want to get on the right side of history now and start boycotting VCI. Blog members like BPOM actually do truly risk being charged with hate speech. This is not a game.
One of the reasons given as to why my comments are deleted is that VCI does not want me to be able to change people’s minds. That was interesting. I am not even trying to change people’s minds. But I feel that is the real motive for my censorship. They;re scare of me because they know I am right. And that has the potential to be very persuasive, whether I am trying to sway people or not doesn’t matter. IMAGINE WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE WITH MY LIFE IF I DIDN”T FACE THIS CONSTANT UPHILL BATTLE!!! Imagine how much futher along Vancouver, BC, and Canada would be if only we didn’t crap all over our best and most talented people and stifle them at every turn.
I have posted so many well thought out respectful comments, rebitting various things. I can’t keep writing them over and over again, out of hopes that this time they won’t be censored.
Dave is a sociopath. He just lies. Total bald faced lies. It doesn’t matter what approach I take, my comments are deleted. And it is not just on VCI. I AM CENSORED ACROSS THE ENTIRE INTERNET. I am really an exreme case of oppression and I don’t know what to do about it but it’s not okay that my human rights have been so deeply violated. VCI is just one small piece of it that makes it worse.
I am seeing commentary on the US election, impeachment, culture wars, fires, climate change, COVID. I am seeing hate speech and abusive comments. Many comments are not connected to real estate at all. These are all the justifications given in the past as to why my comments were deleted but it is clear that there is a double standard at play here and other commenters can wade into these topics. I can’t even comment directly on Vancouver condos. ALL OF MY COMMENTS ARE DELETED!
You will definitely be charged with hate speech as you are clearly VCI Admin. You could face other charges too, like mischief. What you are doing is not right and there needs to be a way to deal with it.
I took before and after screenshots. Dave had a comment up here briefly saying VCI was waiting to delete all my posts at once. Then he deleted it. Dave is VCI Admin. He just gave me more proof
Heard through the grape vine that at least two of the major banks are now asking employees who formerly worked at offices downtown to return to “clean up” their belongings. Each employee will be asked to book a scheduled appointment, adhere to strict COVID-19 guidelines and will be escorted in and out of the building by security.
Surely this doesn’t sound like it fits the “feeling good” and “return to normal” narrative, does it Dave?
Sounds like they could be reconfiguring the space to allow for social distancing so that some may return to the office, and not necessarily abandoning the building.
RBC Economics: Pent-up demand exhausted, Canadian real-estate market to lose momentum, but not prices
https://www.straight.com/news/pent-up-demand-exhausted-canadian-real-estate-market-to-lose-momentum-but-not-prices-rbc
COVID-19 exposures reported at four more Surrey schools bringing the total to ten since the start of the school year
https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/surreys-princess-margaret-the-latest-school-with-possible-covid-19-exposure/
>>> I think it is becoming clearer why all those wedding banquets were shut down seemingly out of the blue.
ELON MUSK TESLA
Don’t need a house to phuck, why are they so expensive?
Jobless numbers were… umm…… “revised”.
“Multiple offers, shortage of listings, selling well over asking” seems to have lost traction.
When COVID is not enough and fraud is a national sport…
“ Authorities have traced the leak back to the Zhongmu Lanzhou biological pharmaceutical factory, which was found to be using expired sanitizers and disinfectants. The factory accidentally vented an aerosolized version of Brucella, the bacteria that causes brucellosis, into the air last summer, causing it to spread across the surrounding area through the wind.”
Chinese pharma leak infects thousands with bacterial disease
https://globalnews.ca/news/7341054/china-bacterial-disease-leak-pharma-brucellosis/amp/
Not real estate related
“Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it’s changing name to better reflect changing mandate”
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-mortgage-and-housing-corp-says-it-s-changing-name-to-better-reflect-changing-mandate-1.5109618
My vote is for HousieMcBubbleFace
N 204
PC 68
S 111
TI 13942
Rush to the exits?
You stated quite clearly that you don’t believe Paul’s Numbers and actually threatened him here on this site, in a pathetic effort to intimidate so that he would stop posting them.
So why are you commenting on what you feel his current numbers are implying?
At least try to consistent as so far you are showing that you have no honour, or any shred of integrity, pond scum.
Threatened him? Stop lying, moron.
And because you’re clearly too dumb to understand I’ll explain it to you again. The numbers are taken at a moment in time before the end of the day, so sales are almost always under reported as a result. However, that moment in time is generally consistent from day to day which makes the daily change in inventory more reliable than the absolute numbers of sales stated.
Let me know if you ever manage grasp this quite basic observation.
Please let me know when you stop lying tirade. Your past posts intimidating Paul have been recorded here, ass hat. I’ll wait.
Or maybe it’s a reading comprehension issue and you can’t be helped?
The New West Pier Fire is officially arson!
So we have the sea to sky gondola sabotaged on the same day and West Coast Forest Fires in the US started by arsonists (just like the ones started in Australia, blamed on climate change until they caught a non-white arsonist and the media went quiet.)
Classic strategic destabilization, courtesy of Soros Funded Antifa types and other useful idiots.
The Oregon forest fires ramped up just as antifa/blm disappeared from Portland after 100 days of rioting. Sheer coincidence.
And what the fuck is this? Are you kidding me?
I think the gondola sabotage is being done by eco-extremists who think they’re saving the mountain from tourists.
or the suits at hedge fund HQ have figured out a way to game the system (again) and somehow make more money as a result of yet another tragedy. with this conveniently occurring in the dark of night one week after labour day, what is one supposed to believe?
Do you far right lunatics have a succession plan for when Soros croaks? It’s not like you would let your idiotic conspiracy theories die with him.
Claiming it’s not Soros is a conspiracy theory, and you should by the last one spreading these. Sigh…
*be
Is it going to be Gates? Who gets to decide? Will you clowns hold a vote, or will you just wait for instructions from the king of the far right lunatics?
Russian collusion!
Three year investigation!
LOL!!!
Listen globalist or useful low IQ idiot, I could care less which.
The documented and ongoing serious and true election interference is from Israel and their dual citizens and lobbyists living in the US. (See AIPAC for more info)
China is the other party conducting election inference and espionage with the Chinese Communist Party a key part of the globalist power structure.
You are Slavophobic and Russophobic and a true racist for bringing up and slandering Russia. Remember it was us Slavs who defeated Hitler and won WW2, also liberating China. You should be kissing our feet and asses…
The same globalists who financed Hitler and previous to that the Bolshevik Revolution, are funding the destruction of the United States and its cities.
Explain why they said not to talk about him or shut the fuck up, cunt.
Perhaps because there’s zero evidence for the bizarre claims being made by the far right, thus making it a certified crack pot conspiracy theory which deserves no air time?
Republicans need to start inhabiting the real world rather than attempting to hide behind dumb fantasies.
There are mountains of evidence about what Soros is doing funneling money into local elections, it’s even in mainstream publications, that’s why those two leftist bitches told him not to bring up Soros.
You know where there is zero evidence though? Bullshit conspiracy theories by the FAR LEFT like Russian collusion and Ukrainian quid pro quo.
Zero fucking evidence.
You want to admonish people here for what side they’re on? I will tell you motherfucker, anyone who is on your side is one sick, evil piece of shit.
Zero evidence aside from the impeachment of the president, you mean? And for the first time in history a member of his own party even voted to convict him. LOL. Of course the Mueller report found no evidence of collusion, so thank you for the strawman, but it still resulted in numerous indictments and convictions while also determining that the president himself likely obstructed the investigation a dozen or so times, itself another impeachable offence. The report also concluded that the Russian government “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion”. The president refused a sit-down interview with Mueller and his written answers consisted mainly of “I do not recall” so as not to perjure himself. A sure sign of innocence! Meanwhile Durham has yet to turn up anything useful, and even said himself that he’s unlikely… Read more »
Impeachment was NOT evidence of ANYTHING you god damned stupid mother fucker. And Romney doesn’t count as a Republican, he’s RINO trash like McStain.
Impeachment was a 100% partisan political ploy.
Worst of all, the evil Democrat cunts were putting all their time and resources into their stupid impeachment just as china virus was landing on their shores, they completely ignored the incoming threat. This is treason.
The rest of your ramblings are pure shit you worthless cocksucker.
Just shut the fuck up you embarrassment to humanity.
LOL, so angry.
Back to shrieking “treason” and “traitor” at anything that moves again are we?
You can’t debate for shit, my friend.
I just owned you evil motherfucker.
And I will own you every fucking time because you’re a worthless, commie race baiting piece of shit that sides with blm, antifa, china and democrats.
You owned me by shrieking like a deranged idiot while failing to refute any of my points?
Sure you did. Now tell me more about how Soros leaves piles of bricks to hurl for the protestors that he has bussed in. LOL.
Changing the subject as usual, toxic piece of shit.
Oh dear – Soros was the subject, or did your steroid-induced rage make you forget already?
Steroids?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
“ Durham has yet to turn up anything useful”.
DNI Ratcliffe took the entire senate judiciary committee into the SCIF yesterday to brief them on Durham probe.
Democrats are freaking out today calling for Durham to be investigated for political interference!
They signed a letter to the IG. Lol.
Payback is coming probably starting in a week or 2 and will probably go into next year.
Here is the piece of shit Soros himself on 60 minutes admitting posing as a Christian to escape the holocaust and watched people he knew being sent to death camps while he helped the nazis confiscate Jewish property.
Helped sell out his own people. All you need to know right there.
Steve Croft was stunned you could tell.
proper lnk.
SIDA is a fucking prick. Don’t know why Admin hasn’t banned him yet.
Nevertheless, this site will need a licence going forward to operate.
Right. Ban the person who calls out racism, bad bear math, and Oracle’s disinformation. That’s be great optics for this place.
Almost every blog bans trolls who spend the vast majority of their time insulting, berating and name calling just about every other poster.
For better or worse, this one is the exception, it lets scum like you have a voice.
I wouldn’t care one way or other if this platform could catch up to 1998 and actually provide an ignore feature that would allow me to make you disappear from my screen but that’s fucking wordpress for you.
VCI banned me and will delete ALL my comments, even this one soon enough. BUT SIDA IS ALLOWED TO SPEW HATE AND INTIMIDATION EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR YEARS ON END ON THIS BLOG!!!
Telling racists to go fuck themselves is not “spewing hate”, I’m sorry to inform you.
Pretty sure you’re responsible for the worst of the insults here, by quite a margin.
Display some self-awareness for once.
Yes, I am responsible for the worst insults here and ALL of them are directed at you and you only for obvious reasons.
Not real estate related
Just wanted to chime in with a big FUCK YOU to all of you! The Last Conservative is a pathetic joke! There are NO Conservatives in Metro Vancouver, period. The JK Rowling Fiasco demonstrates that. You will all pay the price of bad karma for your vile censorship of me. FUCK YOU YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCHES! You all deserve to go straight to hell!
Just don’t pretend you weren’t cautioned and warned. Posts like this are the reason for the ban hammer.
Another way you could have played your situation was to take a time out for a couple months and then come back and apologize for your behaviour. Going forward, you could have taken a hint and stayed on topic without lashing out at people. Maybe ________ would feel differently about your situation then.
You’re a good dad, Dave.
He doesn’t make it easy for us does he? If he had done the things I said above, I’d be the first to advocate that he be allowed to stay.
And maybe it’s not too late. MVCA, how about just quit acting like a douche? Say sorry to the owner here and everybody that you’ve attacked (meaning all of us), admit that you fucked up, drop the hate crime BS, take a break and promise that when you come back that you’ll be a new person.
The path is there, but only you can walk it.
My comments were on topic and were polite and respectful. They were deleted. Then I get pissed off and start swearing and you say that is why I am censored. No. You just can’t handle my point of view. WHy aren’t these guidelines posted for ALL to follow. Why is it just me who gets this treatment???
Everything I said about Kerry Jang, Little Mountain, Trump Tower, Joo Kim Tiah, etc. That was gold and you deleted it and it was not including any profanity. Why should I write good comments again, just to see them deleted all en masse. You even admitted it on the thread when I asked why my comments weren’t being deleted, even as yours was, I was wondering if VCI Admin was waiting to delete my comments all at once and you said yes they were. And lo and behold they were deleeted all at once. It will happen again and again. I AM DEDICATED TO GETTHING THIS BLOG SHUT DOWN! This is a fake forum for free speech where the convo is manipulated. SHAME ON YOU YOU FUCKER!
A better dad would stand up to racism wherever he sees it.
Yawn….
Yeah, we all know what sort of parent you would be.
Sigh….Another failed fishing expedition from the bitter troll.
I certainly would never abandon my kid like your dad did.
No, because they would leave you first.
False.
Well, it would be true had your wife not left before you had the chance to stain the planet with your offspring.
You can’t one single fucking thing right.
Just shut up and fuck off idiot, you’re embarrassing.
You should try that first sentence again. I can wait.
You have to resort to checking spelling and grammar when you’re owned.
Pathetic subhuman troll.
Really? Would you wait for a punch in the face too?
So you left first?
Geniuses…
“An experimental green housing project in a Chinese megacity promised prospective residents life in a “vertical forest”, with manicured gardens on every balcony.
All 826 apartments were sold out by April this year, according to the project’s estate agent, but instead of a modern eco-paradise, the towers look like the set of a desolate, post-apocalyptic film.”
“Only a handful of families have moved into Chengdu’s Qiyi City Forest Garden because of an infestation, state media have reported.”
It’s always hilariously ironic when the worlds worst infesters get infested themselves.
Like that locust invasion that hit china earlier in the year.
Spekusceptic approves of your vile racism.
(Good faith statement.)
Triggered!
You should know by now that nobody cares about your pet project (defending chinazis)..
SIDA approves of sexual exploitation. (Good faith statement.)
See how you choose to lash out rather than take the opportunity to speak out against racism?
It’s perfectly quite clear now which side you’re on.
Yawn….
Autoreply loser can’t help himself, LOL.
No idea what you’re babbling about clown.
LOL!
The fact that you autoreply to everything I write, of course! LOL.
False dichotomy. I can be against you and them…. I’m here to discuss RE, though.
Strange that you attack me and never them, though. As I say, you’ve made your position perfectly clear.
*eyeroll
Hey far left dirtbag, you have yet to speak out against Netflix’s blockbuster hit “Cuties”.
You’ve made your position perfectly clear that you’re pro pedophilia.
We know which side your on and it isn’t the one that has relations with those who can grow pubic hair.
*you’re
Deprived you again, shitstain.
LOL!
“Us and them.” You don’t get to set the narrative here or anywhere, understood?
Screenshot for my police report into hate speech on Vancouver Condo Info. Thanks for this. It’s important to be able to show that VCI continues to tolerate hate speech into the present day, while censoring my comments.
I have a feeling the police are already well acquainted with you.
No hate speech here so far….Canada claims to be about freedom of speech, and sometimes helps to bomb dictators abroad, for not having freedom of speech. (See Libya)
LOL, the far right really are about the dumbest, aren’t they?
The far left are the most evil.
Fuck off Mao.
Who’s far right? Your narrative doesn’t count.
If my comments qualify as hate speech, then BPOM’s use of the word “locusts” to refer to Chinese immigrants is a clear example of hate speech. My academic advisors agree with me on that. I have pointed out to them how this blog popularized the racial epthet “locusts”. It’s one of VCI’s biggest contributions to our local vernacular and it is totally hate speech and racist by postmodern leftist standards that rule the day. So if I am censored for my poinit of view, absolutely BPOM should not be allowed to use the word “locusts”. NO DOUBLE STANDARDS!
Not chinese immigrants in particular but all communist chinese in general.
That country is a cesspool of liars, thieves, cheaters and horrible manners.
Get your facts straight.
Why the bifurcation between T.O area and here? (Good faith question.)
“Vancouver market on the uptick, but worries persist”, Globe & Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-vancouver-market-on-the-uptick-but-worries-persist/
“In downtown Vancouver, the condo market has softened considerably, with prices coming down as more units come onto the market. And although the detached house market is robust, the number of houses for sale could increase once the people who took mortgage deferrals have to start paying again. If cash is tight, they might choose to unload their houses, increasing supply.”
FULL: In downtown Vancouver, the condo market has softened considerably, with prices coming down as more units come onto the market. And although the detached house market is robust, the number of houses for sale could increase once the people who took mortgage deferrals have to start paying again. If cash is tight, they might choose to unload their houses, increasing supply. The key word for the current state of the housing market is uncertainty. For renters and buyers alike, there are opportunities. It’s a market strangely robust in the midst of an economy battered by a pandemic. The British Columbia Real Estate Association released a report last week that said the trends under way are “very unusual.” August sales were the highest for that month since 2015 and prices are higher than they were prepandemic. Part of the reason… Read more »
N 293
PC 98
S 152
TI 13924
Doesn’t appear that ominous. More 49th parallel wheat sounds like an OK reasonable call. I’ve read over at Bloomberg that plowing rates are amazing, so you may as well keep plowing.
Only 21 net new and strong sales. That’s a wrap for the year. No correction. Let’s see inventory in six months.
Shhh, you’ll wake the troll.
You were already awake.