Vancouver Condo Info

Bull! Bull! Bull! had a question in yesterdays comment section, but as usual it was quickly voted down.

Not to worry, we’ll highlight it here:

@vancouvercondo.info
@VMD

there is always a lull in posts during xmas. that lull would provide you a good opportunity to retire from the vancouver bear scene.

most people stop posting during the holidays. all you have to do is not start again. thus you, and this blog would simply fade away.

it seems like a dignified to end your mission. you were wrong. that’s ok. just accept it and fade away into the winter sunset. VHB has already done it. maybe your time is coming too…

Not sure why this was also addressed to VMD, but what do you think? Are you readers getting tired of the Vancouver real estate market yet?

Should we set the site on fire and walk off into the sunset?  As suggested we could just shut down for the holidays and never come back.

The only thing that gives us pause is that this commenter also seems to desire rain over dry cold weather. Sorry, can’t agree with that one!

But what do the rest of you think?  This site is getting long in the tooth and hey, there really has been no dramatic house price crash yet.  Does the current situation prove we’re wrong?  It’s only been 19 months since the peak of house prices here and the theoretical buyer of a 2009 condo has only lost $35k.

Time to call it quits?

Hey!

If you’ve been keeping track of the days in the work week you know what time it is – Friday Free For All Time!

This is when we do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend.  Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Rent Vs Buy in BC
-Rent Vs Buy south of there
-Blame Canadas Big Bubble
-Toll the border?
-Abandoned homes up for grabs?
-Realtor Hunger Index
-Sunshine Coast Stats
-London asks UK for foreign buyer tax
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So what are you seeing out there?  Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

It’s that time of the week again!  This time, we’re going to use the assistance of commentor Snake who posted most of these links.

Thanks Snake and everyone else who contributed links.

But as a general reminder, if you post more than one or two links your comment will get held up in moderation. Inconvenient yes, but better than getting inundated with spam links.

Ok! On to the links:

-Most Over And Undervalued Markets
-Market overvalued, but crash worries ease
-7 Remarkable Numbers From Canada’s Housing Market
-Carney To Stop Mortgage Funding Scheme
-Housing Bubble? Canada’s Top Banking Regulator Refuses To Say
-Vancouver Real Estate Canada’s Least Affordable: Report
-How much house can you handle?
-Home affordability worsens, new report shows
-The Chase: Toronto couple’s search for a $650,000 house
-Goldman Sachs recommends shorting CAD$
-Babies ‘R’ Expensive
-Angry in Whistler
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

We’re a little late and lacking with this posting.

Please cut us some slack,  we were replacing our doorknobs with levers and got trapped in the bathroom.

-links will end up here

But what are you seeing out there?  Post your news links,  thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

(please limit external links to one per comment to keep your contribution from being held up in moderation)

Have you struggled with doorknobs?

Then you will be delighted with this story.

City Hall is doing away with doorknobs in the building code and starting next march no new building will be permitted to install doorknobs.

But what about freedom we hear you say!

Fear not, you’ll be able to put those knobs back on if you so desire:

Will Johnston, the former Vancouver chief building inspector who wrote the changes in consultation with the building industry, doesn’t see this as the inevitable death of the doorknob because the rules aren’t retroactive. People can also still buy doorknobs and put them back on lever handle-equipped houses.

Read the full article over in the Vancouver Sun.

Hey, it’s that time of the week again!

Friday Free-for-all time!

This is when we do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend.  Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Canadian house prices flatten
-Is it really non-mortgage debt?
-Surrey discovers murphy beds
-Zero % loans for suckers?
-HPI & Teranet Disconnect?
-Burnaby grows up
-Jim will intervene
-A major correction?
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

Remember when the area of False Creek that houses the Olympic Village was an semi-industrial wasteland?

Then we all pitched in and built an enormous number of high end condos at taxpayer expense.

Now everything is awesome.

…With the exception of a few problems.

It’s a busy Vancouver neighbourhood, that according to residents is riddled with problems reminiscent of the Downtown Eastside.

Police have been called to one building 215 times since May and that is more than 30 times a month, more than one call every day.

On Friday a cab driver was robbed in broad daylight and threatened with a needle.

The Olympic Village was marketed to families, retirees and young professionals. Some social housing was always on the table but condo owners say they did not bargain for this.

“I’ve seen an unfortunate drop in the cleanliness in the area because of random pets that people have,” says one resident. “There’s definitely a lot of garbage that has been left on the street, and graffiti, some people sleep on the stoops outdoors.”

“It’s become quite strange.”

Read the full article here.

What’s the time?

It’s Free-for-all time!

If this is friday that means it’s time for our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend.

Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-A $29.6 Million price drop?
-Beijing hunts for RE dirty money
-1/2 mil in crack town?
-T dot condo glut
-Financial advice
-Bad financial advice?
-Bad traffic, world class like LA
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

Wake up!

Grab some coffee and some left-over halloween candy, it’s Free-for-all time!

This is our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend.

Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Ready to count BOC out of rate hike?
-Consumer confidence falling
-‘red mitten’ benefit from winter games
-Flaherty to give market a talking to
-Housing Analysis construction activity
-Buying Genworth?
-Preparing for a stock market correction
-Can we have some accurate data?
-The foreclosure cup
-Where’s the next property bubble?
-Best places to retire
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

It’s that time of the week again!

Time for our end of the week news roundup on open topic discussion thread for the weekend – Friday Free-for-all time!

Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-BOC rate stance affect on housing
-Burnaby couple wants to pay higher tax
-Variable mortgages are safe again
-The five largest housing bubbles
-Bear motivators
-Ownership good or bad for economy?
-Vancouver Island investors fear loss
-How many Victoria listings are foreclosures?
-Ottawa condo surplus

So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!