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Friday Free-for-all! September 23, 2016

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It’s the end of another work week and that means it’s time for another Friday Free-for-all!

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

–Mother of all stock market corrections
–Alternative lending on the rise
–OECD slashes Canadian outlook
–Poloz signals delay in rate increase
–Empty home tax
–Variable rates will soar
–Sold as percentage of inventory data
–Canadians buying ‘too much car’
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

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Friday (afternoon) Free-for-all!

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It’s that time of the week again!

Let’s 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:

–Ottawa making housing fix a top priority
–Thanks for the help
–Impact of housing on economy
–Fake assets
–Goodbye Vancouver
–Empty Land
–Household debt bigger than GDP
–Average Weekly Inventory chart
–Why the borrowing binge will end badly
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

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Friday Free-for-all! September 9th 2016

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It’s the end of another work week and Friday is here, that means it’s time for another Friday Free-for-all!

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

–Refinance before it’s too late
–More bubble warnings
–The purple hill of 2016
–Toronto is the new Vancouver
–Buying high or low?
–A collapse in the blogger bubble
–Affordability vs supply
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

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Friday Free-for-all! Sept. 2nd 2016

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It’s the end of another work week and that means it’s time for another Friday free-for-all here on VCI.

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:

–Some recent stats
–Rentals, the other disaster
–For rent, van with no toilet
–Scotiabank: Buyer tax the right move
–Mansion prices drop
–Prices to dip 10%
–Thousands of job losses
–What 3 mill gets you in Scottsdale
–Vancouver & Toronto go in different directions
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

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Friday Free-for-all! August 26th 2016

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It’s the end of another work week and that means it’s time for another Friday Free-for-all!

This is our regularly scheduled 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:

–Royal Bank ‘closely monitoring’ housing
–CIBC can weather housing crash up to 30%
–Pumping Tax Free Zones
–Metro house sales plummet
–Home sales down 63% in first weeks of August
–Foreign buyer tax in four charts
–How can Vancouverites afford to buy?
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!