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It’s Friday again and that means it’s time for our regular end of the week news roundup and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Property investor, definitely keep your day job
-Mortgage pullback hints of housing crisis
-Ottawa leans on banks to tighten lending
-Canadas housing market: look out below
-Flaherty ‘concerned’ over mortgage lending
-Canada Gov exposure to mortgage lending raising alarm
-Is this what Januarys housing report looks like?
-Underused labour and pending housing bubble a problem for Canada
-US 30 year locked in mortgages hit new record low
-China limits foreigners housing mortgages

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

On a side note we’re still beta testing VancouverPeak.com as a forum replacement. It will likely replace the old VCI forum soon, so you if you’re a forum user here you may want to take a look at how it works over there. That site is registration by invite only, but if you registered for an account here before the end of January you’re probably already registered there.

VancouverPeak.com has a lot of functionality that is lacking in the current forums including uploading of txt, xls and other file formats. In addition to the forums, you can create discussion groups and new forums there and edit documents in each group.. this is similar to a wiki functionality, but with a more user friendly editing interface.

Try it out, feedback is welcome.

It’s that time of the week again! Lets do our regular friday news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend. Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-Prediction: The Canadian Housing Market will Crash
-Household borrowing surge driven by most indebted
-Boomers ‘punch drunk’ on debt
-Canadian home prices fall for first time since fall, 2010
-Either Windsor or Edmonton has the most affordable market
-Canadas job market in bad shape
-Property taxes on the rise
-$100 hot dog, get it while it’s hot.
-US banks face margin pressure from fed rates
-US new home sales worst ever in fall 2011
-A real estate downturn down under?
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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! Lets do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic economic discussion thread. Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-No retirement savings? No problem!
-Big sale on Granville, hoping for wealthy Chinese buyers
-Tax assessments hit Vancouverites hard
-Carneys low rates yield more houses than machines
-REBGV inventory rocketing at start of the year
-West Van and Richmond have highest child poverty levels
-Questions and Answers
-One does not..

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

It’s the end of another week and that means it’s time for our weekend news wrap up and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-Condo markets in Toronto and Vancouver at risk
-Vancouver 2011 market update video
-What $1.8 million gets you in Arkansas and Vancouver
-Nine wonderful bubbles
-Condo risk bubbles up
-Royal LePage says banks are wrong, prices will not drop in 2012
-Bernanke saw ‘relatively soft landing’ in 2006
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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, lets do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend. Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-11,000 units for sale on the fifth day of the year
-Is Toronto hotter than Vancouver?
-Fire Damage: When due diligence isn’t enough
-Residents gloomy about BC economy in 2012
-Assessments generate range of emotion
-Income gap widest in the west
-Homeowners willing to compromise a bit
-Vast majority of Canadians believe country is in a recession
-TD predicts trouble for BC real estate

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

It’s not only that time of the week, it’s that time of the year. The end is upon us. Let’s bid a farewell to 2011 and say hello to 2012. This is our regular end of the week news round up and open topic thread, hope you’ve all had a terrific year and have an even better New Year.

-We’ll add story links here later.

What are you seeing out there as the year draws to a close? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

Ho-ho-ho. It’s that time of the week again, lets do our end of the week news round up and see who’s been naughty and nice. Here are a few links to kick off the Holiday chatter:

-TD forecasting housing ‘correction’
-Microloft probably too small for Santa
-Everybody wants out of Trump Towers
-Victoria safe from bubble as prices drop
-Canadas housing boom in lucky 13th year
-Consumer confidence needs to do some last minute shopping
-BC economy not too hot, not too cold
-Real Estate speculators in ‘China’s Hawaii’ get coal in stocking

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

It’s the end of another work week and the holidays are drawing near.  Let’s do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic thread for the weekend, here are a few stories to kick off the chat:

-RE/Max agent sells all personal property, predicts housing crash
-Mark Carney understands the problem
-Main street is the million dollar line
-Mark Carney speaketh the truth
-China boom to bust: 35% price drop
-Vancouverites are water hogs?
-US realtors had trouble counting for five years
-The most dismal place on earth?

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! Lets do our end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend. Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-BOC warns condo boom could be ending
-Euro crisis puts Canada at risk
-Jesse on the BOC over at Housing Analysis
-Two of the ten richest postal codes are in Vancouver
-We have the poorest postal code too, yay diversity!
-Low income housing at OV comes with high water bills
-CIBC economist warns global slowdown of ‘Biblical scale’

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

It’s that time o’ the week again and that means it’s time for our regular end of the week news roundup and open topic thread. Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Mortgage debt growth slows
-BC has highest consumer debt
-How to pay back $1.6 billion HST cash
-Trouble at Pantages
-BC families squeezed in economic vice
-Four out of five workers want a different job
-Three out of four in BC want a different government
-Housing bubble discussion on CBC radio
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!