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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:15:31 +0000

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.

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:30:44 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:40:29 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:10:47 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:39:13 +0000

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!

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End of the year Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:01:59 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:15:34 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:53:32 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:19:56 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:41:20 +0000

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!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:23:23 +0000

It’s that time of the week again, here’s our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread! A few stories to kick off the chat:

-Metal thieves urban mining in Richmond
-Real Estate Agents in Cars
-Any new tax on non-resident buyers could be ‘disastrous’
-Bogus press release from housing activists
-Century 21 City View Realty license suspended
-Canadas banks brace for indirect exposure to Italian debt
-Canadian wage gains keep slipping
-Global housing bubble bust about half over
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend. Stay dry!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:01:11 +0000

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

-British Columbians think prices are unreasonable and a good investment
-British Columbians less likely to ever be mortgage free
-Vancouver market coming off of boil
-Prices in BC, more drops that increases
-Time to limit foreign buying in Vancouver?
-Plans for rental housing fall short
-Full size virtual tour
-Your grocery bill will keep rising
-US foreclosure crisis about half over
-Average American now must work two years beyond death

So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and see if you can do it without mentioning China. I dare you.

Have an excellent weekend!

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Friday Free-for-all! 11-11-11

The Pope — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:14:08 +0000

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

-650,000 Canadians couldn’t deal with small mortgage increase
-Metro Van new home prices flat in September
-BNN Video on risks in Canadian Housing
-Realtor says downsize to a condo now!
-Credit created out of thin air
-Coquitlam residents unhappy with highrise plan
-Foreign investors fuel Florida housing boom
-Gloomy outlook for China

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

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Vote

The Pope — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:35:53 +0000

If you live in and around Vancouver you probably know its election time. Voting day is on the 19th.

This is an open topic political thread. Who do you feel is best suited to lead this city and why?

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:01:42 +0000

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

-REBGV October Stat PDF
-Carney not complacent on debt and housing
-Here’s what half a mil will get you
-City urges speculators to cool it on Cambie
-Runawayscreaming on leaving the province
-Sellers file complaint on effective home inspector
-HK home sales fall over 50% in October
-N.B. stops accepting immigrants from China
-Harper predicts ‘cooler heads’ will prevail in Greece

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

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Friday Free-for-all

The Pope — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:15:29 +0000

Yessiree, it’s the end of another week. Let’s do our regular weekend news round up and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few stories to kick off the chat:

-Dramatic drop in Richmond new condo sales
-No post-Olympic tourist bump for BC
-58% of BC not saving for a rainy day
-Nearly half of Flagship for sale?
-Teranet index shows big bump for prices last August
-Revised real estate chart book
-Some appraisers grumble about Zoocasa estimates
-More protests over Chinese developer price drops
-US economy expanded at fastest pace in a year
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So what are you seeing out there? Post you news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:03:17 +0000

Yessir, another weekend in paradise! It’s the end of the week and you know what that means, it’s time for our regular news round up and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few stories to kick off the chat:

-Nice chunk of taxpayer money headed to BC!
-$100 million loss on Olympic Village?
-Green quits Little Mountain over “difference of opinion”
-15 Years of economic growth not trickling down
-Occupy Vancouver pretty laid back
-The pros and cons of being an absentee landlord
-Toronto house price growth could soon top Vancouver
-$500k: Buy a mansion get a US visa

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-y’all!

The Pope — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:01:07 +0000

Yup. It’s that time of the week again. Let’s do our regular end of the week news roundup and open topic discussion thread, yee-haw! Here’s a few stories to git y’all started:

-an ‘eduation’ about the reality of realty prices in other areas
-Go Tiny to go home
-We’re building more houses!
-The new prices, they go down?
-The Zuck will save our real estate market
-No retirement for you mom and dad
-It’s a buyers market!
-Sharp rise in US foreclosures

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

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Friday Free-for-all!

The Pope — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:16:59 +0000

It’s Friday and that means it’s time for the weekly news round up and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few recent stories to kick off the chat:

-Canada’s hidden housing bubble
-No longer the best place on earth?
-Ain’t gonna be no US style housing crash
-‘Cause their ain’t no housing bubble
-The sagging lease-hold market
-Victoria prices will keep on rising
-Canadian real estate chart book
-Record low interest rates don’t matter
-Chinese property boom getting wobbly
-Developers in China slash housing prices
-Rebalancing Chinese economy almost ‘impossible math’

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!

The Pope — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:21:49 +0000

it’s the end of another work week and that means it’s time for another weekend news roundup and open topic discussion thread. Here are a few recent links to kick off the chat:

-Vancouver housing bubble about to burst?
-No, intuition says prices are right
-24 reasons the Richmond market is on fire
-Real estate millionaires going broke?
-Metro Industrial space in demand
-Home resale prices hit record high back in July
-Poverty costing taxpayers $24 billion a year
-Big rebound bet on US housing market
-How a Hawaiian Paradise became a ghost town

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!

The Pope — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:14:16 +0000

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

-got your 17k party hats ready?
-Center of the Universe located
-Bubble chasing off UBC staff and faculty?
-CREA: Nations housing market on ‘solid footing’
-One dollar luxury home fails to sell
-Home seller offers $1000 worth of booze to buyer
-are drunks the only buyers left?
-boomers navigate stormy markets

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!

The Pope — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:01:22 +0000

It’s the end of the week again, let’s do our regular weekend news round up and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-No housing bubble in Vancouver
-Canada’s northern tiger looks very much like a bubble
-Screw the scenery, I need to live
-Price changes vary sharply around BC
-Olympic village lures lookers with freebies
-Vancouver BC the 3rd worst dressed city in the world?
-CREA: housing market on solid footing
-Household debt leaves little room to maneuver
-Upbeat hiring climate predicted
-Gen X stymied by Boomers keeping jobs
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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!

The Pope — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:38:52 +0000

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

-BC tops nation in consumer debt
-BC deficit triples with HST rejection
-Big listings, few sales on Vancouvers westside
-More than half of Canadians live paycheque to paycheque
-Cops want racing luxury cars forfeited
-Conference board sees big shift in housing as boomers retire
-Xceed Mortgage posts $1.7 Million loss
-Low rates could spur mortgage change
-Tenants complain of leaky Surrey building
-Investors no longer find Bernanke stimulating?

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!

The Pope — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:01:17 +0000

It’s the end of another week, time for a long weekend and then it’s back to school and back to work. Let’s do our regular end of the week news roundup and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few links to kick off the chat:

-We’re NUMBER THREE!!
-Does ‘liveable’ mean ‘unaffordable’?
-Home prices US vs Canada
-Bubble, Bubble, There’s a Bubble.
-BC Conservatives propose phasing out PTT
-Housing industry waiting for HST plan B
-CIC launches consultation on immigration mix
-Canada.. the incredible shrinking economy?
-Court ordered sales at the high end
-Canadians can’t save an extra $25 a week?
-More in BC carrying debt into retirement
-32% of Canadians counting on Lotto win for retirement
-The two-tier US housing market

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!

The Pope — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:01:29 +0000

It’s summer and it’s the end of another work week, what’s not to like? Friday is the day we do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic discussion thread for the weekend, so let’s hop to it! Here are a few recent stories to kick off the chat:

-BCREA predicts lower prices in 2012
-Debunking the drivers of Vancouver RE prices
-Vancouver prices never go down
-Mayor blames wealthy foreigners
-What’s happening in Richmond?
-Paulb starts tracking market trend data by area
-BC Ferries proposed service cuts to pay for executive salaries
-BC Casinos to shift away from money laundering services
-The end of free money for Wall Street?
-Buying now cheaper than renting in 37 of 50 US cities

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

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