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The world is going through some interesting times: a hangover from the boom of loose credit, house prices dropping in many cities, inflationary pressures and skyrocketing energy prices. This is our open-topic weekend post to discuss anything related to economics and real estate on the global and local level. Here are a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

- June 2008: Vancouver house prices drop slightly.
- Real estate inventory continues to grow
- Screen Actors Guild strike threat looms.
- Kevin Falcon cares about your convenience
- Victoria: love the weather, not the street people
- Americans move to Canada (less than vice-versa)
- Canadians work more for less
- Canadians no longer spending like ‘drunken sailors‘
- Loonie predicted to drop
- Canada from a Hawaiian perspective
- Will gas prices kill the suburbs?

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

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Friday means open-topic time here at Vancouvercondo.info, so lets do a round up of some stories from the week:

-National housing boom has come to an end
-Rental restrictions dampen market
-Speculator tax a bad idea?
-No easy fix for affordable housing
-Investing for stagflation
-Oil above $140 a barrel
-How will gas prices affect real estate?
-Selling in a changing market: be patient
-Downtown is the place to be!
-BOC Speech on real estate & monetary policy
-Rising rates could slow US recovery

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

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The weekend is nearly here so lets do our regular end of the week news round-up and open topic discussion. Here are a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

-BC housing market ‘on pause‘
-Gas and food costs blamed for RE slowdown
-Assignment deals ‘still available‘
-Realtor fired for false statements
-Shaky markets make retirees nervous
-US trouble rains on our parade
-Hundreds indicted in US mortgage fraud
-UK house prices will fall by 30%
-Really, really, really easy credit
-Condo bust draws scams and squatters
-Brace for global stock and credit crash
-Write downs may reach $1.3 trillion

So what are you seeing out there? Post your news, links and anecdotes here and have a great weekend!

It’s Friday and that means open-topic discussion time on VancouverCondo.Info. Here are a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

- Vancouver prices stagnating or dropping?
- Planners want offices downtown
- Council Passes EcoDensity™ ©harter
- Oil makes everything more expensive
- Mortgage rates going up
- Sad outlook for forestry
- Difficult days ahead for Canadian banks
- Canada urged to save for a rainy day
- Bay st. surprised about inflation?
- Still paying more than Americans
- US lenders slash prices to dump foreclosures
- Britain enters nightmare of negative equity

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

It’s friday and that means it’s time for our weekly news roundup and open topic discussion for the weekend.  As I post this rain is falling against my window and it feels like its been gray and under 10 degrees for a week.  I am assured summer is still scheduled to begin in a couple of weeks.  In any case its the perfect weather to be stuck indoors in front of a computer - here’s a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

-BC: highest proportion of income on housing
-For Sale: $1,600,000 or best offer
-Lower mainland cities like to spend
-Real estate market returning to ‘normal levels‘
-Boomers own and owe more than ever before
-Sales sign super-stack challenge
-Mohican: shots from the bubblehood
-Cheap Calgarians
-Housing bust a boon for some renters
-US Records: foreclosures and low equity

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

note: any conversation on real estate or economics is allowed, please keep it civilized. when posting articles please only quote pertinent points and link to the original instead of pasting the entire article here. Thanks!

Every friday we do a weekly news link round up and have an open topic discussion. Here’s a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

- Man charged for craigslist rent scams
- BC only province to see increase in EI claims
- Robert Zoost the Super-Realtor
- Tips for first-time house sellers
- Bad week for Canada’s banks
- Do recessions cause a birth-dearth?
- UK follows US into housing bust

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

It’s open topic time here at VancouverCondo.info, here’s a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

- Homeowners face increasing financially strain
- Harper: Canadian economy in good shape
- Price Hikes starting to hurt
- Foreclosures can be jackpots
- Congresswoman walks away from mortgage
- Oops. I meant ‘forward’ not ‘reply all’!
- Largest ever US house price decline
- Flip this house. Please!
- Florida for sale.

So what are you seeing out there? Post your news, links and anecdotes here and have a great weekend!

It open-topic time, here are a few news stories to kick off the discussion:

- Rennies ‘simple solution‘ for affordability
- Greatest gangland on earth
- Home market flooded by sellers
- Woodwards redevelopment stumbles on
- Another blow for BC forestry industry
- Boom over, no bust predicted
- Home sales falling fast
- Canada, sucker nation
- RBC writedown only $855 Million
- Canadians invade Florida
- 9 foreclosures + bankruptcy = mistake
- Bernankes bubble laboratory

What are you seeing out there? Post your news, links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have a great weekend!

note: any conversation on real estate or economics is allowed, please keep it civilized. when posting articles please only quote pertinent points and link to the original instead of pasting the entire article here. Thanks!

It’s Friday! Thats the next best thing to the weekend and it also means it’s time for our weekly news round up:

-Condo supply growing faster than population
-~600 new REBGV listings in first week of May?
-Coco’s Things you may want to know
-Welcome to the wild west
-Whats our number one industry?
-It’s good news on the job front
-Canadian housing market cools in April
-Vancouver residents love condo investing
-Beware of home reno ripoffs
-Forestry demand to soar
-Foresters warned to expect more blood
-Canadians fleeing to cash?
-BC exports contract for 3rd year
-The booming bust-vulture industry
-Americans feel gloomy

How ’bout you? How are you feeling as we head into a beautiful spring weekend? What are you seeing out there in the streets? Post your news, links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have a great weekend!

note: any conversation on real estate or economics is allowed, please keep it civilized. when posting articles please only quote pertinent points and link to the original instead of pasting the entire article here. Thanks!

It’s time for our open-topic link round up from the past week - here’s a few stories to get us started:

-April REBGV listings grow dramatically
-Coco closes her daily economic news blog
-Caps owner has ‘no plans’ to build condos
-Coal Harbour is a weekend ghost-town
-Richmond RONA closing on Olympic tax hikes
-Forestry slump bites Prince George prices
-Live in a shipping container in Whistler
-Immigrants to Canada struggle financially
-Carney: ‘a lot of strength‘ in this economy
-Bank of Canada needs more power
-Soft landings are for the Moon
-US prices drop at fastest rate ever
-US foreclosures up 112%

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

update: The Sun finds some missing comments

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