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It’s time for our end of the week news round up and open topic discussion! Here are a few stories I’ve noticed, feel free to comment on these or add your own links in the comment section:

- Canada in a recession?
- Brace for inflation
- The stink of corruption?
- Job Market better than it appears
- Dropping house prices increase inflation?
- Vancouver homeless rights complaint
- You’re richer than you think.
- BC: Number 1 in property crime
- Flaherty: No housing bubble in Canada
- Bay Area prices drop 27% in one year
- Pitfalls of a cheaper US market
- US Rate hike debated
- Merrill Lynch: 1 year, $19.2 billion lost

So what are you seeing out there? 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. Pasting a link will automatically create a clickable hot-link. Thanks!

Those of you that are regular visitors know what this means. The ‘free for all’ post is a general news round-up and open topic discussion we do every weekend. Here are a few stories I’ve noticed this week:

-zero down mortgages ‘have been quite popular‘
-price drops on the outskirts and upper end
-cracks in housing market spur new rules?
-new rules won’t deflate market
-buy now, save later
-house sales slow across North Shore
-lower mainland house prices start to sag
-building still booms in Vancouver
-REBGV listings continue rapid growth
-leaky condo crisis far from over
-Bank of Canada urged to raise interest rates
-new Canadian bankruptcy laws
-six months, 343,000 lost homes
-Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, too big to fail?
-Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares plummet

So what are you seeing out there? Post your thoughts, 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. Pasting a link will automatically create a clickable hot-link. Thanks!

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!

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. Pasting a link will automatically create a clickable hot-link. Thanks!

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!

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!

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!