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Me and West Jasper Place – In The Press

October 19, 2009 News
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Back in the spring I was contacted by  friend and an Editor for Canadian Real Estate Magazine who was writing a column on the Edmonton neighbourhood of West Jasper Place. that’s a neighborhood I’m very familar with, and between Brent and I, we were able to answer her questions. I’d mentioned this before, but CRE [...]

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A Friend Inside Toronto Real Estate

September 17, 2009 News

Brian Persaud, who has contributed to this blog several times, landed a job as the host of Rogers TV’s show Inside Toronto Real Estate. The show’s description: Inside Toronto Real Estate is devoted to answering questions about mortgages, property values, legal issues and everything you need to know before and after you sign on the [...]

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Link-o-Ramma for Aug 8

August 8, 2009 News

Here’s some great stuff from around the blogosphere. I’ve heard sounds about bidding wars and markets heating up, in Toronto in particular. I can tell you that I got a call from my Realtor in Kelowna who had a flood of calls this morning for our unit here. Wade Graham’s Top 5 Real Estate Investment [...]

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BC’s HST Threatens Housing Recovery

July 30, 2009 News

REIN put out a press release on Monday regarding BC’s decision to move from a split 5/7% GST/PST to a harmonized 13% HST. The big concern is now there are several items which were not subject to HST will now become taxable. This includes real estate. “What this means is that the new sales tax [...]

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Almost Out of the Recession and Growing

July 23, 2009 News

The Bank of Canada released the July Monetary Policy Report. Straight from the mouth of Mark Carney: The Bank has long expected that economic growth in Canada would resume in the second half of this year and pick up in 2010. Indeed, growth in Canada should resume this quarter. The dynamics of the recovery projected [...]

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Are Canadian investors ready for 10% GDP growth?

July 22, 2009 News

There was an interesting article in the Globe last week referring to Cheryl King’s (Merrill Lynch)  comments on a report from the Bank of Canada. nvestors should brace themselves for explosive economic growth in the coming quarters as trade with the United States rebounds, Merrill Lynch said Tuesday. Economist Sheryl King said the latest Bank [...]

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Real Estate Link RoundUp – March 3rd 2009

March 3, 2009 News

Here’s a selection of the news I’ve collected in the last little while. It either gets tagged in my RSS reader or in my Delicious bookmarks. Bank of Canada drops prime another 50 basis points BofC did what we expected and cut prime by half a percent. It was nice to see the banks follow [...]

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