The kitchen has always been a scary place when it comes to packing up for a move. Between the heavy pots and pans, the fragile glasses and dishes, and the sharp cutlery, packing up items can be a nightmare. This goes the same for the pantry itself since you’re packing up items that may expire Continue Reading »
Original Article was found here: How to Pack Up Your Kitchen Pantry When Moving
For many people, a home office isn’t just a place to store all the paperwork that goes with owning a house, nor is it a junk room for dumping all the stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else. The new home offices are just that—fully functional offices that people use on a daily basis as they Continue Reading »
Original Article was found here: How to Pack Up and Move Your Home Office
When a family moves into a new home, it can be a major transition. Whether that home is across town or across the country, there are many changes that a family must get used to including new neighbors, stores, communities, and, especially, schools. While adults are usually very good about changing and being able to Continue Reading »
Original Article was found here: Ease Your Children Into Moving to a New Home
For the first time in the Vancouver area, more than 5,000 homes have sold in a single month. A total of 5,173 residential properties were sold in the region in March, marking a 27.4-per-cent increase over March 2015 and a 24-per-cent increase over February 2016, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. “March […]
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/affordability/home+sales+record+march+vancouver+area/11828954/story.html
Results from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s first-ever rental turnover survey in Metro Vancouver points to a migration of rental demand from the pricier centre to less-expensive suburbs.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/cmhc+tracks+apartment+turnover+vancouver+rental/11816534/story.html
Vancouver-area seniors tend to be viewed as equity-rich fat cats with paid-off homes to finance their post-employment years. As the myth goes, these folks sell their West Side homes for millions, then relocate to stylish condos or retreats in Sechelt or Qualicum Beach while having enough left over to dole out downpayments on housing for their children.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/barbara+yaffe+seniors+ready+retire+still+facing/11816061/story.html
Vancouver’s heritage homes seem to be disappearing as rapidly as the original forest they replaced.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/english+tudor+heritage+home+from+1922+could+face/11814131/story.html
Across North America, city governments and neighbourhood activists are worried that the exploding popularly of Airbnb is hurting neighbourhoods and putting a strain on rental housing stock, as landlords choose the lucrative option of short-term rentals over long-term tenants.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/airbnb+popularity+cities+around+world+edge/11809016/story.html
Buyers from China comprised about one-third of purchases of Vancouver’s hot housing market in 2015, according to “back of the envelope calculations” by National Bank of Canada. Chinese investors spent about $12.7 billion on real estate in Vancouver in 2015, or 33 percent of its $38.5 billion in total sales, according to a note […]
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/bc2035/chinese+investors+third+vancouver+homes+national+bank/11804486/story.html
Although the numbers are higher in other countries, an estimated forty percent of Canadian marriages end in divorce. Because of this high number, it is sometimes necessary to take a truthful, albeit scary, look at the realities of moving out of your family home and starting over as a single parent. It’s not just something Continue Reading »
Original Article was found here: Single Parents Guide to Moving Out (and Moving On…)
Vancouver architects David and Susan Scott have woven their individual practices into one entity so successfully that judges on the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s selection panel couldn’t pick one over the other to bestow its 2016 Young Architect Award upon.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/vancouver+architects+love+craft+construction+helps/11802742/story.html
The federal Liberal government has jumped back into funding affordable housing initiatives, including programs to spur rental housing construction and bolster rent supplements.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/federal+government+restarts+housing+programs+with/11802625/story.html
Unless a buyer put a gun to your head and forced you to sell at a lavish profit, you don’t get to complain about it because if you see it as a problem, you are part of that problem, says Vancouver Sun columnist Pete McMartin.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/pete+mcmartin+other+side+housing+coin/11802616/story.html
Burnaby is putting up a forest of high-rise residential towers up to 65 storeys tall over the next 25 years, far outstripping anything Vancouver is contemplating.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/burnaby+outpaces+vancouver+tower+development/11800119/story.html
The B.C. government has pledged to crack down on “shady” realtors involved in shadow flipping in the hot property market with new regulations that would see any profits gained by realtors returned to the seller.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/christy+clark+pledges+crackdown+shadow+flipping/11794400/story.html
British Columbia’s Opposition New Democrats are attempting to tackle the province’s housing affordability crisis with a series of private member’s bills that includes a two-per-cent speculation tax.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/proposes+speculation+tackle+housing+affordability/11792062/story.html
Imagine this for a moment: You’re five years old and men you’ve never seen before come to your house and take away all of your belongings. Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, right? Well, many adults take moving day for granted as just something that has to be done, but for little children it can Continue Reading »
Original Article was found here: Top Five Moving Tips for Parents
An advisory group looking into the practices of British Columbia real estate agents will examine whether the current rules are protecting consumers and public confidence.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/real+estate+advisory+group+looking+into+shadow/11787156/story.html
Vancouver homebuyers increasingly encounter real estate bidding wars, some of them artfully engineered by realtors who list properties at prices below their market value. We have all heard about the way this works. An open house is held at an attractively priced property. Prospective buyers are advised as to when offers will be accepted — at which point, in a hot market like Vancouver’s, competitive bidding usually takes place, with several potential buyers offering to pay more than the property’s asking price. Sometimes as much as $1 million more.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/barbara+yaffe+when+real+estate+bidding+wars+sales/11786990/story.html
Vancouver’s real estate market has been very good to Amanda. She’s not a licensed realtor, but buying and selling property is her full-time job. She started about eight years ago as an unlicensed “wholesaler” in Vancouver.
from http://www.vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/dark+side+vancouver+real+estate+market+unlicensed/11771397/story.html
