with Boffo’s Sales and Marketing Director By Susan M. Boyce Long celebrated as one of the world's most livable cities, Metro Vancouver has become a poster child for the joys of high density, condominium living. Experts routinely travel from around the globe to gain inspiration and expertise from our elegant concrete-and-glass towers and dynamic urban hubs. So it should come as no surprise that...[ read more ]
By Susan Boyce One glance at the urban Metro Vancouver landscape, and it’s clear this is a city that celebrates condominium living. But if you think condo automatically equates to compact, it’s time to take a closer look at an emerging trend — condominium homes designed with two, three, and sometimes even more bedrooms, and which offer a new view on exceptional finishings. According to Karen West, sales and marketing director...[ read more ]
By Kerry Gold When a real estate agent invited me for a tour of developer Boffo Development’s new luxury downtown project called Artemisia, I assumed the buyers would be the same foreign clients that are driving so much of Vancouver’s high-end market. Not so, said agent Ben Amzaleg, who’s selling the remaining units of the 21-unit townhouse and condo project...[ read more ]
By Cameron McNeill Lots of reasons to be optimistic about The 2014 BC Housing Market. Recently MAC Marketing Solutions published ‘MAC Intel’, an exciting new way to understand the many statistics that affect Metro Vancouver’s housing market. It also provides an outlook into the upcoming year, summarizing significant macro and micro indicators, in simple to understand infographics - a great way to start some meaningful dialogue. We’ve included the statistics on...[ read more ]
Vancouver housing market springs back to life. After a prolonged slide in sales and prices, the Vancouver housing market has swung from “buyers” status to “balanced”, according to a new report from BMO Economics on Canada’s major housing markets. The report titled “Canadian Housing Update: Tale of Four Cities” examines the state of the housing markets in Canada’s four largest cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal...[ read more ]
By Susan M Boyce It’s the New Year, a time when it’s tradition to plan, dream and predict. This year, as industry watchers and insiders throughout the Lower Mainland spend some time gazing into the proverbial crystal ball, an underlying theme of gentle but solid stability and growth for our local real estate market is emerging — more of the same but a little bit...[ read more ]
By Susan M Boyce Consistently ranked among the world’s favourite places to live, Metro Vancouver is a metropolitan centre many aspire to emulate. Blessed with a temperate climate, trend-setting architecture, and abundant outdoor recreation, Vancouver just keeps getting better. “As a city, we’re becoming ever more refined — ‘shinier’ and more truly a cosmopolitan city of the world,” says Tracie McTavish, president of Rennie Marketing Systems....[ read more ]
By Anne McMullin, President and CEO, Urban Development Institute 2013 forecast: Another business-as-usual year for housing in BC and Metro Vancouver. About a year ago, in January 2012, I read an article in Maclean's Magazine entitled What happens when Canada's housing bubble pops? "The signs of a bubble are unequivocal," the author wrote. A year later, the same magazine released another...[ read more ]
