This is great news! I am a big supporter of laneway housing concepts having seen what some have been able to achieve for affordable living in small footprints. The biggest obstacle has always been city permits and getting those in power to see the solution. On the downside, these properties will only be permitted to [...]
Vancouver Approves Laneway Housing
Friday, October 31st, 2008False Creek North Plans Pass City Hall
Friday, October 31st, 2008This is cool. Very cool. Plans and schemes for what we will do with BC Place and the new art gallery have passed a city council vote. We’re getting a new retractable roof (to be closed 80% of the time?) and a new waterfront art gallery. We’re also getting some more mixed use towers (office [...]
Alda Pereira Opens her Home
Friday, October 31st, 2008Alda Pereira, the near ubiquitous designer for Vancouver interiors and the name given to one of Yaletown’s buildings, is interviewed by the Vancouver Sun today. Click this link to learn more about what she does in her own home: European style
Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Bubble?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008There’s an old adage that says a wise property investment is one which costs you no more than 100x the rent collected. Who said this and why I do not think anyone knows but it is so often repeated in books and seminars that it has been taken for truth by many. In Vancouver we [...]
Another Gorgeous Fall Day
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Another Gorgeous Fall Day, originally uploaded by agentwill. Hope you enjoyed it, too.
Holes in the Ground
Friday, October 24th, 2008Shannon Paterson has one of the busiest and maybe most depressing jobs over at CTV news these days. She gets to report on holes in the ground. Big holes. Holes that one day may have been worth up to $500 million but now lie as evidence that the market got way ahead of itself. Let [...]
What about You?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008You read this blog. You likely read many more. I have a simple question for you: Why? And a couple of follow ups: What are you looking for? What do you want to see/read? What does this and other sites do for you?
$503,977.23
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008You may wonder when looking at the asking prices of homes why they all seem to be such round numbers. Places asking $500,000, $745,000, or any such $XXX,000 number. Why not be more precise? When it comes to negotiating it turns out that having this round measuring stick for pricing may in fact be hurting [...]
Grey Day but Work Continues
Monday, October 20th, 2008Grey Day but Work Continues Originally uploaded by agentwill Despite rumours and such I can hear the hammering, sawing, and grinding from across False Creek of progress being made at Millennium Water. I can’t wait to see what it will become.
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