Agent Will

I hear that a lot.  “I want to be in there first” means that the buyer wants to be an insider.  They want to be ahead of everyone else.  I’ve posted about the developer’s seemingly endless classification of buyers before.  They have the insiders otherwise known as “friends and family” usually comprised of those involved […]

Oh boy!  Another development two actually) goes into receivership.  Chandler Developments H+H (downtown Vancouver) and Garden City (Richmond) have run out of money and will be taken over by the becoming ubiquitous Bowra Group (who just took over Sofia).
Not good news… but not entirely unexpected.  I am not going to focus on the failure […]

The Sophia, a project by The Eden Group has been canceled with 85% completed. What? Yup. This is a mess. It’s not the first project canceled by this developer, nor the first project canceled near completion, but it is surprising to see a relatively medium-sized project in such a high demand […]

A new Kitsilano project is about to go on sale in the Granville Island area. VIP (Very Interested Parties, I assume because every VIP event I’ve been to neither gave me the impression that I was Important or a Person, but maybe this one will be different) Sales will start on February 16th (this […]

Flip. It’s got such a negative connotation to it nowadays since the housing collapse in the US rules our Canadian airwaves. Where once people were proud to be flippers they are now shunned by the remaining public. People who would find opportunities in homes priced below market and then improve them for […]

If you haven’t seen it then please click this link and watch the video from CBC Marketplace - What you should know before you agree to buy a condo
Wendy Mesley delved deeply into the art of selling, practices by marketers, and behaviours of buyers and sellers of pre-construction condos recently on CBC’s award-winning show, Marketplace. […]