Housing Tax Breaks in B.C.
In British Columbia, we have a harmonized provincial and federal taxation system also known as the HST. However, this taxation system, after being implemented without [...]
Winner Winner, Chicken ______
EstateVue is all about connecting with people (or pretending to like the for PR’s sake). So when connecting with our clients (and potential clients) we [...]
You Are Now a Master of Real Estate!
Calling all aspiring/current real estate professionals! As of today, there is officially an education center offering a Master of Real Estate Degree Program! Yes, you [...]
Real Estate at the Superbowl
After 21 years of waiting for this industry to make its splash on the coveted Super Bowl adspace, our prayers have been answered (okay, might [...]
WOW! Houses: The Fresh Princess of Bel-Air
Most of us remember the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and the neighborhood of Bel Air where a young Will Smith “sat on his throne”. [...]
Blog Series, Part 7: Wanna Give It All You’ve Got?
If you’ve gone through the list up until now and established that you’ve mastered every tip and trick… first of all, congratulations. Secondly, if you’re [...]
2011 Brought Some BIG Change
Yesterday the Council on Tall Buildings and urban Habitat released A Year in Review: Trends of 2011, a report that shows skyscraper completion has increased [...]
Blog Series, Part 6: So What About Social Media?
So by now you’ve hopefully ticked off some essentials and added extras: great website, fabulous pictures, maybe even a blog. If you’re interested in going [...]
Agent Tips
Over the past little while it seems as though we keep throwing pieces of advice or insight into posts without really allowing these posts to [...]
Blog Series, Part 5: Get Blogging!
What will make you stand out and distinguish yourself as an active player in the online world of real estate? The website is nice yes, [...]
Happy New Year!
We hope that everyone’s holiday vacations (or not) were enjoyable and that you are attacking 2012 with some rested spirits and fresh ideas! It’s amazing [...]
Blog Series, Part 4: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It doesn’t take an expert to distinguish a good website from a bad one. In fact, those who are the least technology-capable will be the [...]
Hot and Cold
In Canada and the United States, we are seeing a very negative trend in the market, and this is not set to improve until well [...]
Blog Series, Part 3: Streamline Your Website
Assuming you have a website, and you get a top-quality firm to host it, your only job is maintaining it and making sure the content [...]
A “Homey” Present
Christmas is only 10 days away, which means that it’s about due for a post related to everyone’s (well, almost everyone) favourite holiday. Have you [...]
Blog Series, Part 2: Those Precious Photos
Think of it as the gateway to your listing. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good photograph. If a homebuyer is entrusting you [...]
Blog Series, Part 1: Got A Niche?
Real estate is your business, so let’s not detract from your ability to buy and sell any kind of home. However, if you have found [...]
Floating House: Take 2
In one of our previous blog posts, we took a look at a floating house that was constructed in Dubai. Well, as it turns out, [...]
New Blog Series Coming Up
For the following weeks we will be (on top of our other postings) releasing a series of blog posts on how to create an effective [...]
#Winning @NARAnnual
What a Blast! We would like to start off thanking all of you for your support and participation up to and including the great weekend [...]
Home Wrecker
In the realm of real-estate, there are always going to be properties that will be difficult to sell. This being said, amazing homes are also [...]
Getting Digital
Yesterday we did a posting about the importance of being savvy in the way of social media, digital marketing, and all around being “with it”. [...]
A Piece of Advice
Some days we come at you with news, others we have some gossip, maybe some cool architecture, but today we have some advice for you [...]
Everything But The Kitchen Sink
This post honestly is a big jumble of everything we found interesting going on in the real-estate world as of late. A theme or general [...]
Bargain Shopping
Over time, people run into great deals in every industry. For those of you who specialize in real-estate, there are a few pretty crazy deals [...]
Optimization
The question people ask themselves time and time again is how they can gain more distance with their website or other digital marketing. Take it [...]
Tasting Success
Our searches came back with a relatively unexpected theme this week. Whether they were stories of personal achievements or ways to develop your own means, [...]
Making The Best Of It
We realize that the fall can be a slow time as a realtor. The weather turns colder, people aren’t as open to cruising around looking [...]
The Top 3
It’s Friday, so what a better way to end the week than another Top 3 post right?! Here are the top three stories we found [...]
Spooky Houses
Halloween, probably the strangest celebrated day of the year, is just around the corner. To get everyone into a spooky mood, we’ve decided to go [...]
The Top 3
Today we’re trying to pick up the slack on an attempt at a Friday blog tradition: Top 3′s. Being relatively self explanatory, let’s get right [...]
We’re Back!
Apologies for having not been posting for the past little while, but we are back and ready to roll! We’ll try and stack this post [...]
For Your Reading Pleasure
Today we collected some articles that have weird concepts, but actually dole out some useful or interesting advice: Are you living in a grow op? [...]
Housing Price Breakdown by City
With CREA’s revised prediction that home prices will be in for an upturn in Canada (read up on it) we found the average home price [...]
The Next World’s Tallest Building
The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, will be getting a new big brother in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 568 feet bigger in [...]
Save Money This Summer, Part III: Do it for Free
We scoured the internet for some more money and energy savers. This time, we kept to very small changes that are easily doable and cost [...]
Vintage Article: Mortgage Relief
Below is an article from The Pittsburgh Press, printed on April 5th, 1933. The Roosevelt administration has gone to the root of the problem in [...]
The Top 3
Because it’s Friday and the dawn of yet another long weekend, we thought we would reward you with something that has the potential to become [...]
Is Real Estate Changing?
In the daily browse for updates in the real estate biz, we came upon an article in the Toronto Star about new real estate companies. [...]
An Upside Down Skyscraper?
We came across this post about an architecture graduate Stephen Sobl who designed a skyscraper to hang upside down from a concrete cantilever over the [...]
