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May 17, 2013

Bells and Whistles

The airwaves of the internet have graced us with yet another inspiring concept that has compelled us to write this little piece for you. It [...]

May 10, 2013

Kelowna Luxury Market Best In Canada

Original Article via Castanet Kelowna found itself in elite company Tuesday, when in the space of one hour, top realtors from nine of the world’s most [...]

Apr 9, 2013

Personalized Professionalism

During our recent sessions of crawling the internet, we seem to encounter more and more ‘lifechanging’ pieces of advice being thrown around to try and [...]

Mar 8, 2013

Will Housing Become A Luxury?

Everybody right now is complaining that there’s too many houses on the market; which is true. There is certainly a bit of a general market [...]

Feb 26, 2013

We’re Experiencing Some Turbulence

Though the United States are reporting their Q4 as having the strongest quarterly growth in over seven years, it seems that we aren’t so lucky. Canadian [...]

Feb 15, 2013

RE/MAX Western Canada Was A Blast!

We’d love to extend a ‘Thank you’ to all those who came and paid us a visit at the RE/MAX Western Canada conference this past [...]

Feb 8, 2013

Sizzling Marketing

An article released by the National Post is bringing a particular amount of attention to the world of real estate marketing. A Calgary, AB, based real [...]

Jan 28, 2013

Stop Forcing It!

One of the main issues with the market right now (besides it’s obviously ‘flattened’ state) is that people can’t seem to come to terms with [...]

Jan 3, 2013

Starting 2013 The Right Way

The end of the world never came, so here we are back to the grind at the start of what we’d like to hope will [...]

Nov 29, 2012

Market Slump Contributes to Recovery

You’d think that the market being down in the dumps would be something to worry about, but according to new theories put forth by several economists [...]

Nov 19, 2012

Collaborative Recovery

A short while ago we talked about how the real estate’s market recovery will more likely than not depend on full societal collaboration and participation [...]

Nov 9, 2012

To Stabilize We Must Equalize

Speculations around market recovery are many. The desolate state in which the property market resides is remaining stagnant, with fragments of measurable recovery being made. [...]

Sep 7, 2012

Are We There Yet? The Long Road To Recovery

Unfortunately, no, we aren’t even close. BC, and quite possibly the rest of Canada, are presumably about to experience what economists are calling a double-dip [...]

Aug 23, 2012

Boomerang Benefits

The boomerang generation – a title freely used to describe most people who were born in the late 80′s and early 90′s, who are now [...]

Aug 16, 2012

Home Improvement Breakdown

Every once in a while we run into some houses that have been personalized, adjusted, tailored, or whatever else you’d like to call it, just [...]

Aug 9, 2012

Here We Go Again

As it turns out, the housing market is reportedly stabilizing as we, among many others, have been talking about for the past couple months. The [...]

Jul 6, 2012

Real Estate Agents Bails on the Market

Just when you’ve seen everything in real estate, an agent steps in and gives you something to think about. Ken Roy, a Vancouver real estate [...]

Jun 29, 2012

Vacation Homes: The Resurgence

It’s no mystery by now that the property market has been…questionable…since the middle of the past decade, and is only just starting to finally sort [...]

Jun 22, 2012

Celebrity house flipper settles down

Diane Keaton, actress and house flipper extraordinaire, has finally chosen a home to settle down in. Breaking her normal habit of buying homes that need [...]

May 30, 2012

NAR Owns the Block

NAR now officially owns every building on the block on which they operate off Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, after purchasing the last remaining non-NAR [...]

May 17, 2012

Wages Are Up, Prices Are Down

The National Association of Realtors have released results of a survey revealing interesting details. The survey’s results concluded that in 2011 there was a 2.3% [...]

May 3, 2012

Facebook’s Impact on Real Estate

Palo Alto, California, is seeing some very substantial activity in their real estate market as a result of Facebook’s impending IPO (Initial Public Offering). Huge [...]

Apr 17, 2012

Rough Seas Ahead?

There has been speculation, talks, meetings, discussions (whatever they may call them) about changes occurring in Canadian real estate as of late. Notably, two major [...]

Apr 13, 2012

Cut Down on Paper

Many wonder how we can start to cut down on paper with all the faxes, manuals, receipts, invoices, memos, and post-its floating around our offices [...]

Mar 30, 2012

Live in a Shipping Container

A new type of home is making its way into society’s awareness which, although a regular polygon, is quite irregular. Shipping containers, once only used [...]

Mar 22, 2012

Vancouver’s New Direction

Earlier this year, the coastal city of Vancouver, BC, was donned the title of the 2nd most expensive city in the world, just under Hong [...]

Mar 2, 2012

Vancouver Hotels Get a Social Reno

Thirteen hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are getting renovated to transform the buildings into social housing, costing the federal and provincial governments a total of [...]

Feb 21, 2012

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 [...]

Feb 8, 2012

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 [...]

Jan 19, 2012

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 [...]

Dec 13, 2011

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 [...]

Dec 6, 2011

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, [...]

Nov 24, 2011

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 [...]

Nov 10, 2011

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 [...]

Nov 4, 2011

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, [...]

Oct 28, 2011

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 [...]

Oct 20, 2011

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 [...]

Aug 17, 2011

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 [...]

Aug 12, 2011

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 [...]

Aug 10, 2011

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 [...]