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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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% [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]





