When buying a Condo or Townhouse in Downtown Vancouver do the common area facilities such as gyms, pools, saunas, rooms for entertaining etc. come into your consideration?
These facilities are very handy as you do not have to leave your building to get a workout or a swim in. It is a convenience that should not be overlooked.
On the other hand they are often underutiliz ...
In Real Estate it is not always easy to help a home buyer find a
Metro Vancouver home, townhouse or condo for sale that meets all
their needs and wants.
I recently helped a client do just that, but one of the needs
proved trickier to meet than it should have been.
This person has a dog, ...
As a Vancouver Realtor helping home buyers I am often dependent on other Realtors accommodating our showing requests. It is my role to advocate for my clients and work co operatively with other Realtors to ensure my clients needs are met.
This past week I had home buyers flying into Vancouver to look at Vancouver condos for sale. They had a limited time and we wanted ...
Revently I had the opportunity to speak to a group of Vancouver Realtors on the topic of 'Why Market Online'.
An interesting part of the content I shared was who is online and what they are doing while online.
The following information is from The Nielson Company, who may be better known for their TV ratings. They also measure and report on internet users.
A lot of ...
I often, ok always, talk about using Social Networking as a business tool. It is not limited to this and I would like to highlight some people from the local Real Estate industry who have used it to help others.
Peter Kerfalas of Ethos Developments used Twitter exclusively to seek out and organize a ...
Nothing to do with Vancouver Real Estate. Just a short simple post sharing my beliefs about voting.
Are you going to vote?
Why not?
Even if you spoil your ballot, get out and vote.
Plenty of people have and continue to die for the right to vote for government all around the world, don't take it for granted.
Don't let your opinion of politicians & their accomplishments (or lack there of) ...
I just finished uploading this Condo for sale, 201 1228 MARINASIDE Crescent, Vancouver West, British Columbia
Why is there virtually no mobile Real Estate search available for Canadian Real Estate?
Mobile phone technology opens up a whole new arena to Vancouver Realtors to market homes for sale.
There is an ever increasing ownership of mobile smart phone devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry allowing users to utilize the internet where ever they are.
In Canada there have ...
Concord Pacific's condo development Cosmo will have parking spaces that will allow condo residents to plug in and charge electric cars.
Vancouver's Cosmo will have 20% of its parking stalls equipped to charge electric cars, each stall will cost an additional $5000.
The City of ...
A recent experience with a Metro
Vancouver Realtor made me wonder who does set the customer service
standards expected of Realtors?
I called a Realtor requesting to show their listing at a particular
time, to which they curtly replied "Sure but you will have to pick
up and drop off the keys from my office".
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