I shot this video, about how voracious the Vancouver Real Estate market is, with Andrew Perkins who services Halifax Condos for sale a few months back. Andrew was visiting various cities in Western Canada and getting together with various Realtors to discuss market conditions in each city. Naturally we discussed Vancouver Real Estate.
Since we shot this video little has cha ...
In this episode Tom Everitt and Kye
Grace cover the following topics:
-the Real Estate market in Metro Vancouver is very busy with many
properties selling in under a week often for above asking, but does
anyone other then buyers and sellers know?
- Dual Agency, this is where one Realtor represents both the buyer
& seller with the same property...fraught with issues and ...
I have a client who has used the internet to do an amazing amount of research for various houses for sale she is considering buying.
One of the coolest things she has done though is using the recently available Google Maps Street View.
Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps that provides 360° panoramic views from a row of positions along the street in appr ...
A portion of the Vancouver Real Estate market includes inesting & renting the property to generate revenue. Granted it is difficult to do in based on our current market value versus current rents, it can happen with the right research and actions.
I have recently blogged about buying properties that are already tenanted and what your options and obligations are.
But what about buying a prop ...
My Vancouver Real Estate Blog now allows new features for readers to comment, share the post on Twitter or Facebook or add a video from Youtube.
It is a little tricky to use, it appears you need to log in to post a video but in reality you don't. As long as you have a webcam you have all you need!
I have shot an example below...
The comment system I am using is Intense Debate. IntenseDebat ...
As much as Vancouver has had a great fall, winter is coming!
We can not stop it but you can do a lot of things to make sure it doesn't impact your home's well being or your finances.
Take a half hour this long weekend and get out there and make sure you home is ready for the rain, snow, freezing and what ever else Mother Nature throws at us!
Here is a great ar ...
If you are considering renovating your current home prior to
selling or buying a fixer upper you will want to take serious look
at Build Direct.
Build Direct is
online building supply company offering immense value by
providing product direct from the manufacturer directly to you. Not
having a huge warehouse space and a traditional retail locations
allows them to p ...
If you are selling a tenanted property which the buyer will move into the contract requires the seller, on posession date, to hand over the home in essentially the same condition as when the home buyer viewed it.
If the tenant damages the property you the seller will be on the hook for the costs of the damages. The seller will have to reimburse the buyer, those costs ...
If for varying reasons it makes sense for the home sellers to rent back from the buyers after a real estate transaction there are two ways to go about this.
When the seller only needs to stay for a short time it makes sense to not enter into a tenancy agreement. Simply adjust the completion date and decide the compe ...
You are buying real estate that has a tenant who shall remain upon completion (rental property or house with a basement suite), what about the damage deposit?
The purchaser becomes responsible for a tenant's security deposit or pet damage deposit, even though the deposits were being held in trust by the seller. The seller may wish to ad ...