Hello Vancouver Real Estate WatchersWe are now only 17 days away from the most exciting event to happen in Vancouver since Expo 1986....The 2010 Winter Olympics! Yeah!!!  With the Olympics comes tons of free events and concerts to entertain the 2.3 million people that will be coming to our great city of Vancouver and also the locals.  My Century 21 In Town Realty office is located right in th ...

Hello Everyone I was just reviewing my YouTube channel and wanted to share with everyone my highest viewed video.  It was one I did showcasing the new Shangri-La tower in Vancouver.  If you have any questions about this building or anything to do with Vancouver Real Estate please feel free to contact me. My YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamKnightRealty Pos ...

FLYING CAR A friend of mine came across a website the other day and passed onto me so I could take a look at what the future of transportation may become.  I go on the site and at first I thought it was some kind of joke but after reading through the information I am very excited to see if this does become the future of transportation.....THE FLYING CAR!!!!!  The company is call Terrafugia a ...

Today CMHC released it annual Housing Market forecast for Canada and it looks like for 2010 we are going to see prices continue to climb with interest rates also increasing.  Still a great time to Buy in Vancouver before we see interest rates climb.  For full details on this report from CMHC please click the link below. http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/odpub/esub/61500/61500_2009_Q04.pdf   If yo ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – November 3, 2009 – Strong demand has led to a steady rise in Greater Vancouver home prices compared to last year. Over the last 12 months, the MLSLink® Housing Price Index (HPI) benchmark price for all residential properties in Greater Vancouver increased 6.8 per cent to $553,702 from $518,668 in October 2008. "While home prices have been rising in 2009, they have not ecli ...

B.C. home prices could hit new highs in 2010   By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun The rebound in B.C. housing sales from the recession is the strongest on record, Central 1 Credit Union said Tuesday, predicting that property prices will regain all of their downturn losses by the end of this year. Central 1 chief economist Helmut Pastrick said the housing sales rebound has already surpasse ...

Province confirms new BC Place roof   A fixed-priced contract for the construction of a new, retractable roof on BC Place has been signed between the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) and PCL Constructors Canada Inc, announced Kevin Krueger, Minister of Tourism Culture and the Arts and David Podmore, PavCo chair, today.As first announced in May 2008, a new retractable roof will be built after ...

New home prices inch up in August in Metro Vancouver   By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun   METRO VANCOUVER — Metro Vancouver new-home prices edged up in August, according to Statistics Canada's latest measure of new-construction values, which helped lessen the dip that prices took during the housing downturn. Statistics Canada, in its latest new housing price index, found that prices tick ...

  B.C. real estate returning to ‘seller’s market’: report     By Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun   VANCOUVER — Rising sales and limited listings have returned Canada to a “seller’s market,” with total B.C. home sales this year up nearly seven per cent compared to 2008, according to a Global Real Estate Trends report released Thursday by Scotia Economics. “In terms ...