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  • August 29, 2016
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  • Pricing

All the Leaves Are Brown and the Sky is Grey

And we are not talking about the weather!

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  • August 17, 2016
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The Age of Persuasion

We’ve long detested the media’s interference into our market place. Let’s face it, they don’t really report the news for the most part, they are out to sell papers and make headlines. Real Estate in Vancouver is the easiest accessible fodder for the masses. The media purposely stirs up the emotions of the public at large, and they are good at it. Not so say on occasion they do break a real story, but even then, the focus is on upsetting everybody. Funny how we all eat it up, but that’s a psychology blog

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  • July 29, 2016
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Vancouver's Real Estate Mania

On January 29th, 2016, Vancouver went crazy. The story of a humble 86-year-old home in Vancouver’s Point Grey neighbourhood was widely circulated by national media outlets and became a lightning rod for local frustration with skyrocketing property values. The “knockdown”, with its rotting walls and $2.4 million asking price, perfectly underscored how crazy the region’s overheated housing market had gotten. A month later, the house was sold for $80,000 above its asking price, rekindling public outrage. How did Vancouver reach this point? This infographic’s purpose is to connect the dots between Vancouver’s history of speculation, demographic waves, public policy, and external pressures that have all had a hand in shaping today’s hot real estate market in the city. Let’s start at the very beginning…

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  • November 18, 2015
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Inflammatory Vancouver Sun Story Stirs Up West Van Residents

I have written many times in this newsletter about how the “news” can make a REALTOR®’s ’ job harder than it already is. In my experience, reporters tend to report on the extreme and take “the story”, assuming there even is one, to a different level all-together, adding fuel to the already volatile public opinion. These last several weeks news has centered around Vancouver’s inflated real estate market. For good reason.

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