Wow! I honestly did not see this day coming…it must have been the last 6 years of writing about it consistently…they are listening to me! Or not. I simultaneously had both the reactions “They finally did something about this” and “This seems heavy handed.” as I heard more about these changes. (more…)
On my website, since mortgages are so BORING for people to read about, and subjectively painful to enter into, most of what I write about centres around two things:
This article is about point number 2. But its a new slant on it! (more…)
If you think back ten years ago, did you find housing overpriced? Looking back, if you did not buy a home then or since, do you wish you had? If you did buy, aren’t you glad you did?
If you look at the market today, do you find housing overpriced? If you put yourself in your shoes 10 years in the future, do you think you would wish you had bought a home today? What do you think is going to change the trend of housing becoming more expensive?
Stop waiting for tomorrow. Get in today. If it’s a home that is less than ideal, it’s still a start towards your dream home. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be.
If you own a home that is less than ideal, maybe you want to look at making a change. Expensive homes increase in price faster than less expensive homes do, so moving up is advantageous for you.
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If you have followed my blog for a while, I think you would understand me saying that I find it difficult
to come up with interesting original material to provide. I mean…I am selling getting into the biggest DEBT that most people will ever likely incur, and I talk about a local housing market that appears out of control but actually is NOT.
The product I offer is intangible, and is the “nasty” part of a transaction that people otherwise enjoy. No one goes out shopping to purchase that hot sexy mortgage, there is no Gucci or Prada branded mortgages I can put in the window that anyone will be interested in buying. There’s an idea to justify a higher interest rate! “Yeah, I paid double what everyone else is paying, but it’s so worth it, the paper that I signed was so soft and smooth, and the quality of the printer was amazing!”
Anyways, rather than just write my grievances with the current situation, I tried to think differently. (more…)
There is a video on the BNN website in which they interview an economist with Mortgage Brokers Canada. He talks about the hot housing market in Toronto (which is the second hottest home market in Canada to Vancouver) among other things. One of the primary aspects of the hot market that he talks about is that low interest rates are driving price increases. The foreign ownership issue is raised and he stated even 5% of buyers being foreign buyers would affect the market significantly also. (I suspect that the number is much higher, but no one has firm data on this.) (more…)
Last month was the highest selling April on record for Metro Vancouver.*
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Metro Vancouver home sales eclipsed 5,000 in March for the first time on record.
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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) is pleased to introduce Dan Morrison as its 2016/2017 president. Morrison replaces outgoing President Darcy McLeod.
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I was meeting with my business development manager for Canadian Home Income Plan (CHIP) about their reverse mortgage product today, and he shared with me an experience with a client of his bank that is at once shocking but also, unfortunately, not uncommon.
There is a private mortgage lender who advertises on the radio that did a mortgage for a client who was terminal with cancer. The mortgage amount was $500,000. Do you know how much the fees were? $65,000! That is insane! CHIP was able to take care of him in a way that he could enjoy his remaining days with his family in comfort, and provided a much more fair solution, but that is not really the point of the story. It is technically legal to charge those kinds of fees, but it does not make it fair, equitable or correct. (more…)
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) recognised two REALTORS® yesterday for their exemplary commitment to charity and community causes.
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