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• Vancouver Island real estate window winterizing: Your Vancouver Island real estate windows should be winterized so that you do not get any cold air in through the windows during the winter months. By taking tips to winterize the windows, you can save on heating costs for your property. You do not have to sit idle as cold air ravages [...]
• Vancouver Island real estate and setting up your garden: Take a look at your Vancouver Island real estate property and figure out how you can make your garden look like a showplace. The first thing that you need to do is to sketch out what you want to do with your garden. Do you want to have a pond as the focal [...]
• Vancouver Island real estate and pave drives: To really add to the value of your Vancouver Island real estate, consider a pave driveway. Pave drives are all the rage right now and they are easy enough to do it yourself. You can actually put in your own pave drive using a number of different materials, as long as you get [...]

Canada Real Estate News

• Go Lyndon Go! Royal LePage agent Lyndon Rush to compete at Olympic Games in Whistler (February 17, 2010): Royal LePage is proud to support Lyndon Rush's Olympic medal aspirations. Lyndon, along with his father Jerry Rush are Royal LePage real estate agents based in Red Deer, Alberta. Lyndon Rush has had a winning streak over the past weeks which earned him a highly coveted spot on the four man and two man Canadian Olympic 2010 bobsleigh teams competing at the Whistler Sliding Center. Rush, along with Lascelles Brown will compete in the two man bobsleigh and will be joined by Chris LeBihan and David Bissett to compete in the four man bobsleigh. ...
• Canada’s Real Estate Market Expected to Continue Strong Gains into the First Half of 2010 (January 7, 2010): Canada’s residential real estate market is forecast to remain unusually strong through the first half of 2010 as economic conditions across the country improve and the stimulus impact of low interest rates continues to stoke demand, according to today’s Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast. As confidence in the recovery builds in early 2010, increases in average house price levels and overall market activity are expected to continue. The gradual erosion of affordability driven by higher house prices and the expected late-year modest upward movement of interest rates, together with an improvement in listings supply as confidence improves, are expected to bring the market back into balance in the second half of the year, when home price increases are expected to moderate. ...
• Economic Instability Number One Fear for Canadian Home Buyers: Royal LePage (December 15, 2009): As the Canadian real estate market continues to rebound from a steep decline a year ago brought on by the recession, home buyers remain nervous about the stability of the economy, according to a survey of 1,225 Royal LePage agents and brokers across Canada. However, few buyers think home prices will decline again. When asked to comment on the most common fears they are hearing from home buyers over the past three months, 38 percent of Royal LePage agents and brokers cited economic stability and related factors such as job security. 23 percent said home buyers fear they may not be able to sell their existing homes at the price they are hoping for, while 12 percent said buyers are hesitant because they believe prices have not yet hit the bottom of the cycle. Twenty percent of agents and brokers said they are not hearing any concerns from buyers. ...

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