Housing starts rise 5.9% in December

OTTAWA — House construction rose more than expected in December as Canada's real estate market continued to show signs of recovery.   Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday the number of seasonally adjusted housing starts were up 5.9 per cent from November, to 174,500 units. Most economists had expected an increase of between 160,000 and 165,000 units in D ...
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807 583 BEACH Crescent, Vancouver West, British Columbia

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Vancouver home prices to jump another 7.2% in 2010: survey

VANCOUVER — Realty firm Royal LePage has come out of the gate of 2010 with the prediction that Metro Vancouver’s home prices will inflate another 7.2 per cent in 2010, so long as the expected mid-year rise in mortgage rates isn’t a dramatic spike. Royal LePage, in its forecast released Thursday, says that based on the momentum of the sales surge during the last ha ...
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Housing projected to remain strong

Canada's housing sector is expected to remain “unusually strong” in the first half of the year, then trend towards a more balanced market, Royal LePage, a leading real estate broker, said Thursday. Improving economic conditions and steady low interest rates will stoke demand as 2010 gets under way, but higher home prices coupled with expectat ...
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Canada's hot housing market to continue through mid-2010

OTTAWA — Canada has moved back into a seller's market and will remain "unusually strong" through the first half of 2010 as economic conditions improve and low interest rates spur demand, according to Royal LePage's Market Survey Forecast and House Price Survey released Thursday.   "The Canadian real estate market enters 2010 with considerable momentum from an un ...
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New urban mix

  For almost two decades, it was a black hole at the eastern entrance to Vancouver's downtown: a hulking empty building surrounded by vacant storefronts and drug dealers. But now, the former Woodward's department store – once the centre of gravity on a bustling commercial street – is coming back ...
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