VANCOUVER — If you think Vancouver’s housing prices are overdue for a major price adjustment, tell that to the surging number of luxury home buyers. According to MLS statistics provided by Macdonald Realty, a record 375 homes — including nearly 50 condos — sold for over $3-million in 2010, breaking the record of 209 set in 2009 and more tha ...

The Royal Bank of Canada slashed residential mortgage rates by as much as 20 basis points on several of its offerings Tuesday.   The bank's special closed four- and five-year fixed rate offers have both been cut to 4.19%, a 15 bps and 10 bps change respectively. The special seven-year closed mortgage has been cut to 5.10%, down 20 bps.  < ...

Vancouver, BC – March 14, 2011. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in the province climbed 5 per cent in February from January 2011, on a seasonally adjusted basis. Compared to February of 2010, MLS® residential unit sales increased 8 per cen ...

RE/MAX Metro group of properties including RE/MAX Crest Realty Westside awarded Top Offices for sales volume in Canada and Worldwide in 2010!

OTTAWA — Canadians remain confident about the housing scene despite the prospect of a slowing market, according to survey results released Wednesday.   An annual home-ownership survey from Royal Bank of Canada showed 90 per cent of Canadians are confident in the country's real estate market. Among homeowners, 85 per cent feel they are doing a good or excellent jo ...

VANCOUVER - Low interest rates and steady employment growth are underpinning Canadian housing demand, but the market will soften later this year and into 2012, according to Scotiabank Group. Scotiabank expects sales volumes to edge down modestly in 2011, which places sales 15 per cent below the 2007 peak but in line with the 10-year average. B.C. housing s ...

When real estate entrepreneur Cam Good hosted a group of predominantly mainland Chinese investors this Wednesday at a White Rock condo showing, he was tapping into a market that's surging across much of Metro Vancouver. Good, president of The Key, a Vancouver-based sales and marketing firm that's focusing on a new wave of Chinese buyers, figures he's sold more tha ...

For a couple of weeks now, the media have been crawling around the site of the Olympic athletes’ village, a.k.a. the most infamous condominium project in the world. The Village on False Creek, as it’s been branded by über-real-estate marketer Bob Rennie, has provided the backdrop for stories looking back at the 2010 Winter Games on the occasion of their one-year a ...