Canada’s property market, as we talked about in our post last week (The Market’s Flip-Flops), has been shaky as of late – and that’s understating the fact. With predictions of another market slump on the horizon, property investors are spinning their heads in circles to keep their eyes open for the right investment move. Problem […]
Some days are difficult. Others are even worse. Let’s face it, no matter how much you love your job, there’s always gonna be days that are tough to get through, whether it’s from having way too much to do, or having little to no motivation whatsoever. You know that anxious feeling like you don’t know […]
It seems the market analysis of the current North American real estate situation isn’t in agreement with anyone in particular. One day we’re hearing that everything’s doing better, but with some digging you can scratch beneath the hopefuls and figure out what’s really going on. The issue being that it appears nobody wants to accept what’s […]
Post-vacation season (aka Fall) tends to be dreary for most office and professional types as the days get shorter and the darkness literally closes in. There also seems to be a sentiment of borderline regret in terms of not taking full advantage of the great weather the past few months have delivered…but really, when IS […]
Unfortunately, no, we aren’t even close. BC, and quite possibly the rest of Canada, are presumably about to experience what economists are calling a double-dip recession, meaning that housing prices are going to drop once again, and this time in a very aggressive way. Despite being thought to have stabilized, the Canadian housing market is […]
Planet Earth – We have the technology…we can rebuilt it. We ran across an info-graphic today that really got our gears turning, so we’d like to share it with you to start off this blog post. This info-graphic inspired us to re-iterate a value we hold dear – sustainability. one of the key […]
And what a mouthful of an acronym that is. The Royal LePage National Sales Conference (RLPNSC) is taking place in Vancouver, BC in just under a month and we can’t wait to see you there. We’ll be accompanied by our associates EstateVue to bring you a fully-rounded and detailed real estate solution covering all of […]
The boomerang generation – a title freely used to describe most people who were born in the late 80’s and early 90’s, who are now in their 20’s, have gone to college or university, then moved straight back home. One of the main causes of this ‘boomerang generation’ phenomenon are the lack of available jobs […]
The battle against GMO’s rages on wildly as Monsanto plans on selling their genetically modified organisms, predominantly corn, on the fresh food market for the first time, sending environmental activists into a fury. Generally, Monsanto’s genetically modified corn doesn’t get as far as the shelf in your local grocery store and instead is sold to […]
Every once in a while we run into some houses that have been personalized, adjusted, tailored, or whatever else you’d like to call it, just a little bit too much to the owner’s liking. In fact, most of these “little changes” become a pretty “big deal” when you’re trying to sell your property. This is […]