Kerry Gold, The Globe & Mail, March 19, 2021
One year after the pandemic began, and despite initial worries, it turned out to be one of the real-estate industry’s best years.
“There are bidding wars on many homes throughout the Lower Mainland, on the Island, and even in the Kootenays,” says Rudy Nielsen, an industry veteran who owns Landcor Data Corporation, Niho Land & Cattle Company and LandQuest Realty Corp.
Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, February 10, 2021
Evidence is mounting that tales about more city dwellers rushing to buy rural real estate during the pandemic are more than anecdotal.
In the past eight months, more than 62,000 Vancouver residents searched for property through Landquest Realty, a New Westminster company that specializes in B.C. rural and recreation real estate, part of an avalanche of 458,000 new users who have jammed the site since June 2020.
Rudy Nielsen, The Scrivener, Fall 2019
I first got my real estate licence in 1964 at the age of 24.
In those days, it wasn’t common be a real estate agent at a young age because most REALTORS® were a lot older and more established. Despite that, I never gave up; the situation provided me even more determination to be successful.
My father was a trapper-turned businessman in Northern BC and I always knew I wanted to be in the real estate business,
Susan Lazaruk, Vancouver Sun, Aug 26, 2017
If you’re hoping to strike up a friendship with a neighbour who has a backyard pool, your chances improve if you live in Kelowna, West Vancouver or Surrey.
Those cities have the greatest number of single family dwellings with their own backyard pools, according to numbers provided to Postmedia News by Landcor Data Corp., using B.C. Assessment Authority information.
By Frank O’Brien, Business in Vancouver, Aug. 9, 2017
The benchmark price of a detached house in Metro Vancouver is now $1.3 million and a typical condominium apartment is $600,000, so $50,000 will buy less than 80 square feet of housing in the city.
But it is much different in the recreational market of vast British Columbia, where a day’s drive can lead to lakefront acreages for less than $40,000,
Frank O’Brien & Geoff Kirbyson, Western Investor, July 19, 2017
The benchmark price of a detached house in Metro Vancouver is now $1.3 million and a typical condominium apartment is $600,000, so $50,000 will buy less than 80 square feet of housing in the city.
But it is much different in the recreational market of vast British Columbia, where a day’s drive can lead to lakefront acreages for less than $40,000,
Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, July 11, 2017
The average price for a detached house in Metro Vancouver is now $1.54 million and the average condo apartment is selling for $524,600, according to Landcor Data Corp. You need a large down payment – starting at $100,000 – to make even condo rental payments work at covering your costs, which must include a property manager.
But there is a quieter,
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2017
The air of Vancouver real estate is rarefied for ordinary purchasers, but prominent philanthropists Joseph and Rosalie Segal are reaching for the top of the luxury market with a $63-million asking price for their palatial Point Grey mansion.
That price would set a record for Metro Vancouver, according to a statement from Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.
The Segals’ home isn’t listed on the real estate industry’s Multiple Listing Service,
Kerry Gold, The Globe and Mail, Jun. 09, 2017
Last year, a series of government interventions was implemented to cool Metro Vancouver’s runaway property market and increase affordability. And yet, the market is hotter than ever, and the gap between house prices and incomes is growing wider in unexpected parts of the region.
Greater Vancouver reached a record benchmark price of $967,500 – an 8.8-per-cent increase from the year before.
Paul Henderson, Abbotsford News, June 7, 2017
Chilliwack may be the last bastion of single-family home affordability in the Lower Mainland from here to Vancouver Island.
A report on housing affordability issued June 6 by Vancity of 30 municipalities found the ability for families to purchase homes in the suburban areas outside Vancouver is getting worse, but Chilliwack is still one of the most affordable.
“Buyers looking for affordable housing options used to be able to look to municipalities around Vancouver to find affordable options,” said Ryan McKinley,