Derek Penner, Vancouver Sun, July 18, 2007
For someone who wants land, lots of land with starry skies above and doesn’t want to be fenced in, the Alexis Creek Ranch may be just the property.
It will have to be a rich someone, however, with a $23.5-million US list price for a working ranch of 104,000 hectares (4,000 hectares deeded and 100,000 acres of range leases) that begins about 80 km west of Williams Lake.
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, May 2, 2007
In the market for a waterfront cabin on Windermere Lake? It will set you back about $2.5 million, if you can find one, according to Re/Max Realty’s latest recreational property report, which makes the east Kootenays resort spot the most expensive recreational property in Canada.
The catch, added Invermere realtor Wende Brash, is that lakefront is extremely rare — maybe two or three 50- to 75-foot lots will sell in a year.
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, January 4, 2007
The number of real-estate millionaires in B.C.’s real estate market nearly doubled in 2006.
Data from the 2007 property assessments, crunched by Landcor Data Corp., shows that B.C. is home to 51,059 residential properties valued at more than $1 million.
That figure was 26,557 in 2006.
Most new paper millionaires own single-family houses. There are 38,027 such homes worth more than $1 million according to 2007 property assessments —
Derrick Penner , The Vancouver Sun, June 1, 2006
British Columbians dreaming of owning a waterfront cabin should prepare to go rustic, or be willing to pay $1 million.
Royal LePage’s 2006 recreational property report says the average lakefront property in B.C. is touching $996,000, the highest in Canada. The next highest is in Alberta, where lakefront property will set buyers back an average of $900,000. The national average is $380,507.
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, May 17, 2006
Albertans love British Columbia’s waterfront cabins, ski chalets and resort condominiums.
And with oil wealth filling their coffers, our neighbours went on a real estate shopping spree in 2005, snapping up 4,320 B.C. properties worth almost $1.2 billion, making them the biggest out-of-province influence on many markets.
The real estate research firm Landcor compiled the data on who is buying in B.C.,
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, January 5, 2006
When you can afford to buy a house along the waterfront in West Vancouver, or in the tonier parts of Vancouver’s Shaughnessy, or Whistler, you are rich.
Some of the people who already live in these areas are a little richer now, on paper at least, as the assessed value of their homes climbed by between 6.84 per cent and as much as 32.27 per cent during 2005.
Chad Skeleton, Vancouver Sun, January 4, 2006
Whistler homeowners saw the average value of their homes drop last year — making it one of the few places in the province to see property values decline in 2005, according to figures released by BC Assessment Tuesday.
An analysis of assessment figures by Landcor Data Corp. indicates the average single-family home in B.C. increased in value by 18.8 per cent over the past year,
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, December 6. 2005
Former premier Bill Vander Zalm owns a lakefront acreage near 100 Mile House that boasts peace and quiet, water views, forest shade and riding trails. Thursday, he’ll hand it over to the highest bidder.
Vander Zalm, in an interview, said he took over the 34-hectare parcel on Tatton Lake, north of 100 Mile House, in the late 1970s as partial payment for a business deal,
Larry Pynn, The Vancouver Sun, June 15, 2005
Clarice Perkins wanted weekend recreational property that would eventually transform into the perfect retirement home. Ed Witzke sought an investment alternative to leaky condos that would also enhance his quality of life. And Minnesotan Charles Hanson wanted an affordable escape from an America that had lost its way.
Meet the modern faces behind the current boom in recreational property in B.C.,
Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun, June 11, 2005
Ah, the good life. Sailing, golf, a good wine as the sun hits the yardarm and money in the bank when ennui settles in and Paris beckons.
For most people, it’s a fantasy. Something to dream about after handing over a toonie on a 6/49 ticket.
But for an increasing number of lucky people — people like Ben and Jean Hartman of Kelowna —