Dale Mcgauran

IN THE FACE OF THE MEDIA

According to recent broadcasts by the media, the Canadian public are told to brace themselves for a real estate crash, along with a general market crash. I believe that we hold too much stake in our identification with the good ole U S of A. Major Canadian banks, economists, mortgage brokers...just a small list of Canada’s professionals all state that our market is NOTHING like the USA’s.  Here are a couple of examples of the differences:

1. Canadian financial institutions business and households have healthier balance sheets than those in the US.

2. Canadian

It’s a Buyer’s market!!! The Market has taken a full turn form a very active Sellers market over the last 3 years to a much slower Buyers market. We have seen many more listings coming on the market and over 40% less sales taking place from the same period last year.

As the market changes we need to be able to change along with it. This means being more educated on the changing market and unfortunately for Sellers it means being more reasonable with the list price of their homes. With so much competition out there homes are not selling for the same prices they could have last year, nor are they selling as fast.

North Vancouver Assignment & New Construction

Looking for an assignment or to purchase a home in a new construction building in North Vancouver? You need to take a look at www.buildingdigger.com  It has the latest up to date information on all North Vancouver Assignments and New Construction. You can view listings, pictures & floor plans.

 

Go to www.buildingdigger to start your search or click on the links below to go directly to the building of your choice.

 

Atrium West at 172 Victory Ship way

The Esplanade at 188 East Esplanade

Esplanade West at 168

For the latest Presales, Assignments, or Re-sales check out www.vancouverbesthomes.com. It’s a complete 1-stop Vancouver Real Estate website with lots of information for Sellers and Buyers. Keep checking for information on my new website dedicated specifically to First Time Home Buyers. It should be up and running in the next 2 weeks. For more information on Downtown, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Burnaby Real Estate contact Tyler Gump.

 

It’s all about RESPECT!!!!!

Technical smarts will only get you so far in the Real Estate business. Ethics and morals are the other part. In the small world of Real Estate you needs to be careful of whose toes you step on, you never know when it will come back and bite you. Realtors base their livelihood on cooperation with other Realtors; showings, offers and closing deals. We need to be able to trust our fellow colleague that they are not only looking out for the best interests of their client, but as well the interests of our industry.

For the most part we are perceived as “low life’s” but it’s really

Assignment Frustration........

Real Estate developers seem to be trying to pull the wool over the eyes of too many innocent home buyers. When a home buyer goes into a pre-sale office to buy a new home – whether for the purpose of moving in or an investment – the developer (or their representatives) will tell you whatever it takes to make the sale, including “no problem with assignments”. Read the disclosure statement closely - I’m sure there is a line that reads something like “no assignments will be permitted without the written consent of the developer”. This is for the protection of the developer - they

I had an open house on the weekend at 207-1935 W 1st Av (Cypress & 1st) in Kitsilano.  It was incredible - there were about 60 groups on each day at the open house.  I have never had such a turnout for an open house.

We were accepting offers on this listing on Sunday evening and we had 7 offers - all above asking.  We accepted an offer at $488,000 which made my sellers very happy.  I want to thank all of the realtors and their clients that presented offers - we were extremely grateful.

 Needless to say, it was a wonderful listing and the location doesn't get much better for Kits!  It was staged by

Our very own Deep Cove, North Vancouver Manual Osborne-Paradis has been doing so well in his recent races. 

Manny placed 3rd in the Jan 20th Val D'Isere, France, World Cup alpine ski race for Downhill and he took home a 9th place finish in the Feb 11 World Championships in Are, Sweden for Downhill.

'Val D'Isere was the second podium of Manny's career, the first being his second place finish in the downhill at the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart earlier this season'.- Ski Racing Canada, Feb 2007

All your hard work is paying off Manny, we are so proud to support you!

Make sure you check out www.manualracing.com

I just finished uploading this Condo, 939 EXPO Blvd, Vancouver West British Columbia

Spectacular view of the city & harbour from every room in this 2 bedroom & a den unit. Built by Concord Pacific, it also has a balcony & 2 bath. Great indoor fa cilities including pool, sauna & exercise room. First showing Nov. 26, Sunday

I went to see some agent open houses in Downtown Vancouver this morning. I saw 3 new listings at 988 Richards St. in the Tribeca Lofts building in Yaletown. I thought that they were a bit overpriced for their size, but they did have some interesting floor plans. I personally like the loft style home, and I think that these suites will sell well. I however didn’t like the exposed concrete walls, I think that they might look better if the exposed concrete interior walls were finished or at least painted.