Patricia Houlihan

Yeah!!! Dual Agency takes a hit!  Buyers recognize need for proper representation.

While this has nothing to do with Vancouver real estate, I think it is of interest to most people involved in real estate transactions.

People who know me know that I am a firm believer in buyers and sellers having their own agents except in very exceptional circumstances.  I think that given that the buyer wa ...

Here in BC, 2011 was another strong, stable year for the housing market as solid domestic demand and positive demographic shifts continued to buoy both prices and sales. The biggest gains were seen in the 5 municipalities of Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, and White Rock. These 5 key markets averaged detached home price gains of roughly 20% in 2011. The remainder of municipalit ...

The Greater Vancouver housing market saw relatively typical home sale and listing activity in November.

With the recent defeat of the HST (to be implemented in March 2013), I have received some questions about how this will affect the real estate market. The short answer is: there will be a minimal effect, and some people will win, while others will lose.

While we can prognosticate about how these changes will affect the market, the government has yet to come up with a set of transition rules ...

For years I have heard people say Deep Cove is the wettest place to be-I don't agree (I think most of the North Shore is equally wet-without necessarily being equally beautiful) but I always respond explaining that it rains the same number of days just a little harder and it is much greener and bluer as it is surrounded by ocean and mountains.  In this CBC clip, they admit there is no real ev ...

With a sales-to-active property listings ratio of 15 per cent, the Greater Vancouver housing market continues to hover at the lower end of a balanced market and has been trending in that direction over the past five months.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales of detached, attached and apartment properties on the region’s Multiple Listing ...

2011 has been the tale of two real estate markets, as mainland Chinese buyers influence some areas and asset classes while ignoring others altogether. The biggest beneficiaries of the influx of Chinese immigrants have been Vancouver and Richmond, and to a lesser extent, Burnaby, White Rock, and West Vancouver. Many areas of these cities have seen their single family home prices increase 20+% ...