Jennie Frizzo

Led by a growing number of young, single female buyers, "value-conscious" Canadians are helping to create a robust housing market, according to the Bank of Montreal's spring housing report.

First-time buyers being drawn into the market by low interest rates and affordable housing, are attracted to convenient, urban living, said analysts on a conference call Thursday to discuss the report.

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Renovation contractor Kenorah Construction & Design and home builder ParkLane Homes have earned the greatest number of finalist spots — 15 and 13, respectively - in the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association’s third annual Ovation Awards.

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The number of new listings for single family homes in North Vancouver for the month of March 2012 is 198 which is only down a mere -2% from March of last year. The number of new lsitings for attached real estate for the month of March was 971 which is down -10% from last year at this time. The number of new listings for condos for the month of March 2012 is 177 which is up 12.7% compared to l ...

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For the full statistics package from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver for the Month of March 2012 please follow this link:

http://www.rebgv.org/sites/default/files/201203-REBGV-Stats-Package-for-Media.pdf

In West Vancouver there were 105 sales recorded for the month of March 2012. This number is down -44.1% from the 188 sales that occured in March 2011. Although the numbers are down quite significantly for this year, if we compare them to 2010 they are quite similar. This illustrates how hot the real estate market was last year and the high volume that was traded.

The number of new listings ...

Overseas investors are snapping up properties in Canada's largest cities, driving up prices and pushing ordinary Canadians out of the housing market, observers say.

Real estate experts call it the "new reality," and the high price paid for a north Toronto bungalow is the latest evidence.

This month, the three-bedroom bungalow, circa the 1960s and without much updating, sold for $421,800 over ...

Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver releases Sales Statistics for February 2012

http://www.realtorlink.ca/portal/server.pt/document/3371017/rebgv_stats_package%2C_february_2012_pdf

For February 2012 there were a total of 209 sales in North Vancouver. This number is down 9.9% from February 2011 which had 232 sales at it's month end. Although this may apprear to be a downwards trend in market activity, sales are still quite high when comparing February of 2010 which had 172 sales.

A similar trend has followed with new listings. There were 411 new listings activated in Fe ...

For the month of February 2012 there were a total of 94 sales in West Vancouver. This number is down 18.3% from February 2011 which had 115 sales. Although this may appear to be a downwards trend in activity, sales are still relatively high when looking farther back to February of 2010 which had 82 sales.

New listings for West Vancouver real estate has followed a similar trend. For February ...