Real Estate Sales Still Rising

A year ago, developers were putting projects on ice, and sales in Metro Vancouver’s resale housing market dropped to 924 transactions in December, half of what they were in December 2007. “It was only a year ago that many in our industry were canceling Christmas parties just out of principle,” “[December 2008] was a very [...]

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Home inspection remains a buyer-beware environment

In April 2009 the provincial government implemented a requirement for home and property inspectors to be licensed with Consumer Protection B.C. to bring a measure of order to a previously unregulated industry. Licensing requires inspectors to be members of one of three organizations that administer training and sets ethical standards and standards of practice for [...]

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