Shirl Smith - Consultant

05/03/2023

People living in a strata with a 55-plus age limit will now be able to stay in their home, even if their family situation changes.

06/15/2022

Doesn't this make you want to be a Landlord!?

A North Vancouver landlord says he can’t understand why B.C.’s Residential Tenancy Office refused to let him formally evict his tenant after the man trashed his basement suite during a standoff with police last month and ended up in jail.

06/10/2022

Have you heard about this cash back program

The Make Your Move program from Rakuten Rewards Canada allows you to earn cash back on real estate transactions.

05/18/2022

We knew it was coming...

TORONTO — A wave of buyer's remorse is taking shape in several heated real estate markets, after housing prices started dropping and the number of sales slowed over the last two months. Realtors and lawyers in Toronto and Vancouver say they have noticed buyers looking at what options they have to ...

03/31/2022

Market behavior confirmed this but now what...

US real estate is in the first bubble since the Great Recession, and they might actually address it in time. In December, we revealed a little-known model from the Dallas branch of the US Federal Reserve showing US housing in a bubble. Central bank researchers maintain the model as an early warning....

02/27/2022

Do you agree?

John Pasalis, President of Realosophy Realty Inc., talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about buyer fatigue cooling Canada's housing market.___________...

12/14/2021

Who do you think should be held accountable for this? How would you feel if you owned a condo in the building ...

More than two years after finding out their building wasn’t built to code, dozens of condo owners in Surrey, B.C., are suing the people who built their tower for negligence.

12/12/2021

I'm seeing alot of these forecasts...

One of Canada’s “Big Six” banks is declaring next year to be “The Year of The Hike.” National Bank of Canada (NBC) chief strategist (and poet-in-residence) Warren Lovely is calling the first interest rate hike in just a few months. He sees the Bank of Canada (BoC) making its hike in March,...

11/16/2021

Have you heard...

Canadian investment in home construction is slipping and due entirely to housing. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows building construction investment fell in September. This data is mostly based on building permits, providing insight into construction sentiment. Home building isn’t doing so h...

11/10/2021

If you can't come to BC before you rent a home, condo or living space, please reach out to me so I can be your eyes and nothing like this happens to you or your family:

Tiffany MacDonald wasn’t expecting luxury when she moved her eldest son into an apartment in Vancouver’s West End as he began his first year of college, but she did expect him to live in the home he'd seen in an online listing.

10/08/2021

Rob Carrick explains why renting is an even worse crisis than the unaffordability of houses

10/02/2021

Buckle up as mortgage rates increase...

Global bond yields are rising and it’s going to push the cost of financing a mortgage a lot higher. The Government of Canada (GoC) 5-year bond yields pushed higher again yesterday. Earlier this week, we mentioned lenders are considering reversing recent mortgage rate cuts. Now we have our first to...