Resources
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We have assembled a useful collection of Real Estate Resources just for you! Contact us if there’s anything we’ve missed that you’d like to see added – we strive to provide the most comprehensive real estate website available!
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- Market Statistics: See comprehensive market statistics, broken out by city and housing type (detached homes, attached properties such as condos, townhouses, row houses, duplexes, and land). Check in often, these statistics will give you real understanding of what’s going on in your neighbourhood real estate market!
- Real Estate Blog: We write original content here, on current topics of interest. Check it out!
- Professionals and Contractors: We have assembled a collection of professionals and contractors who have delivered good results to us and our clients. We are not affiliated with them, except as satisfied clients, so we cannot guarantee their work. But do let us know whether you were satisfied or not!
- Useful Links: We have assembled links to authoritative sources of information on (a) topics in Real Estate, ranging from the First Time Home Buyer’s program, through BC Assessment through GST/HST rebates for new housing, (b) information regarding housing, tenancy and landlords; (c) Neighbourhood information including TV/Radio, Transportation and Mail, Tourism, Moving to Canada, link to City Hall in various municipalities, educational institutions, utilities and the environment.
- Mortgage Calculator: Work out how much your mortgage payments will be, and see what kinds of interest rates are available!
- Property Transfer Tax Calculator: Alas, purchasing property in BC means paying Property Transfer Tax. Calculate how much you will owe to ensure you have enough money to complete on your purchase!
- Affordability Calculator: An excellent starting point if you want to buy a property. This calculator will walk you through your income and expenses to determine how much you can really afford to spend on your new home! The only better approach would be to call us to discuss it…
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
Anthony Trollope
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
Marshall Field
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.
Russell Sage