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What is MLS(Multiple Listing System) & why should buyers have their own buying agent?
February 26th, 2011Please click Podcast listen to Cantonese interview
Canada has the best unified MLS system in the world. What we have here is all listings submit to the real estate board & even the public can see all listings across the country on our public website. However, only agent can see the sale price. Agents can then share all the sale prices with their buyers. Everything is open & there is nothing ...
Interest Rate updated on Feb 21 ,2011
February 23rd, 2011Economics Predictions on Variable Rate Mortgages
February 17th, 2011Despite recent increases in 5 year fixed mortgage rates, NO INCREASE FORECASTED UNTIL MID TO LATE 2011
The strong Canadian dollar is expected to continue to hurt exports and corporate earnings. This being the case, experts feel that the Bank of Canada will likely keep its overnight rate unchanged until the second half of 2011. The forecast suggests that the Bank of Canada overnight rate will ...
Interest Rate updated on Feb 15 ,2011
February 16th, 2011306 14377 103 Ave, North Surrey, British Columbia
February 15th, 2011I just sold this Condo at 306 14377 103 Ave, North Surrey, British Columbia Whalley.
View this recently sold Condo or see all my home sales
Interest Rate vs Economy
February 12th, 2011Please click Podcast listen to Cantonese interview
Well, we can't have our pie and eat it too! The interest rate hike was made based on surveys from both side of the border detecting identical pattern of rising confidence. A hopeful sign for the still fragile recovery. A stronger economy will offset the effects of higher mortgage rates and keep Canadian house prices stable over the next two ...
Housing market will be stable next two years: RBC
February 11th, 2011A stronger economy will offset the effects of higher mortgage rates and keep Canadian house prices stable over the next two years, according to the Royal Bank of Canada.
In a market update that has the bank forecasting price gains of 0.5 per cent in 2011 and 1.3 per cent in 2012, economist Robert Hogue said that after two years of “gyrating wildly,” the Going forward, we see nearly perfectly ...