Active Victoria Real Estate Listings Slide Below 2,000 Mark | Times Colonist
[soliloquy id="5879"] With less than 2,000 active listings, Victoria’s real estate market remains firmly weighted in favour of the seller, according to data released Tuesday by the Victoria Real Estate Board. There were 1,921 active listings at the end of last month,...
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Capital region homeowners consider locking in after interest-rate hike | Times Colonist
First-time homebuyers and owners about to renew their mortgages are nervous about the first benchmark interest-rate hike, a Victoria mortgage broker said Wednesday. The increase, the first in nearly seven years, might prompt some people to lock in their mortgage...
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Victoria ranked second in world for luxury real estate | CHEK News
A new report from Christie’s International lists Victoria as the second hottest luxury real estate market in the world. When you think of a luxury home you probably picture a house on the ocean, or a large estate, but with the Victoria real estate market booming, the...
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Election result provides no easy answers to housing issues | Vancouver Sun
At least one major Vancouver real estate firm believes that the election results mean that housing policy in the province will remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. “The one thing you want the government to provide is certainty in policy,” said Dan Scarrow,...
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Macdonald Realty nominated for Top Luxury Brokerage Award
VANCOUVER, B.C. – (March 28, 2017) – Macdonald Realty was nominated for the Luxury Portfolio International® Top Luxury Brokerage Award, presented for overall engagement in Luxury Portfolio; embracement of tools, meetings, events, advertising and brand usage; and...
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Macdonald Realty: A Giant Tree from a Tiny Acorn
Vision and hard work – that sums up how Lynn Hsu grew a real estate company from one office to 20 offices and 1,000-plus employees, making it Western Canada’s largest full-service brokerage firm [soliloquy id="5481"] As seen in... Profiles of Excellence 2017...
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Macdonald Realty Wins Marketing Award at Global Real Estate Conference
VANCOUVER, B.C. – (March 15, 2017) – Macdonald Realty was presented with a marketing award from Leading Real Estate Companies of the World™, a selective global community of the highest quality independent real estate firms. The award was presented during the Leading...
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Darin Germyn of Macdonald Realty becomes the Vice President of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board
SURREY, B.C., Canada (February 22, 2017) - At the annual Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) Annual General Meeting, Darin Germyn from Macdonald Realty South Surrey/White Rock office was elected to be the Vice President of the Board. The FVREB is a professional...
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Stewart Henderson of Macdonald Realty receives the 2017 John Armeneau Professional of the Year Award
SURREY, B.C., Canada (February 22, 2017) - At the annual Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) Annual General Meeting, Stewart Henderson from Macdonald Realty Langley office received the John Armeneau Professional of the Year Award. This is the highest honour the...
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As Vancouver’s housing market cools, commercial property sales soar | The Globe and Mail
Claire Wyrostok, owner of popular Vancouver vegetarian restaurant Black Lodge, wonders how long it will be until Vancouver’s hot real estate market pushes her out of business. In the four years that Ms. Wyrostok has been at her current location, on Kingsway just off...
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