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1473 E. King Edward Ave (King Edward Village)
Overview
This quiet town home offers 2 bedrooms and a den in 1106 sq ft of thoughtfully laid out living space. Bedrooms are on separate floors with their own en-suite bathrooms, isolating day-to-day noise and enhancing peaceful living. A back door allows direct access to your TWO underground [...]
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The affordability of Vancouver housing prices continues to be buzz-worthy topic for anyone interested in investing (or holding) property the market. In Van City, I think the affordability issue rates high on people’s general conversational radar ~ so much so, that the question “where do you live” seems to go hand in hand with “what [...]
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Sebastian Albrecht, Vancouver realtor,discusses the impacts of implementing rental restrictions on Vancouver condos in this video blog. Rental restrictions are detrimental to a building because they restrict the freedom of the owner. If you choose to travel for three months, you will not be able to rent your home out at the last moment. 25% [...]
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Vancouver realtor, Sebastian Albrecht, talks about what lies ahead for the Vancouver real estate market in this video blog. Sebastian discusses the potential impacts of the Olympics, the economy as well as interest rates. Where are real estate prices headed? What does this mean for your investment in the market?
Please share your opinion on this, [...]
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Sebastian Albrecht, Vancouver realtor, video blogs about how he sees the 2010 Winter Olympics impacting the Vancouver real estate market. The three primary impacts are urban regeneration, infrastructure improvements and publicity. These three prongs will combine to improve the Vancouver real estate market over the course of years, not months. The biggest benefit that [...]
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Vancouver realtor Sebastian Albrecht video blogs about the importance of personally viewing parking spaces and storage lockers. Buying a Vancouver condo? You will want to see both the parking space and storage locker in person. Recent experiences highlight the importance of personally inspecting the parking and storage. It can affect the long-term value and saleability [...]
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You probably have never heard of the Homeowner Protection Office. It’s an agency that most of us never hear about unless we find ourselves in dire straights (facing a large assessment on a condo, for instance). The HPO was created out of the height of the Leaky Condo crisis that leveled the Vancouver real estate [...]
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Balanced markets emerging
If you’ve been reading this blog lately, or just watching the For Sale signs on your street, you know that the Vancouver real estate market has come back to life. In a number of recent posts, I’ve pointed out that this resurgence began with the reappearance of the first-time home buyer into the [...]
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