In this article, MLS real estate data shows which Vancouver neighbourhoods are a better investment over-time and which Vancouver neighbourhoods are not as good as an investment over time. Home investments can be the difference between early retirement and late retirement. Like anything, homes depreciate with age too. But unlike smaller investments such as electronics […]
How much would you pay in order to live on the 50th floor of a high-rise? We estimate that you have to pay almost twice the price of an equivalent unit on the 10th floor or 2.7 times the price on the first floor. Would you pay twice, three-times or quadruple the price to live […]
The most walkable Vancouver neighborhoods: Figure 1: The average walk score for each Vancouver neighborhood The most walkable Vancouver neighborhood’s: What does this mean? A walk score is a score given to every listing calculated by analyzing the distance between its particular location and nearby routes and amenities. For example, homes that are closer to […]
In this article, we interview four of the most prolific realtors in Metro Vancouver on how they climbed out of the top 50% list in 2015 and into the top 5% list in 2018. The world was a lot different in 2015. Barack Obama was still President of the U.S. Justin Trudeau was just […]
In this article, we expose the top Vancouver agents of 2019 for each subarea. It’s no surprise that there is hefty competition in Vancouver’s real estate market. For instance, in 2017, there were nearly 14,000 agents competing amongst each other as Vancouver’s housing market boomed beyond expectations. Although now that the number of Vancouver realtors […]
What is Vancouver’s real estate market like for the top three realtors? To better understand the current Vancouver housing market situation, we compared the data from the top three Vancouver realtors that had the most number of sales in 2016 with their number of sales in 2019 for West Vancouver and East Vancouver (Figure 1 […]
In comparing 2016 to 2019, the average days on the market (DOM) for a home listed on Vancouver’s housing market is lasting doubled. This means that some Vancouver neighbourhoods will struggle in 2019-2020. Data compiled by Roomvu, a Vancouver-based real estate marketing and analytics firm, shows that the days on the market has nearly doubled […]
If you love Toronto but want to save a buck or two on rent, stay clear of these 13 iconic landmarks and prominent buildings. Rent in Toronto is unquestionably high. And depending on the neighbourhood, it can be even higher, making cheap rent in Toronto hard to find For instance, Torontonians choosing to live downtown […]
Where to live in the City of Toronto if you want to live close to the downtown core and pay cheap rent… Toronto’s amalgamation in 1998 turned it into the fifth-largest city in North America and gave us the six neighbourhoods we know today: Etobicoke, York, North York, Scarborough, York and Old Toronto. Though these […]
Pre-sales for townhouses/semi-detached are much more expensive than detached homes in the Greater Toronto area: Report Housing in Toronto is the tenth least-affordable in the world, neck-and-neck with London and behind cities like San Francisco and Honolulu–though not by much. Buying properties as a pre-sales–a home that is bought or sold prior to construction–is often […]
