This month I made a minor correction in how I go about searching for pre-owned condominium properties. As a result, there may be a minor disconnect with earlier monthly [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Victoria Home Market Report, Victoria Property Values, Victoria Real Estate

According to reports in the local Victoria newspaper, overall sales in the Greater Victoria Area were up in February about 63% over January, which is encouraging economic news for [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Victoria Home Market Report, Victoria Property Values, Victoria Real Estate

Chart 1 collects 12 month cumulative listings and sales for the past two years: one year ago annual listings totaled 2,112, and to the end of January 2009 were [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Victoria Condos, Victoria Home Market Report, Victoria Property Values, Victoria Real Estate

If you follow reports in the Victoria Times Colonist you may have noticed a few days ago that some real estate agents were reporting activity seems to be increasing. [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Victoria Home Market Report, Victoria Property Values, Victoria Real Estate

Duncan Boan on January 24th, 2009

The two most limiting conditions are:

the existing home must have a minimum of 150 square meters (1,615 sq feet) of living space meeting minimum height requirements of 2.15 meters [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Buying Victoria Real Estate, First time home buyers

Duncan Boan on January 14th, 2009

It’s hard to believe in the middle of rainy January, but Victoria has an annual average sunshine of 2,233 hours (I looked it up!).

Here’s another bit of trivia: [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Green Real Estate, solar water heating