There are many factors that affect one’s decision to rent or buy property. Today we look at just one of them: your net worth.
The Victoria Real Estate Board maintains statistics back to 1978. That year, the average selling price for a home in Victoria was $64,000. Twenty-eight years later (2006) that figure was $521,000. [...]
Yes, it’s over! The annual RRSP campaign has ended for this year.
I don’t know about you, but I find the annual barrage of ads extolling the virtues of maxing my RRSP contribution more than a teeny bit tiresome.
This year I thought the RRSP blitz was even worse than other years. Why? Maybe [...]
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Well, yesterday Carol Taylor, our Minister of Finance, delivered the government’s annual budget. Expressing concern about housing ‘affordability’, the Minister announced a change related to the Property Transfer Tax system (discussed earlier here).
Regrettably, the change did nothing to reduce the rate of taxation in general. So, if you are not a first time home [...]
The government of British Columbia experienced an incredibly good year financially, ending up with a 3.5 Billion dollar surplus at the end of March, 2006. Our Finance Minister pointed out several reasons for this stellar financial performance, but I don’t recall her referring to the cash cow that is the Property Transfer Tax.
Under British Columbia [...]
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Unrealistic Expectations:
“I’ll be here for two years – help me find a condo that I can sell when I leave for a profit of at least $50,000″.
There is nothing like the exuberance of youth, especially that of a young client who has never seen a real estate market do anything but [...]
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