Duncan Boan on December 9th, 2008

This report examines pre-owned single family home sales activity in the core area of Victoria (Victoria, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, and Saanich) for the last two years, ending November 30, 2008.
As with the condominium market, sales were down and listings were up. The extent of the changes is summarized in the Year [...]

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Duncan Boan on December 2nd, 2008

Maybe you saw the headline in today’s Victoria Times Colonist that said ‘November real estate sales hit nine-year low’. Every month the local paper dutifully includes an article discussing the Victoria Real Estate Board’s (VREB) most recent monthly statistical report. (By the way, the chart to the left does not depict the Victoria real [...]

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Duncan Boan on November 30th, 2008

There is nothing wrong with asking your REALTOR for his or her views of what’s happening in the Victoria real estate market. After all, the nature of your REALTOR’s job provides both motivation and opportunity to feel the pulse of real estate activity in Victoria.
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But remember – training to be a [...]

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Duncan Boan on November 19th, 2008

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Until recently, I was a non-believer.
Not about the fact that global warming is happening. But about it’s cause.
I doubted the whole notion that mankind’s excesses have been the main, or even a significant, cause of global warming. To me and other doubters, global warming was [...]

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