A Blog For Condo Buyers and Sellers
Gauvin 2000 Construction has been conducting a 3 year experiment on building envelop technology. It is great to see that someone is taking an active interest in ensuring that the leaky condo issue will be one of the past rather than timeless. It is often easy to rely on one method and think that it [...]
Onni, a major developer in Metro Vancouver is being investigated by an arm of the provincial government after CTV found it was still selling condos even though construction has been halted at one of its projects, V6A at Main and Union. This puts yet another twist in the ongoing concerns over developers and new developments [...]
Seems that almost daily there is another development that has been put on hold. This time it is a Millennium project at Park Royal in West Vancouver. That’s right, the same developer that is building the Olympic Village and was in the news recently for concern over large cost overruns for that project. In this [...]
With people already nervous about the economy and the real estate market cool down, another development in Vancouver has been halted during the initial construction phase. The Ritz Carlton Hotel/Condo project has been halted for a parking redesign and not due to the recent financial crisis and real estate market downturn, but even so purchasers [...]
Well in this time of prices falling, and the apparent sky falling it is interesting to note that condo prices actually increased in the Fraser Valley in September as is discusses in the Tri-City News article Financial market crisis a factor as real estate market slips The news is not all good of course, it [...]
The once hyped development of three large towers, Infinity at Central City appears to be having financial problems again. These are unconfirmed reports at this point but given the current market conditions and things that have happened with other developments in recent times this does not come as a surprise, rather a confirmation of possible [...]
I came across an interesting article about a new construction technique that saves time and seems to improve quality control when constructing multi family developments. With all the past problems with leaky condos and time delays with new developments I though this was an interesting concept. Rather than try to explain, have a read of [...]
Photo Courtesy of Foxtongue Building higher end condo developments in the inner city districts is becoming common place. We have seen this in Vancouver for some time and it has been met with relative success so far. Now we see a Vancouver developer doing the same thing in Calgary. In the article Inner Vision developer [...]
Pleasing residents of a district not always easy, and may not always lead to the best decision for the district. As you can see in the article No Condos for Horseshoe Bay Fire hall Site there are always conflicting views on these things. It seems residents are often opposed to multi-family condo developments in their [...]
Photo Courtesy of: trec_lit Does anyone want to Live in Richards on Richards? Well buyers, if you do it looks like you will now have the opportunity. Looks like construction is set to start in the spring of 2009 and complete sometime in 2011. There are most certainly mixed feelings for people on this issue [...]
