Patricia Houlihan

Yeah!!! Dual Agency takes a hit!  Buyers recognize need for proper representation.

While this has nothing to do with Deep Cove real estate, I think it is of interest to most people involved in real estate transactions.

People who know me know that I am a firm believer in buyers and sellers having their own agents except in very exceptional circumstances.  I think that given that the buyer wa ...

Here in BC, 2011 was another strong, stable year for the housing market as solid domestic demand and positive demographic shifts continued to buoy both prices and sales. The biggest gains were seen in the 5 municipalities of Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, and White Rock. These 5 key markets averaged detached home price gains of roughly 20% in 2011. The remainder of municipalit ...

Thank you so much for all of your support in the past year and I hope that I can assist many of you in the coming year. 

Your support allowed me to achieve the highest total number of houses sold in Deep Cove for the period from 2010 to 2011*.  I love the Cove and I love selling real estate so for me, that is a great honour.

If you would like any information regarding real estate or the mar ...

The Greater Vancouver housing market saw relatively typical home sale and listing activity in November.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales of detached, attached and apartment properties on the region’s Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) reached 2,360 in November. This represents a 5.9 per cent decline compared to the 2,509 sales in Novembe ...

With the recent defeat of the HST (to be implemented in March 2013), I have received some questions about how this will affect the real estate market. The short answer is: there will be a minimal effect, and some people will win, while others will lose.

While we can prognosticate about how these changes will affect the market, the government has yet to come up with a set of transition rules ...

For years I have heard people say Deep Cove is the wettest place to be-I don't agree (I think most of the North Shore is equally wet-without necessarily being equally beautiful) but I always respond explaining that it rains the same number of days just a little harder and it is much greener and bluer as it is surrounded by ocean and mountains.  In this CBC clip, they admit there is no real ev ...

With a sales-to-active property listings ratio of 15 per cent, the Greater Vancouver housing market continues to hover at the lower end of a balanced market and has been trending in that direction over the past five months.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales of detached, attached and apartment properties on the region’s Multiple Listing ...