Nick Swinburne's (nickswinburne) Blog

Good afternoon from Whistler. I hope everyone is enjoying the week so far!This weekend sees 16,000 people registered in the “Tough Mudder” come to town. The Tough Mudder is a military style 10 mile run that takes participants through a series of obstacles. The top 5% of finishers are then qualifi...

TGIF to everyone and Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!The Whistler real estate market has had some new offerings in the past 3 days. We continue to see homes sell that are priced according to this market and overall we are matching home sales from 2011. Lot's of inventory, a lower pri...

Greetings from Whistler!The Whistler real estate market has enjoyed a busy pace this past week. Our current number of listings of chalets, condo and townhomes is just over 650 and does not include 1/4 share and timeshare. Although the raw numbers would show this to be a balanced market, this comb...

Hello everyone,Whistler wrapped up a pretty busy memorial day US long weekend yesterday. It was great to see the Washington and Oregon license plates around town. Everywhere is starting to look more and more like summer each day; the golfing is good, mountain biking starting to get going - still ...

I hope this finds everone well and enjoying the week so far.This past week brought 28 new listings, 14 price reductions and 14 sales to market compared to the 31 new listings, 11 price reductions and 23 sales from the previous week.Please click here to view the past week’s new listings and price ...

The Whistler real estate market has been a busy place this past week with a number of new listings and sales occurring. Although my prediction of a large number of new listings coming to market at the first of the month didn’t materialize to the extent that I expected, I am pleased to say we had ...

I trust this finds everyone well and off to a great start for the week! This past weekend the sun was out, people were smiling and a distant sigh could be felt on the breeze that summer is on its way. This said, there is still lots of snow in the mountains so come on up and get some spring skiing...

Whistler received some disappointing news today as global media giant ESPN announced that the X-games would not be coming to town in 2013. Favouring expansion into 3 cities (Barcelona, Munich and Foz do Iguacu, Brazil) for summer X-games, the decision put a damper on the efforts that Whistler Bla...

This past Sunday marked the unofficial end of our winter season, with another great Telus Festival completed. Last week treated audiences to both great sporting events and photo/film events. I always look forward to the Festival and the spectacle it brings (and the free beef jerky is ok too). Off...

The Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival kicked off this past weekend. The base of Whistler Mountain was the place to be on Saturday as a good gathering of people braved the chilly evening to watch the Snowboard Big Air, with the Skiers taking to the air next Saturday. Throughout the week, visito...