That Good Victoria Real Estate Blog

Just wanted to vent a little.  The headline on a story in today's paper "Resale housing market takes a beating in July".  WELL GOLLY! Thanks TC for being on the ball with your business reporting. IT'S AUGUST 28TH!! Seriously, what do we get next, perhaps a headline reading "HST has replaced GST i...

I am a do-it-myselfer.  I enjoy the challenge of fixing what's broken on my own, of discovering something new, and of finding a good bargain.  So I have to admit I get it when people tell me they think they don't need an agent for buying a house.  Between being able to search our MLS online, int...

One of my clients was shopping for a new condo.  He honestly didn't know whether I could help him with this.  He was under the impression that buying a new construction condo is like buying something from a store.  You walk in, pick the unit, pay what the price tag says and hope it all works out....

Lets face it, most Realtors are tools.  They are meant to be a specialized, craftsman type implement that are needed for the biggest jobs of your life.  Granted some may be blunt instruments and there are many that may be compared to a bag of hammers, and perhaps many that are rusty from lack of ...

     I'm tempted every day when I walk out my front door to pause on my front step just to make sure the sky isn't falling.  With the papers trumpeting SALES DOWN 44% IN JULY or INVENTORY AT RECORD LEVELS and the doomsday bubble people in the blogosphere throwing around poor absobtion rate figure...