Blog : Tina Mak - Coldwell Banker Westburn Realty

How Parents assist their children to become home owners in Vancouver?

June 22nd, 2008

How Parents assist their children to become home owners in Vancouver? The fact is that Vancouver is one of the few remaining major cities in the world that we can still afford to own a house despite how we view our high housing prices. The rest of the world is accustomed to live in their concrete high rises in the downtown core. According to all the reports we have been reading includin ...

Is Vancouver housing price really that out of reach comparing to the rest of the world?

June 16th, 2008

Is Vancouver housing price really that out of reach comparing to the rest of the world? According to the May statistic provided by the real estate board of Greater Vancouver, which everybody can read on my website at www.TinaMak.com under Global Market Update page, once again, it shows the sales volume is down around 30% comparing to May, 2007 but price in average is still up app ...

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Who is renting in Vancouver?wherelse can you advertise besides Craigslist?

April 26th, 2008

Who is renting in Vancouver and where to advertise? I have recently encounter many Korean and Middle Eastern rental agents working in the rental market looking for property on behalf of their clients. Their clients include students and relocation professionals. Due to the language barrier, the potential tenant always feel more comfortable working with people who can speak the ...

Flip or Hold Vancouver Real Estate?

April 18th, 2008

Date: April 18th, 2008 Shall we Flip? or shall we Hold real estate? Our Asian flipping property culture has recently spreads to Canada in the past few years during our red hot real estate market. So, is the market still hot? or has it started to cool off? Well, as we discussed before, we are now in a balanced market. I have recently noticed some Sellers offer bonus to the buyer' ...

Is the Vancouver market active or slow?

April 12th, 2008

"Housing Sales Slow to 2001 levels in Greater" was the headline in the Vancouver Sun business session on April 3rd. However, if you read the content details, the whole story doesn't have any figures to support the headline. It only said sales between Jan & Mar., 2008 was the slowest first quarter for sales since 2001. This is how the media likes to use headline like this to draw viewer's at ...

Chinese New Years Greeting from Tina Mak in Vancouver

January 21st, 2006

Dear Clients, Happy New Year and Gong Hay Fat Choy! Once again “Thank you” for your continuous support over the last 14 years. 2005 was a good but a dramatic year for me. In 2005 it was a record breaking year for the real estate industry, however my unexpected disk surgery put me immobile and out of work for almost 3 months and on top of that, my beloved dog, Tan, went totally blind in ...

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