D’Arcy Harris – Vancouver Weekly Real Estate Update January 17, 2006

============================================== D’Arcy Harris – Vancouver Weekly Real Estate Update January 17, 2006

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well, my hiatus is over and I’m back and ready to get back to it. I took some time off over the holidays to recuperate, pontificate and meditate on the coming year, and I’m very excited to get back to work helping people find/sell a home. My job is about making people’s dreams a reality, and I’m thankful to be able to do it full time. I get my job satisfaction helping people just like you, so thanks for the opportunity! What are your goals? Is one of them related to Real Estate? Email me (goals@darcyharris.com) what you want to accomplish this year, and let’s see if we can do it together. Let me be a part of YOUR team!

Regards,

D'Arcy Harris

Real Estate Broker

Sutton Group - Westcoast Realty

Tel: (604) 771 1637

www.VancouverRealEstateInfo.ca

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P.P.S: I supply this information to you free of charge and without obligation with the hope that when you do decide to buy or sell your home, you’ll call me to help make it a reality. Call me today.

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Success Story of the Week

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Congratulations and a great big thank you to all of my clients of 2005, I love my job and you allowed me to do it. I wouldn’t be where I am today without your trust and support, so thank you and I look forward to working with you again very soon! Here’s to your success in 2006!

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Market Tidbit

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”In 2005, the average price of a house in Greater Vancouver reached $585,000. The required household income to buy it: $132,000 per year, with a 10 percent down payment, according to the mortgage calculators at www.canadianmortgage.com. That’s more than twice the median household income of Vancouverites, $56,931. During 2005, average townhouse prices reached $358,000 (monthly income needed: $7,000, or $84,000 per year), and apartments grew to $295,000 ($6,000/$72,000). In the fall, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation lightly sounded the alarm, with its publication Housing Market Outlook: “Smaller price increases in 2006 will be the result of declining affordability beginning to erode consumer demand. Condominium apartments, long considered an affordable housing option, will have increased 50 percent in the 2003 to 2006 period.”

Read it all:

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=15308

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Weekly Real Estate Listings

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These are all the current listing out right now; in fact, some of them are so new they’re not even posted on Realtylink or MLS.ca. Want to get them before they’re even in the newsletter? Sign up for the VIP Buyers Program. (http://www.vancouverrealestateinfo.ca/redir.asp?page=vip_buyer.asp&t=list1) If they don’t load, cut and paste the links into your browser.

Vancouver Lofts:

http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=1045779270&s=BRC&t=BRC

Investment and Revenue Properties:

http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=112543638&s=BRC&t=BRC

Vancouver House Foreclosures:

http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=1115692104&s=BRC&t=BRC

Vancouver Apartment Foreclosures:

http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=949955937&s=BRC&t=BRC

If you see any listings that interest you, simply reply to this email with the MLS number and the time that you’re available to view it and we’ll set up a private tour just for you. Or have them emailed to you daily rather than weekly, sign up for the VIP Buyers Program:

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Insider Secrets Revealed: ==============================================

Each month, I publish a series of articles of interest to homeowners – money saving tips, household safety checklists, home improvement advice, real estate insider secrets, and much more that DOESN’T fit in this newsletter:

http://www.vancouverrealestateinfo.ca/redir.asp?page=gold_newsletter.asp&t=list1

Would you like to have access to all the new listings that match your home buying criteria, including area, price range and style of home, emailed to you directly? Tired of leafing through hundreds of listings to find what you’re looking for? This is a free service and will allow you to view only the homes that you're interested in seeing. Become a VIP Buyer and beat other buyers to all the hot new listings in Vancouver. How does it work? Visit:

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From the News:

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Condominium developer teams up with Future Shop

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=d5e03a1d-5bb8-4399-9c42-649a6fb4b2c4

North Van set to release home safety report

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_north-van20060116.html?ref=rss

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Contact Info:

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I supply this information to you free of charge and without obligation with the hope that when you do decide to buy or sell your home, you’ll call me to help make it a reality.

If I do all this for free, imagine what I do when we’re working together!

I invite you to forward this newsletter on to friends and family.

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Comments and suggestions are always welcome, thanks for reading!

D'Arcy R. Harris

Real Estate Broker

Sutton Group - Westcoast Realty

www.VancouverRealEstateInfo.ca