Penticton real estate sales up nearly $50 million this year
Property sales in the Penticton area were up by nearly half through the first six months of the year, an increase one local realtor attributes to an influx of out-of-town buyers.
Sales of properties totalled $145.8 million through the first half of 2014, up from $99 million during the same period a year earlier, according to statistics compiled by the South Okanagan Real Estate Board.
The mainstream media are finally waking up to something unusual in British Columbia ` a labour shortage.
If the experience of Alberta is a guide to our own future, the highly skilled labour will disappear first. The newspapers and radio are already talking about a shortage of welders and machinists. Then the semi-skilled labour and finally the low skilled labour will be recruited to the oil and gas projects.
Total retail sales in British Columbia dipped slightly from April to May, making it the only province in the country that didn`t see growth over this period, according to Statistics Canada data released July 23.
Retail sales in B.C. declined by 0.1% to $5.5 billion in May after increasing 1.6% in April.
VANCOUVER ` Vancouver in recent years has risen to the top tier of the world`s cities with the largest number of skyscrapers.
According to skyscraperpage.com, Vancouver is listed ninth in the world with a total of 663 highrises. That number becomes more intriguing, however, when you compare the populations of the cities on the list, which include the likes of New York City (No. 1 with 5,894 highrises and a population of 8.17 million), and Toronto (No. 2 with 2,005 highrises and a population of 2.61 million).
Real estate prices reach tipping point, touching off cascade of sales in Richmond
For many commercial property owners in Richmond`s No 3. Road corridor, the time to sell has arrived, if recent real estate activity along the busy retail and commercial strip is any indication.
In commercial realtor Bal Atwal`s view, it kind of started with the sale of an IHOP restaurant at the corner of Park Road and No. 3 Road, which went for a price-per-square foot `that was pretty high,` and caught the attention of other owners, who`ve since decided to become sellers.
Northwest towns eye billions in revenue from resource boom
Northwest B.C. municipal governments formed an alliance Tuesday to help negotiate for billions in potential revenues from an expected resource boom in their region.
The B.C. government is banking on projects to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas to growing Asian markets to help fuel a so-called $100-billion prosperity fund in the next three decades.