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Join Me for an entire Open House weekend at two of my amazing listings located in golfing communities at Bear Mountain and Sayward Hill near Cordova Bay Golf Course. Take a break from watching The Masters and come and explore how your new home could be just steps away from world-class golf!   SATURDAY APRIL 13,  Continue Reading »

There is now a mobile app for just about anything. The 5 iPhone and iPad apps below will help make the home buying process a little bit easier. From mortgage calculations to moving organization. There’s an app for that! Zoocasa Real Estate Search  Searching for real estate in Canada just got easier! Take advantage of Zoocasa’s powerful  Continue Reading »

Greater Victoria’s real estate market is following tradition with a spring upswing in activities with month-over-month increases in showings, new listings and total sales. The Victoria Real Estate Board reports a total of 483 sales processed through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) in March 2013, an increase of 23% over the previous month. Sales figures  Continue Reading »

By Gregory Klump – Chief Economist, CREA – March 26, 2013 Canadian interest rates will remain stuck at their current unusually low levels throughout 2013. I’ve been saying as much since early 2012 and feel more than a little vindicated by the Bank of Canada’s policy interest rate announcement on January 23rd, 2013, when it  Continue Reading »

Today marks the beginning of spring – a time of renewal, rejuvenation, and looking forward to the summer ahead.  Sante Spa at Bear Mountain offers five ways to make the most of the season and get ready for everything summer has to offer. 1)  Get Outside As the weather turns warmer our thoughts naturally turn  Continue Reading »

BC Real Estate Association reports that February BC home sales continued at modest pace & pent-up demand is growing. Victoria’s February 2013 Average House Price of $463,265 is virtually unchanged from 2012’s average of $464,570 (down only -0.3%) and our listing volume has only increased 4% over February 2012 to 3,252 overall residential listings, even  Continue Reading »

VICTORIA BC – The Victoria Real Estate Board reports a total of 394 sales were processed through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) in February, an increase of 34% over the previous month. The highest activity was in single-family homes and condominiums. Compared to February 2012, sales were down by 18.26%. Shelley Mann, President of the  Continue Reading »

VICTORIA BC – A slow start to the year in Victoria’s real estate market is evidence that buyers are continuing to wait for prices to drop. Although January 2013 sales are 27% lower than January 2012, the six-month average price for a Greater Victoria home is only down 1% for the same period. “We are  Continue Reading »

Break out the mop and the paintbrush. It’s time to give your home a mini-makeover. I watched the new HGTV Show last night, Buying & Selling, with my two favourite Property Brothers, Jonathan and Drew Scott. I loved how honest they were with the homeowners about cleaning, de-cluttering and staging their home for sale.  Here  Continue Reading »

By The statistics are clear: most Canadians are not preparing for retirement. According to a new poll by CIBC, more than half of Canadians surveyed said they did not feel adequately prepared for this later stage of their lives. When we at GoldenGirlFinance.com published an article about the importance of investing in Registered Retirement Savings  Continue Reading »