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VANCOUVER – Nominations are now open for the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s (REBGV’s) 3rd annual Commercial Building Awards. The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, June 29.

VANCOUVER, BC - Home sale and listing activity has maintained a consistent pace on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in Greater Vancouver in recent months, which has helped create balanced conditions for the region’s housing market.

VANCOUVER, BC - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) recently honoured three REALTORS® for their extensive work in the community in 2011.

VANCOUVER, BC - March home sales trended below 10-year average in Greater Vancouver while home listing activity outpaced what’s typical for the month.

VANCOUVER, BC - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) is pleased to introduce Eugen Klein as its 2012/2013 president. Klein replaces outgoing President Rosario Setticasi.

VANCOUVER, BC – Closer alignment between home buyer and seller activity helped bring greater balance to the Greater Vancouver housing market in February.

VANCOUVER, BC – Greater Vancouver home sellers were more active than buyers in January and overall home prices, according to the new MLS® Home Price Index (MLS® HPI), continued to experience more stability and less fluctuation compared to the beginning of 2011.

VANCOUVER, BC – The 2011 Greater Vancouver housing market began with heightened demand in regional hot spots and concluded with greater balance between seller supply and buyer demand.

VANCOUVER, BC – Nearly 19,000 working poor and homeless people across the Lower Mainland received donations of blankets, clothing, and other necessities this year from the region’s longest running Blanket Drive.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Greater Vancouver housing market saw relatively typical home sale and listing activity in November.

VANCOUVER, BC – The 17th annual REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive begins today and will run until Monday, December 5. Hundreds of real estate offices from Whistler to Chilliwack turn into donation depots for eight days as REALTORS® collect, sort and deliver donations of warm, winter clothing and blankets for distribution to dozens of local charities.

VANCOUVER, BC – For the first time in its 17-year history, a video blog will tell the REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive story, from the perspective of the volunteers, charities and community partners who make it happen.

VANCOUVER, BC – People depend on the REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive. What started as a compassionate offer of simple warmth to those living on the streets in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is now the largest, longest-running charitable blanket and warm clothing collection in the region.

VANCOUVER, BC – With a sales-to-active property listings ratio of 15 per cent, the Greater Vancouver housing market continues to hover at the lower end of a balanced market and has been trending in that direction over the past five months.

VANCOUVER, BC - Consistent increases in property listings and fewer home sales over the summer months has helped move the Greater Vancouver housing market into the upper end of a buyers’ market.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) honoured the very best in commercial building at its 2nd annual Commercial Building Awards on September 29.

VANCOUVER, BC – August marked the third consecutive month that home sale activity in Greater Vancouver was below the 10-year average for the month. In contrast, home listing activity in the region has exceeded the 10-year norm every month since the beginning of the year.

VANCOUVER, BC – While the balance between home buyer and seller activity remains in an equilibrium range in the Greater Vancouver housing market, last month’s home sale total was below the 10-year average for July.

VANCOUVER, BC – Home sellers outpaced buyers on Greater Vancouver’s Multiple Listings Service® (MLS®) in June, drawing the market back toward balance this summer.

VANCOUVER, BC – Home sales remained at typical springtime levels on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in Greater Vancouver in May.

VANCOUVER, BC –  Three housing related charities recently received more than $34,000 in donations from the REALTORS Care® Shelter Drive.

VANCOUVER, BC - Greater Vancouver saw a typical, solid month of residential home sales on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in April, in contrast to the near record pace witnessed in the two preceding months.

VANCOUVER, BC - Activity in the Greater Vancouver housing market continued to strengthen in March with both the number of homes sold and added to the region’s Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) reaching near record levels.

VANCOUVER, BC - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) is pleased to introduce Rosario Setticasi as the association’s 2011/2012 president. Setticasi replaces outgoing President Jake Moldowan.

VANCOUVER, BC - REALTOR® Harvey Exner became the third recipient of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s (REBGV) Professional Excellence Award, March 25, during the association’s annual President’s Recognition Dinner.

VANCOUVER, BC – Three Greater Vancouver REALTORS® were recognized for their deep commitment to charitable causes in 2010. Rob Jeeves, Kenan MacKenzie and Patricia Simpson were named 2010 recipients of the REALTORS Care® Awards during an event hosted by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV).

VANCOUVER, BC – Demand for detached homes continues to be strong across Greater Vancouver, with particularly high sales volumes occurring in Richmond and Vancouver Westside.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Greater Vancouver housing market remained in balanced market conditions in January, although higher levels of buyer demand were seen in some of the region’s largest communities.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Greater Vancouver residential housing market entered three distinctive phases in 2010. Continued buoyancy from the post-recession recovery began the year, followed by a summer lull and, throughout the fall, a sustained period of stability.

VANCOUVER, BC – Facing down predictions for severe winter weather this year, the 16th annual REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive received its most overwhelming response to date. The Blanket Drive, which officially took place from November 29 to December 6, collected 5,186 bags of clothing, coats and blankets for dozens of charities across the Lower Mainland.

VANCOUVER, BC – Greater Vancouver residential home sales improved in November compared to the previous four months, with the number of sales posted on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) coming in slightly higher than the 10-year average for that month.

VANCOUVER, BC – With predictions for this winter to be the coldest and wettest in 50 years, and the number of homeless people on the rise in the Lower Mainland, the need for the annual REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive could be at its highest in its 16-year history.

VANCOUVER, BC - Greater Vancouver home sales have remained steady over the past four months, indicating stability in the residential housing market. With the MLS® sales to active listing inventory ratio indicating a buyers’ market, properties appropriately priced are selling.

VANCOUVER, BC – REALTORS® with the Burnaby/New Westminster/Tri-Cities (BNT) division of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) raised nearly $10,000 for the Tri-City Women’s Resource Society at their annual golf tournament at the Carnoustie Golf Club in Coquitlam on September 14.

VANCOUVER, BC - September home sales in Greater Vancouver were consistent with activity experienced in the preceding two months across most categories.

VANCOUVER, B.C. – September 27, 2010 – A sold-out event celebrated the ‘best of commercial building’ at the inaugural Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) Commercial Building Awards, September 23, at the Renaissance Hotel.

VANCOUVER, BC - Conditions in the Greater Vancouver housing market continued to favour buyers in August. Since April, prices have edged down slightly as the number of sales and the number of properties coming on to the market have been declining.

VANCOUVER, BC - Home sales activity in Greater Vancouver was quieter last month than most Julys over the past decade, with residential sales, prices, and the number of homes listed for sale trending downward in recent months.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Greater Vancouver housing market experienced steady activity to begin the summer season. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales in Greater Vancouver totalled 2,972 in June 2010, a decline of 30.2 per cent compared to the 4,259 sales in June 2009, which was the second highest selling June on record.

VANCOUVER, BC – The number of properties listed for sale in Greater Vancouver continued to rise in May, while the number of sales showed a year-over-year decrease.

VANCOUVER, BC – The Greater Vancouver housing market experienced increased activity in April thanks to a steady balance of home buyers and sellers entering the marketplace.

VANCOUVER, BC - A steady influx of new listings has helped create a balanced ‘typical spring’ housing market in the Greater Vancouver region.

VANCOUVER, BC - REALTORS® have been recognized for their deep commitment to various charitable and advocacy causes in their communities in 2009.

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Port Moody REALTOR® Sheila Francis was recently named the second ever recipient of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s Professional Excellence Award.

VANCOUVER, BC - The Greater Vancouver housing market continued to experience strong demand from homebuyers and an increase in total property listings in a month where the eyes of the world were focused on the region. 

VANCOUVER, BC – REALTORS® from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s (REBGV) commercial and six geographical divisions converted a year’s worth of meetings, seminars and other events into thousands of dollars for the people most in need within their respective communities.

VANCOUVER, BC - Diverse selection and favourable interest rates continue to drive demand in the Greater Vancouver housing market.

VANCOUVER – After beginning the year at near record low sales levels, buyers’ confidence in the Greater Vancouver housing market quickly returned, allowing for significant and sustained increases in the number of residential property sales for much of 2009.

VANCOUVER – The 15th annual REALTORS® Care Blanket Drive is proof that wonderful things happen when everyone pitches in.

VANCOUVER - Home values continued to edge upward in November as demand in the Greater Vancouver housing market remains well above seasonal norms.