Turkey asked a very interesting question a few posts back:
"How do you argue against someone who’s not willing to seriously inspect their beliefs alongside either their, or others’, empirical evidence?"
I think its an important question, and one that a lot of us should ask more often. I don't ask myself enough. He was asking ...
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March 7 Stats Update
I mentioned earlier this year that I wanted to develop some new aspects of my business. One of them will involve remote properties in the Interior, but to properly do this I'm going to have to be able to fly. To that end I'm back in school, and Friday I flew to ...
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The REBGV – What Is It?
A web consultant came by yesterday to give me a pitch, and we had an enjoyable time talking about all sorts of stuff. Eventually we got around to the MLS, the Competition Bureau, MLS data, and why the boards restrict access to it and why they are a monopoly.
The process reminded me of a ...
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Board Stats Release for February
The Board released February Stats today. Here's the news release:
Home sales activity strong through Olympic period
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.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver ...
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February 28 Stats
Inventory for REBGV and FVREB attached and detached was 18,133, of which 5,272, or 29.07%, were over 90s. For the REBGV the numbers were 11,213, 3,180 and 28.36%. For the FVREB the numbers were 6,920, 2,092 and 30.23%.
REBGV detached and attached numbers for last week were 999 new listings, 294 price changes, and ...
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More on the MLS
I've written on MLS, CREA and the Competition Bureau, and its clear that the issue interests many. What is also clear to me is that what I see when I look at the MLS is something quite different from what many others see, and I think this leads to some disagreement about the issue, ...
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February 21 Stats
During the week, based on my daily scan of the stats, I thought we'd see a more bearish numbers this week.
Didn't happen.
Inventory for REBGV and FVREB attached and detached was 17,714, of which 5,225, or 29.50%, were over 90s. For the REBGV the numbers were 11,093, 3,129 and 28.21%. For the FVREB the numbers were ...
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MLS/CREA/Competition Bureau
I want to thank Jesse for responding to the MLS/CREA/Competition Bureau issue, and will throw out some thoughts on his first question.
I asked "Why not cut the free riders out and simply allow sellers access to MLS directly?” and Jesse replied "Why not indeed. That’s the whole point I thought. FSBO is a great ...
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Serendipity
Its funny what you run across while you're looking for something else.
Take Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, politics and the US. Put them together and they're lots of fun, as we've seen from various links this week.
But, where does that stuff lead?
Well, when Chip came to Palin's defense Hippos brought up old time ...
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February 14 Stats Update and “What is the MLS?”
With CREA and the Competition Bureau in the news I'm surprised at how many competing visions of the Multiple Listing Service exist. What exactly is the MLS? I'll revisit this question in the coming weeks, so I'll keep tonight's version short, and start at the beginning, by parsing the three words.
System just refers to ...
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