Karen Boies

Mortgage Planner

  • Money down the drain @MoneySense

    How much your weekly Friday-night beers is costing you?? Whether it’s a pack of cigarettes a day, or your weekly Friday-night beers with friends at the pub, costs add up fast. Beer binge Four craft pints at the local pub at $45 weekly (including tax and tip) = $2,340/yr. A pack of smokes A pack

  • Hoping it’s the right time to buy a home? Here’s a game plan

    We’re finally seeing some hopeful signs for the wannabe home buyer who has been priced out of the market. The twin cities of unaffordability, Vancouver and Toronto, have cooled down some. And many other cities across the country are producing more or less normal price gains that make it possible to buy without committing financial

  • Vancouver real estate market unfazed by foreign buyers’ tax one year later @ CBC

    The foreign buyers’ tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government, has done little to improve affordability a year after it was introduced, say observers of Metro Vancouver’s real estate  market. Analysts say home prices have continued to escalate, sales are on pace with pre-tax expectations and houses are largely still out of reach for most residents. “Maybe