Karen Boies

Mortgage Planner

  • 4 changes in B.C.’s hot real estate market @ MoneySense

    “After weeks of acrimonious headlines and months of finger-pointing, there’s been a few developments that should eventually help ease skyrocketing Vancouver home prices. Triple the fine At the end of March, the president of Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV), the provincial trade association that represents British Columbia’s realtors, wrote an open letter to B.C. Premier Christy Clark, criticizing

  • 8 ways to fix Vancouver’s real estate madness from @moneysense

    8 ways to fix Vancouver’s real estate madness Something must be done to help create more affordable housing People across Canada continue to debate whether Vancouver’s hot real estate market is messed up or just a result of high demand, low supply. For some the solution to this hot, crazy west coast market is to

  • 4 casualties of Vancouver’s real estate market from @moneysense

    4 casualties of Vancouver’s real estate market from @moneysense Young would-be homeowners are feeling the chill. For more than half a decade, these potential property-owners and family-makers have been frozen out of the city of Vancouver. But that freeze due to unaffordable housing doesn’t stop at Boundary Road. Homebuyers are struggling to find affordable housing on the North Shore, in