Blog by Connie Buna

Giving Back

August 25th, 2011

Thanks very much Rain City Housing for this very sweet thank you.  And I'll extend that thanks to all of my clients. It's in their honour that I support Rain City. http://www.raincityhousing.org/support-us/thank-you/

To buy or to rent, this is the question.

June 24th, 2010

The NY Times has an excellent interactive tool to help people understand the benefits of buying vs. renting in their given market area.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html

How I’ve filled in the data fields based on data from the spring 2010 CMHC publication:

Annual Home Price Change 3%

Annual Rent Increase 4%

Monthly Rent $1200

Home Price $300,000

Down paymen ...

HST Info

April 15th, 2010
Hi Folks,
This is sourced directly from the BC Governement's website addressing HST and Real Estate in BC.
To read more see: http://www.gov.bc.ca/hst/faq.html

New Housing Rebate

Q. Will there be a rebate for new housing?

B.C. will provide a rebate for new housing purchased as a primary residence. The government announced on Nov. 19, 2009 that the threshold for the new housing rebate will be ...