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| | 15/06/06 | | Is Home Ownership a Bad Thing? | | | | | | Homeowners occupy two-thirds of the dwellings in Canada, and by the looks of the still-hot real estate market, the desire to own a home is not waning. But does home ownership promote urban sprawl, racial segregation and harm to the environment? Does owning a home create healthier and happier families? Is it a good financial move that will lead to the accumulation of wealth, or does it lock too much of a financial portfolio into home equity, restricting other investments that a homeowner can make? | | | | | | | |
| | 05/10/05 | | Average bungalow price hits $500,000 | | | | | | The average price for a Vancouver bungalow hit almost $500,000 in the third quarter of 2005, showing one of the stronger gains in value across B.C., Royal LePage Real Estate said Monday. Royal LePage's third-quarter housing price survey shows that the price of the average Vancouver bungalow rose 8.8 per cent, year over year, to reach $499,667. | | | | | | | |
| | 22/08/05 | | Millionaires' paradise | | | | | | There aren’t many places in America that can claim to have only millionaires as residents: a couple of exclusive tower blocks in New York, perhaps; tiny strips of Santa Monica coastline; suburbs of the Hollywood Hills. In Florida, though, just off South Beach in Miami, lies Fisher Island, a lush, 216-acre enclave that, according to Census Bureau figures, is home to America’s richest community. | | | | | | | |
| | 05/08/05 | | We'll take Manhattan | | | | | | Many Europeans have been flocking to New York for some bargain shopping. But with the pound still strong against the dollar, canny buyers are looking beyond the designer fashion labels to snap up designer apartments. There are even murmurings of a European takeover of Manhattan.
The new influx was confirmed by Patricia Warburg Cliff, director of European sales for Corcoran Group, a leading firm of New York estate agents. She told The New York Times that, while it was not yet a case of “everyone jumping across the Atlantic with their wallets open”, the number of European buyers rose by between 10 and 15 per cent in the past year. | | | | | | | |
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