Blog by Craig Rushton

City to demolish shipyard buildings

January 23rd, 2008

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5-2 vote seals fate of waterfront's heritage-designated buidings

Heidi Castle, North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Three heritage-designated buildings on the City of North Vancouver's waterfront will be torn down, their fate tied to the proposed National Maritime Centre.

"We all want the National Maritime Centre," said Mayor Darrell Mussatto at Monday's council meet ...

2007 residential housing sales rank second all-time

January 6th, 2008
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- January 3, 2008 - Residential housing sales for 2007 are the second highest ever recorded by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV). The REBGV reports that residential attached, detached and apartmentproperty sales totalled 38,050 between January 1 and December 31, 2007. This marks a 7.2 per cent increase from 2006 and a 6.1 per cent decrease from 2005, the reco ...

December Pier Update

January 3rd, 2008

December was a fairly slow month at the Pier with four sales- 2 resale and 2 presale. With 25 Active listings between 138 East Esplanade and 168 East Esplanade the heavy competition at for sales at the Pier continues...especially with 188 East Esplanade scheduled to complete in March. To add to the competition Pinnacle (the developer of the Pier) has 57 available presale homes to choose from ...