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17 Jun 2009, Comments Off

NEW CABINET FOCUSED ON MOVING BRITISH COLUMBIA FORWARD

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Good promises for Real estate, Moishe Alexander, CFC CEO, says

VICTORIA – Premier Gordon Campbell appointed a new cabinet today to build a strong economic future, capitalize on hosting the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and seize emerging global opportunities as Canada’s Pacific Gateway.

“The members of this executive council are proven leaders and, like all of their caucus colleagues, are ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work immediately to build a stronger province,” said Premier Campbell. “Together, we will focus on B.C.’s priorities of building the economy, creating jobs and continuing to enhance critical services like health and education.

“This is an important time in B.C.’s history, filled both with challenges and opportunities. The members of our new cabinet are dedicated to meeting those challenges and seizing those opportunities on behalf of all British Columbians. We will build on the strong foundation we’ve forged together over the last eight years and create an even brighter future.”

The new members of the provincial cabinet are Randy Hawes, Kash Heed, Margaret MacDiarmid, Mary McNeil, Ben Stewart, Moira Stilwell, Steve Thomson, Naomi Yamamoto and John Yap.

Mike de Jong is the Government house leader and George Abbott is the deputy house leader. Bill Barisoff will be the Government Caucus nominee for Speaker and Linda Reid the nominee for Deputy Speaker.

“We will continue to work with B.C.’s First Nations to strengthen and build on our new relationship, which will create certainty and economic opportunity for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal British Columbians alike,” said Premier Campbell. “In just 247 days, B.C. and Canada will welcome the world for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. This is an unprecedented opportunity to market our province and its people to the world, and create new growth right here in British Columbia. Our cabinet will work to take advantage of this opportunity and to continue building our province as Canada’s Gateway to the Asia Pacific.”

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2009PREM0002-000002.htm

16 Jun 2009, Comments Off

Vancouver real estate prices will drop less than expected

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Reviewed and recommended by Moishe Alexander, CFC CEO

A recent surge in real estate sales has caused the Canadian Real Estate Association to sharply revise its expectations for price drops in British Columbia.
CREA, in its forecast released on Thursday, estimated that B.C.’s average house price will drop less than seven per cent over 2009, more than 3 percentage points less than the 10.6 per cent drop forecast in February.
CREA’s forecast that B.C.’s average price will drop to $423,300, instead of the $406,300 average it forecast earlier.
Going forward to 2010, CREA is now predicting that B.C. prices will start edging up again by almost two per cent compared with a 2010 drop of 0.6 per cent forecasted in February.
B.C. sales rose in April from the previous month, the B.C. Real Estate Association said Thursday in a news release, as buyers were drawn back into the market by lower prices and rock-bottom mortgage rates. And the inventory of unsold homes across the province dropped to the lowest level in 12 months, the association said, edging the ratio of sales to active listings close to the zone housing economists consider balanced between buyers and sellers.
“An increase in consumer demand combined with fewer homes for sale has trended the market near balanced conditions,” Cameron Muir, chief economist for the B.C. Real Estate Association said in an interview.
April was the third straight month that sales were higher than the previous month.

Peter Raab

http://www.peterraab.ca/vancouver-real-estate-market-updates/2009/05/vancouver-real-estate-prices-will-drop.html

5 Apr 2009, Comments Off

CFC Reviews CMHC Design Report: IDP — Benefits of Integrated Design – Institutional Policy

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Governments, utilities and many clients want you to use IDP. Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP) is expressly designed to provide monetary assistance to owners and design teams to enable them to spend the time to implement integrated design on your projects. This program grew out of experience that NRCan had in the 1990s with C-2000, a demonstration program.
The experience was that some additional design expertise was needed, but that most building performance gains came from a change in the process, and the most
successful projects employed the IDP. Several utilities have programs that support IDP. BC Hydro has its High Performance Building Program that provides co-funding to perform energy studies and it is about to launch a program to promote IDP.
Enbridge Gas Distribution and Union Gas in Ontario jointly offer a Design Assistance Program that provides a fixed incentive for design activities that improve your building’s energy and environmental performance. Enbridge also has a New Building Construction Program that provides incentives for adding some efficiency measures.
Mountain Equipment Co-op, which has built some of the most progressive green buildings in Canada, seeks to improve performance with each new store and requires its design teams to utilize IDP.
It was key to achieving the impressive performance these buildings have demonstrated to date Green Buildings BC, a program that provided tools and resources to help B.C.
education and health care agencies build green buildings, recognizes the value of IDP in its Guide to Value Analysis and the Integrated Design Process.
Clients who do not explicitly ask you to use IDP likely would do so if they knew the value that IDP and green design could add to their projects. Reviewed by Guiseppe Strazzeri.

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