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By: Yorkville vs ‘Yorkville’ « TORONTO PROPERTY REVIEWS

Yorkville vs ‘Yorkville’ « TORONTO PROPERTY REVIEWS — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:32:55 +0000

[...] analyze current returns and post some numbers on these buildings. Also, this makes me wonder about X2 condo project and all the hype, given its [...]

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:18:01 +0000

The most convincing thing to me that prices in Vancouver are totally out of whack is comparing Main st prices in Vancouver to prices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is an easy commute to get a NYC salary, and Williamsburg is Main street time 100 in terms of amenities and coolness. This place here – and many more like them – are cheaper than what the equivalent costs in Vancouver : http://www.trulia.com/property/1088016633-69-Stagg-St-3B-Brooklyn-NY-11206

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:11:02 +0000

#147 CRO

((Do you have any solid reasons why those responsible for this current financial and political mess shouldnt be held responsible? ))

I personally think those responsible should be drawn and quartered. Where we differ is in whom we think is responsible. IMV reducing the financial crisis to being an issue of partisan politics is an overly simplex diagnosis of the problem. I have no faith whatsoever that Layton or Dionne would have navigated through the crisis any better than Harper. Everyone hoped Obama was going to bring change; to mostly everyone’s disappointment he didn’t. Easy money is still flowing and real solutions to the fundmental problems that caused credit crisis are still not forthcoming. The recovery is all stimulus based not based on changed economic policies.

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:24:26 +0000

#147 rory

((did I miss anything!!!!!))

Yes you did: the U.S. of A. in general, Republicans specifically , and, of course, Fox, the most evil entity on the face of the earth.

By: Finanzkrise

Finanzkrise — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:39:57 +0000

Garth - will your video clip from the Bill Good show be posted on the web? Thanks. It was radio, not TV. You can find it here on CKNW's site. Go to the 10:30 am time slot. -- Garth

By: Calgary_rip_off

Calgary_rip_off — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:41:21 +0000

#147 Rory: If you are an owner, why are you here? You lend no credible ideas to your arguments. Do you have any solid reasons why those responsible for this current financial and political mess shouldnt be held responsible? Therefore they all are idiots, arent they?

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:41:16 +0000

Mark in Van RE historical stats:
The Statistics Canada publication Historical Statistics of Canada provides tables that cover (derived) dwelling construction costs and valuations of various sorts… might not be exactly what you were looking for but it is contextual (and free) and pre-dates your figures.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-516-x/sections/4057757-eng.htm#S225_231

Also, there has been a question about the value of dwellings in the long form of the Census of Canada back to 1941… but you might have to visit a library to see those.

If you’re really energetic, you could talk to a reference librarian at the Vancouver Public Library and tuck into their historical newspapers and Statistics Canada publications. Lots of good stuff out there that hasn’t been digitized yet.

By: steven rowlandson

steven rowlandson — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:33:41 +0000

Comment on #12s comment
Frankly as terrible as the situation is the tax payer isn’t going to clean up the mess and of course the the govenment won’t. They may talk a great game but when all is said and done the government won’t clean up their own financial mess for very long if at all.
As to why? Well thats simple. There is no responsible government and nothing has come close for a very long time if at all. That is why people with smarts around the world are buying gold and silver and squirreling it away. How did we get here?
Well it started out with gods and warrior kings as leaders and that went on for while and then the intellectuals and business types took over and organized larger goverments, funny money and debt
as well as loose morals to suit their tastes. All done in the name of responsible government. They wanted to become the new kings and gods with out being qualified.
To get to where they want to go all that went before has to be torn down and trashed in such a way as to give the perps plausible deniability and their critics must be financially ruined by debt and lousy pay or no pay and to top it off the excess population must die in such a way as to look natural and reduce the population to about 500 million chipped slaves for the new kings and gods to rule. The term conspiracy theory was invented by them to protect the conspiracy
from being believed in and thwarted. These new kings and gods use democracy, communism, crony capitalism and media brain washing methods to advance their agenda while they gradually rework the world to pursue their agenda. It has to be gradual or you might wake up and make trouble for them via escape or rebellion.
So when you vote, buy real estate, get vaccinated, pay taxes ,lose your job and listen to environmentalists remember what I said. Try not to be a sheep.

Steven

By: Dan in Victoria

Dan in Victoria — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:32:04 +0000

Man, after reading some of these replies/comments today I would have to call this “Blogging For The Hard Of Hearing”

By: rory

rory — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:49:53 +0000

#132 Soju

Hey Soju & others ….keep up the good fight on this guy.

So let me review his posts in a nutshell for you …BC and the Island suck, police suck, Calgary sucks, house prices suck, poorly educated landlords suck, everyone sucks, NDP rocks, cons are idiots, right wing anything are idiots, people delivering credible criticisms are idiots …anyone getting a theme here. …appears to be everyone else’s fault ….’nuff’ said…. did I miss anything!!!!!