November 2020 Real Estate stats/comments
Quick 30-second summary of November 2020 stats: Sales 🔼 : 22.7% increase compared from November 2019, and a 16.9% decrease from October 2020. Last month’s sales were 24.6% above the …
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Delivering Happiness, RIP Tony Hsieh
It is with a heavy heart that I write this blog post. Yesterday I learned that Tony Hsieh, the Asian American entreprenuer who built the online shoe retail giant Zappos …
October 2020 Real Estate stats/comments
Quick 30-second summary of October 2020 stats: Sales 🔼 : 29% increase compared from October 2019, and a 1.2% decrease from September 2020. Last month’s sales were 34.7% above the …
Making Sense of the World
Here is a confession. I visit a lot of Facebook groups related to Vancouver real estate. In fact, if you can name it, I probably follow it. I don’t usually …
Why More is Not Better
Just finished reading a very interesting piece written by Dr. Roger Martin from the Rotman School of Business at U of T. In this book, Dr. Martin combats the common …
Sell Fast Buy Slow
If anyone has done some reading lately, they couldn’t possibly miss the psychology book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a seminal book on our cognitive biases based upon …
September 2020 Real Estate stats/comments
Quick 30-second summary of August 2020 stats: Sales 🔼 : 56.2% increase compared from September 2019, and a 19.6% decrease from August 2020. Last month’s sales were 44.8% above the …
The donut
Recently this talk of a donut effect is all the rage. For those who aren’t familiar, the donut effect is essentially masses of people abandoning the centre of the city …
August 2020 Real Estate stats/comments
Quick 30-second summery of August 2020 stats: Sales 🔼 : 33.6% increase compared from August 2019, and a 2.6% decrease from May 2020. Last month’s sales were 19.9% above the 10-year August sales …
The idea of risk
The recent spat between Vancouver Realtor Owen Bigland and CMHC head Evan Siddall has me thinking about the idea of risk. Inherently what CMHC is saying is that buying real …