Urban Vancouver

when a dream becomes real

By jlyon on August 10, 2007 - 1:11pm

My Real Place is a newly launched community website focused on the Real Estate market.

We created My Real Place to provide consumers with access to real estate information and to have a degree of control in the realty process.

I was frustrated with what was out there to help me buy my own place and thought we could do better. I wanted to bring all aspects of the real estate market together - listings, realtors, mortgage brokers, contractors etc and do it in a novel, intuitive and easy to use way. To be able to ask questions on my own terms and in my own time, to find out easily who's selling what and where.

It's early days yet but we seem to be getting a lot of interest from people who seem to like it. We think it's awesome but I guess we would say that.

We currently have over 15,000 property listings, over 4,000 realtors and other realty professionals. We're getting over 2,000 people a day on the site so I guess we must be doing something right. We hope to roll out across Canada in the next few months so it's exciting times.

If you get chance, check it out and let us know what you think. Stop by and say hi.

Cheers

Jonathan
Co-Founder

My Real Place

Slower economic growth expected

By ebizniz on July 2, 2007 - 9:52am

An article by Vancouver home mortgage:

Vancouver home mortgage is reporting a slower Canadian economic growth for the second half of 2007.

TAVIA GRANT from The Globe and Mail reported on June 29, 2007 a slow down in wholesale trade for March, 2007. The lower growth number at 0.3% is the first time in 10 months, and economists are projecting a lower growth number for April to be at 0.2%.

Inspite of the slower growth in Canada's economy, no one is expecting the long expect interest rate hike by the Bank of Canada to be post-phoned. "Rates may rise by a quarter percentage point on July 10, but the outlook for borrowing costs is fuzzy after that, an economist said".

JULIAN BELTRAME of Canada East Online reported on Thursday June 28th, 2007 "High-flying Canadian dollar helping bring down inflation". With the Canadian dollar at 30 year high at around Cdn $94.00 against the US dollar, economists are projecting a slowing down in Canada's economic growth. Eastern Canada's manufacturing companies are already reporting higher costs and projecting lower revenues from exports to the U.S.A. and overseas due to the high Canadian dollar.