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 Just uploading this House for sale, 1004 Kentwood Place, Victoria, BC

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Broadmead is a popular area. This 1984 home was professionally renovated with a 18x15 addition (eight - nine foot ceiling) overlooking a private and peaceful rear yard. The flagstone pathway leads to the patio area as well as the cute shed. This pristine private home is located on a cul-de-sac with Broadmead Village Shopping only a few minutes away. Large master bedroom suite with balcony. The updated en-suite offers a 4x7 (approximately) synthetic marble shower base and seat. Glass shower surround... no need for a door. Main Bathroom offers two sinks, soaker tub/shower. A bright beautiful home with twelve skylights throughout, many large windows, two fireplaces, three bathrooms, three bedrooms, new roof in 2007. Tile Entry, Oak Floors and Plush Carpet. Window Coverings, Sprinkler System. Two separate electric garage doors.

 

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Victoria Real Estate Update - June 2014

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Welcome To Oak Bay

There has been an increase in the number of sales from April to May which is pretty normal.  Year over year there was an increase of over 8 percent in properties sold in the region.

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This year in May the benchmark home value reached $498,500. A modest 1 percent increase year over year. Townhomes in Greater Victoria show the most noteworthy change with an increase of 4.2 percent year over year.

Below is a Victoria Real Estate Graph Showing Listings vs Sales

June 14 Listing vs Sales Graph

On a personal note, I would like to appologize for not keeping the 'Market Update' page current.  Six family/friends passed on in the last year and half which included my grandma and best friend within 4 months of each other... life... shortly after I realized I wasn't ready and able to provide the best service for my clients. I decided to travel to Bali, a high school friend from Oak Bay married and has a family in Ubud. I am so thankful to them for inviting me.  Learned lots and experienced yoga for the first time at 'Yoga Barn' which was incredible.  Experienced Tibetan bowl meditations, Sound Medicine meditations the Ayurvedic rejuvenation centre and had the best massage. Walked with chickens and roosters. Ate and sat with lots of different ants.  Woke up to dogs barking, cows, and birds sings...hahahaha

In the end what matters most is

How well did you live

How well did you love

How well did you learn to let go.

Returned refreshed and now working hard.  I need your business...smile... If you have any questions about Victoria real esate or are thinking of Selling your home please call me direct at 250.744.4556.  Licenced since 1990, happy to help and look forward to it.  Wishing you a Happy, healthy summer.  Please stay tuned for more updates.

Below is a photo from Yoga Barn - Ubud, Bali Budda

Budda

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Oak Bay Real Estate Update - November 2012

For the month of October Oak Bay had 17 Single Family Sales, 175 Year To Date. Below is a chart reporting sales by price range from the Victoria Real Estate Board.  If you are interested in reviewing Chief Economist Cameron Muir Outlook that was presented to the Victoria Real Estate Board last month please click on Housing Market Snapshot.

 

11-2012 Victoria Home Sales By Price Range 

Below shows a Victoria Real Estate Chart Displaying The Total Active MLS® Listings for the Month of October 2012.

11-2012 Victoria Listings vs. Sales Graph

For a more detailed look at the Victoria Real Estate Market please read my Market Update Page. Also the Oak Bay Beach Hotel has 'Kate's Cafe' open now Daily from 6 am - 9 pm located at 1175 Beach Drive (close to the Victoria Golf Coarse). Please don't forget to set your clocks back one hour on Sunday November 4th. If you have real estate needs or wants please contact me direct at 250.744.4556.  Please stay tuned for more Oak Bay Updates!
Oak Bay Beach Hotel Completion Photo's

Oak Bay Beach Hotel Completion

Views Towards Oak Bay Beach Hotel Grounds

 

 

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Located in the Fairfield area of Victoria, I just sold this House at 418 Arnold Avenue.

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Below is a graph from the Victoria Real Estate Board showing all the Single Family Dwellings sold in the Victoria and Oak Bay areas by Price Range. For example in the Victoria area the most expensive home sold as of September 1, 2011 was just below $3 Million.  I find this graph useful to see where the activity is in various price ranges.  I hope it may be helpful to you as well.  Please stay tuned for more real estate updates!

08-11 Victoria Home Sales by Price Range

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I just finished uploading this House for sale, 418 Arnold Avenue, Victoria, BC

This Fairfield home was built in 1945, a two bedroom/two bath Craftsman Home has already stood the test of time and proven itself strong, square and worthy. Lovely woods throughout and fabulous oak floors. Gas appliances, a working fireplace, cared for with taste and style; if elegance is simplicity then this is the perfect example. Even a delightful, retro rec-room downstairs with sliding glass doors leading out to a side deck and the huge, sun-filled back yard and garden. And what a garden; tilled and loam rich and a great producer of all your favorite vegetables and berries. Sit in the sun, play with the kids and watch your garden grow. And when you do have to leave the grounds, the world is a short walk away because this is the most convenient neighborhood in the city. Seriously, the beach is three blocks away, Thrifty Foods is a block, every bus route runs nearby, five parks are less than ten minutes away. The Lieutenant Governor's Residence abuts the backyard and you gotta figure they know a good neighborhood, right? The photos give you an idea. Get out of the craziness for a bit and be charmed by the sanity of this lovely home.

Just a Sampling of Fairfield Plaza

Fairfield Plaza Photo

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I just sold this House at 812 Intervale Avenue, Victoria, BC.  During the month of July in Esquimalt there was fifteen single family homes sold and year-to-date a total of seventyseven.   The price range of sales in July were between $300,000. - $649,000. in Esquimalt.  Currently there are over five thousand listings on MLS® in Victoria.  I don't remember having this amount of inventory for buyers since 1995. Statistically, September will be more active with Victoria properties selling.

View this recently sold House or see all my home sales.

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Uplands Real Estate: This home that I sold is located in the Uplands, which is part of the Oak Bay 'map area'.  This home is located at 3035 Uplands Road.

In Oak Bay for the month of June there were a total of 19 homes sold. Five out the nineteen sold start at $1,000,000. price range.  The total homes sold year-to-date in Oak Bay is 142.  If you have any questions regarding Victoria real estate please contact me direct at 250.744.4556 or email: brenda@brendarussell.ca  twitter:brussell6  Licensed since 1990 - be happy to help.

View this recently sold House or see all my home sales

Below is a photo of Oak Bay Secondary School located on Cranmore Road.

Oak Bay Secondary School

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Media Release from PacWest on Real Estate June 30, 2011

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James McNaught, President of PacWest International, sent this information to me which I thought was very interesting and wanted to share with you. 


*  British Columbia gets about fifty-five percent of Canada's investor-class immigrants, people who have a minimum net worth of $1.6 million Canadian.  British Columbia drew a total of 3,779 investor-class immigrants from China in 2010.  It's not just the Chinese shopping for homes, South Korean and Taiwanese buyers have also been active.

*  As the Chinese gets more and more prosperous, they are diversifying their assets out of China and Vancouver is very high on the list.

*  Mainland Chinese are buying houses primarily in Vancouver's Westside, the district known for its wide boulevards, beaches, expansive parks and stucco Tudor mansions.  Prime Westside neighbourhoods include Point Grey, Shaughnessy and Dunbar.  The University of British Columbia is in the area.  Interest is also spreading to other parts of Vancouver such as White Rock.  West Vancouver is a new hot spot because houses are built on the mountainside with their backs to the Coast Range; they generally face south providing views of English Bay and Burrard Inlet.  This conforms to the principles of Feng Shui, the proper placement of features within and surrounding a house to increase wealth and deflect bad luck.

Report from Beijing, June 30, 2011

Chinese wanting to come to Canada are stunned and extremely upset. Quietly, July 1, 2011 the door shuts on cash-heavy, Mainland Chinese.  Canada is abruptly capping the Federal Immigrant Investor Program, setting a minuscule target of  just 700 for next year - a quota expected to be filled in just days. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced that of July 1, 2011, the number of Federal Immigrant Investor applications accepted for process will be capped at 700 for the coming 12 months.

For Victoria and Vancouver luxury in British Columbia Canada PacWest has over forty years of experience.  If there is anything I can help with, be happy to. My direct line is 1.800.550.0585 or 250.744.4556 for all residential real estate. Please stay tuned for more updates!

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