Wednesday, June 1, 2011

June 1st

My intent has been to write a lot more frequently than has been the case!  Busy-ness has been in the way, whether it has been on the Real Estate side or personal side.  A lot of singing and musical events on the personal side, with the Victoria Philharmonic Choir (http://vpchoir.squarespace.com/) doing Handel's Dixit Dominus and Bach's Trauerode with the Victoria Chamber Orchestra (http://www.victoriachamberorchestra.org/) to a full house on March 12, at St Andrew's Cathedral - a great time was had by all.

On March 26th we traveled to Vancouver to join Peter Butterfield's main Vancouver Choir, Vancouver Voices (http://vancouvervoices.org/ and a chunk of the Vancouver Symphony (http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/) doing Bach's St Matthew Passion at the MOST wonderful Chan Centre on the UBC grounds (http://www.chancentre.com/).

Lastly we were under the baton of Tania Miller with the Victoria Symphony (http://www.victoriasymphony.ca/), and the Victoria Choral Society (http://www.victoriachoralsociety.ca/) for a huge three performance gig of Verdi's Requiem - Duncan  and Victoria (2).

On the work side things are moving fine with a contact list of over 100 and clients starting phone out of the blue - thank you.  We have sold a house on Foul Bay Rd in Oak Bay that we have owned for 15/16 years, and added a sale in Vancouver to keep the interest going.  This, nor any sales for my Buyers does not show as activity on this website - I have to get that to work better.

The links for Ucluelet and my bonus $$ offers are now pretty well fixed, so do take a look.  A great time for investment or just vacation/rental opportunities on the opposite end of the peninsula to Tofino, BUT LOTS of properties to consider: give me a call.

More ads and promotions are in the planning phase, but our grand daughter's arrival in January and many other family activities will always mean I am very happy to work, but to provide my clients with the absolute best service, family must drop to second place for selling or buying for YOU.

Back shortly!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Hmm, it has been a while

Yes, busy with potential buyers and forgetting to be opinionated on my blog.

Time goes by fast in the real estate business in Victoria.  The reality is that when other markets are looking a little sad and fluctuate due to many aspects of the economic cycle, the state of things in Victoria rolls along in a steady fashion.  We are influenced of course by interest rates, and early last year had a fast moving market with people trying to get things done prior to the arrival of HST and to take advantage of some incentive programs.

However, we are also favored by those who like the even weather patterns of our west coast living.  Sure we get our share of winter - what would skiing be with out snow, or our salmon rivers without lots of rain. Calls from other parts of Canada are a regular part of our business and we love to arrange to tour our fabulous properties.  The niche market of Ucluelet (you clue let) with which I now have a direct connection is another of our specialties being ideal for the recreational or second property market.  Easily accessed from anywhere, it comes ahead of its neighbor Tofino when it comes to a powerful source of amazingly priced properties in all sectors of this market.  This runs from time-shares, holiday rental properties, hotel units, wonderful view lots at good prices, operational Bed and Breakfasts, fully developed west coast houses - the lot.

With a direct line and agreement to assist in marketing I can put you in touch with ALL of these properties, or will arrange a personal tour to take a close look at a very special and barely noticed market.  Frankly a good time to buy.

So I have to go now and do some entertaining.