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		<title>Resale Residential Condominiums In Victoria – Market Report for February 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month I made a minor correction in how I go about searching for pre-owned condominium properties. As a result, there may be a minor disconnect with earlier monthly reports. For example, were I to go back to last month, my revised methodology would lead to 158 condo listings versus the 164 I reported. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resale Single Family Homes In Victoria – Market Report for February 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to reports in the local Victoria newspaper, overall sales in the Greater Victoria Area were up in February about 63% over January, which is encouraging economic news for everyone. This report has a slightly narrower focus, covering only previously owned single family homes located within the core area of Victoria (which includes Victoria, Oak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resale Residential Condominiums In Victoria – Market Report for January 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Condos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Home  Market Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chart 1 collects 12 month cumulative listings and sales for the past two years: one year ago annual listings totaled 2,112, and to the end of January 2009 were up by a small margin to about 2,304. Annual sales on the other hand continued to travel in the opposite direction: the recent total was 1,157, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resale Single Family Homes In Victoria – Market Report for January 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Home  Market Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Property Values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://victoriarealestatenow.com/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you follow reports in the Victoria Times Colonist you may have noticed a few days ago that some real estate agents were reporting activity seems to be increasing. It will be interesting to see whether that anecdotal evidence has actually resulted in any measurable marketplace changes yet. 
Today&#8217;s report covers two years, ending January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secondary Suites In Victoria Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buying Victoria Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First time home buyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two most limiting conditions are:

the existing home must have a minimum of 150 square meters (1,615 sq feet) of living space meeting minimum height requirements of 2.15 meters (interpreted as 7 feet). Adding space in which to create a suite is off-side. There are also minimum and maximum size requirements for the suite itself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Suitable Is Victoria For Solar Water Heat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar water heating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe in the middle of rainy January, but Victoria has an annual average sunshine of 2,233 hours (I looked it up!). 
Here&#8217;s another bit of trivia: Usedom Island in Germany boasts of 1,906 hours, the highest amount of annual sunshine in that country.
The reason I mention these &#8217;stats&#8217; is because Germany has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-owned Victoria Condo Market Report – December 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Median property values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Condos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Home  Market Report]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://victoriarealestatenow.com/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I did a year-end report on single family market activity.  This is a corresponding report for condominiums in the core area of Victoria (defined as  (Victoria, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, and Saanich).  It follows essentially the same format as my report on Victoria condo properties for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Funds Energy Efficiency Retrofits For Low-income Housing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ photo credit: anneh632
On December 1, 2008 the BC Government announced it will invest $17,000,000 to help low income families realize the benefits of energy efficient housing. The money will be spent to identify, evaluate, and implement the best retrofit opportunities to improve energy efficiency. 
The government estimates a typical household cost will be about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-owned Homes In Victoria – Market Report for December 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone.
The very first thing to talk about in 2009 is 2008. It was quite a year, and this post is an end-of-the-year report of pre-owned single family home sales activity.  The report covers two years, ending December 31, 2008, and covers used homes located in the core area of Victoria (Victoria, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid December Peek at Victoria Residential Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Boan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With snow on the ground and temperatures hovering around -2C (but headed lower), it&#8217;s a good time to stay warm and take a quick look at some pre-Christmas market stats.  I&#8217;ll report in more detail for December 2008 early in January.  Today&#8217;s figures are for the first half of December. 

 The Victoria [...]]]></description>
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