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Blue Mountain Estates: Consists of four townhouses within two duplexes. This amazing three bedroom + LOFT home is centrally located in the heart of Coquitlam. Walking distance from shopping, restaurants, schools, parks, Vancouver Golf Club and much more... Features include: built in dishwasher, microwave, wall oven, gas cook top, stainless steel appliances & chrome fixtures, quartz kitchen & bathroom counter tops, wood laminate/tile & carpet flooring, birch wood custom kitchen & bathroom cabinets with soft closing drawers and adjustable shelving, fireplace, skylights, double glazed windows. Lighting fixtures include one chandelier, two pendants & three bathroom lights. Don’t miss out.


For further information contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846 or Email: carmen@carmenleal.ca

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New Listing for sale at 302 4372 Nicola Street and currently listed at $308,800





 


The Sheridan: Four Level Boutique Style Building. A very private building with 10 residential units and a cafe downstairs. This one bedroom plus den is located in a great location with easy access to downtown Vancouver & community activities. Features inclue a balcony, in-suite laundry, shower & tub, in-suite storage, secured bike area, eco-friendly energy efficient windows, stainless steel appliances, nine-foot ceilings, and an outside court yard. Located near the center of the city, public transit, restaurants/lounges, bakeries, coffee shops, grocery stores, schools, Riley Park community center & Queen Elizabeth park with its Pitch & Putt Golf course and much more 

 

For a private viewing contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846.


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Great starter home or vacation home. Steps from Davie and Denman St. and five minutes to the beach. solid concrete building & very solid strata. Great size outdoor balcony overlooking a quiet treed street. Updates done in 2010 included. Bamboo floors throughtout new bath with vanity and vessel sink, new kitchen with sleek white lacquer cabinets, ebony countertops and dishwasher/stove/fridge. Any size pet is allowed. 

 

Interested in finding a similar property as this one? Don't hesistate to give Carmen Leal a call at 604-218-4846 or E: carmen@carmenleal.ca

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New Listing for sale at 3005 833 Seymour Street and currently listed at $562,000



 

I am proud to present this luxurious one bedroom apartment withh amazing views of the city with South East exposure in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Floor to ceiling windows and white marble flooring, gourmet kitchen with a gas range cook-top, granite counter tops & stainless steel appliances and a spa inspired bathroom all with high end finishing's. Close to the Orpheum, shops, restaurants, transit and the enterainment district. This luxurious one bedroom includes a flex room, in-suite laundry, and one underground parking, concierge servie, fitness centre, media room & four high speek elevators. An ideal home for the young professional or investor in a highly sought after building. 

For a private viewing contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846.



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New Listing for sale at 201-4372 Fraser Street and currently listed at $268,000

 

 

 

 

The Sheridan: Four Level Boutique Style Building. Very private building with 10 residential units and a cafe downstairs. Located in a great location with easy access to downtown Vancouver & community activities. Features include a 25 sqft patio, in-suite laundry, lots of storage, secured bike area, eco friendly energy efficient windows, stainless steel appliances, nine foot ceilings, and an outside courtyard. Located near the center of the city, public transit, restaurants/lounges, bakeries, coffee shops, grocery stores, schools, Riley Park Community Center & Queen Elizabeth Park with its Pitch and Putt Golf courses and much more.  For a private viewing contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846.


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Be prepared to feel the heat if you’re in the housing market. The British Columbia Real Estate Association released their second quarter results, and demand for homes in the province are the highest they’ve been since 2007.
According to the report, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley are leading BC’s housing growth with a 16 and 17 percent increase in sales, respectively.
Demand for single family homes in Vancouver will go down, while demand for apartments will go up, so expect to see more construction of multi-family buildings over the next year.
The city will also see the average home price shoot to $870,000, which is an increase of seven percent. The board says to expect that number to grow to nearly $900,000 in 2016.
“Market conditions in Vancouver have improved as a result of consumer demand rising faster than the number of homes for sale. While the market is exhibiting sellers’ market conditions overall, there is variability according to product type and its location in the region,” reads the report.
The BCREA notes that foreign investment persists, but it remains a “relatively small, niche market” in the luxury sector.
The average price for an apartment in Vancouver is $465,000, up 1.4 percent.
 
For more information on the Vancouver Real Estate Market Contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846 or send an email towww.carmenleal.ca
 
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New Listing for sale at 179 Furry Creek Drive and currently listing at $1,488,800

 

 

 

 

Most exquisite home at Furry Creek. Built with the finest materials which includes limestone floors, edge grain Fir window frames, baseboards and casing. Amazing water front views of Howe Sound and spectacluar mountain views. Designed by Architect Fook Weng Chan. Lower level of the home there is a Spa that is built on a rock. If you have a love for Nature & Design this is the home for you! For a private viewing contact Carmen Leal at 604-218-4846.

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New Listing for sale at 169 Furry Creek Drive and currently listed at $1,180,000

 

 

Beautiful panoramic view of Howe Sound and panoramic mountain views. This home is located in a private and quiet cul-de-sac. This West Coast Contemporary home designed by architect Fook Weng Chan has a great Fung Shui & functional layout. Floor to ceiling windows & skylights throughout make the home light up with natural light. Furry Creek golf course located just outside your door with beautiful landscape surrounding your home. Features include an open concept kitchen with granite countertops, gas cooktop & built-in wall oven. Custom maple paneling and in-floor radiant heating throughout the home with cozy gas fireplaces, shower/steam bath in master bathroom, & much much more… 

 

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New Listing for sale at 6925 Marine Drive and currently listed at $1,359,000

 

Warm and inviting contemporary home located on completely privat 11,238sq.ft. lot backing onto Whytecliff Park. This 5 bedroom home has recently undergone a substantial renovation and is in pristine condition. Situated just a block up from Batchelor Bay, one of our favourite places, and just a short walk to Whytecliff Park. A 3min drive along Marine Drive takes you to the Geneagles Rec Centre, a beautiful 9 hole Golf Course, and top-ranked Gleneagles Elementary School. The home is currently set up as a two family residence or mortgage helper with separate entrances. 1 bedroom penthouse suite is legal & registered. Open spacious floor plan, 3 fireplaces, vaulted ceilings, and private garden deck. Priced below Bc Assessment.


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Sunday, March 22 from 2:30pm to 4:00pm

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Carmen Leal accepts her Sales Achievement Award from Macdonald Realty's President and CEO Lynn Hsu. This award recognizes her status as a Top Producer for the Downtown-Vancouver office in 2014. 

 

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March 2015

 

      

Macdonald Realty Luxury Homes, Spring 2015 digital edition

The latest edition of our magazine presents many of Macdonald Realty's finest listings in what is traditionally the most active season of the year.

While flipping through, watch out for the new feature pages; we are pleased to highlight local artists and designers, and also cast our spotlight on a sampling of exceptional British Columbia wines.

Please click the cover above to enjoy this edition - and feel free to call or email if you have any questions or comments.

 

 

February Market Review

Do you wondering how last month's market activity compares with this same time last year? Click the link below to our market statistic infographics where we break it down to even the neighbourhood level.

If you have questions about the status of the current market, please do not hesitate to ask me.

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Metro Vancouver real estate bidding wars spreading to suburbs

Falling interest rates and declining inventory are driving sales, say experts.

According to Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board president Ray Harris, there were 14 per cent fewer properties listed for sale across the region this past January when compared with January 2014.

"This is creating greater competition amongst buyers, particularly in the detached home market. The number of detached homes listed for sale today is the second lowest we've seen in four years," said Harris.

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Vancouver firm offers a one-stop real estate shop for Chinese investors in B.C.

When Vancouver-based Macdonald Realty dispatched Dan Scarrow, the agency's vice-president of corporate strategy, to China last March to investigate the feasibility of launching a branch office in Shanghai, the assignment was initially only going to be for four months.

A year later, Scarrow, a second-generation Chinese Canadian who is fluent in Mandarin, is still there. The Vancouver Sun reached Scarrow in Shanghai by phone last week to discuss his progress, objectives and challenges in building a bridge for residential and commercial real estate investment between China and British Columbia as the new managing director of Macdonald's Canadian Real Estate Investment Centre in Shanghai.

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Market News

With deep ties, B.C., Alberta adjust to a new real estate reality (The Globe and Mail)

Is it time to sell your U.S. snowbird property? (The Globe and Mail)

Lower Mainland News

It's Cinderella time for North Vancouver as house prices shoot up (The Globe and Mail)

In Vancouver, wealthy home buyers want it all - right down to the cutlery (The Globe and Mail)

Vancouver housing prices rise, but folks keep on buying (Barbara Yaffe for The Vancouver Sun)

Victoria & Vancouver Island News

Victoria's Bay Centre sold (BIV)

Island real-estate sales slump but prices holding (Oceanside Star)

Greater Victoria's February real estate sales blossom forth (Times Colonist)

February sales reflect strong, balanced market conditions (Campbell River Mirror)

Okanagan News

Oilpatch downturn slows Okanagan real estate market (The Province)

Chinese investors target hotels, wineries, mineral water in British Columbia (South China Morning Post)

 


 

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With its eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, coffee shops, heritage homes, condo developments, pedestrian friendly streets and accessibility to transit including the 10th Avenue Bike Route, the 99 B-Line bus and the Canada Line, Mountain Pleasant has become one the city's hottest real estate markets.   
 
 
Bounded by Cambie Street to the west and Clark Drive to the east, Second Avenue and Great Northern Way to the north and 16th Avenue and Kingsway to the south, Mount Pleasant is one of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods and considered by some to be the city's first suburb. Home to several breweries, creeks and fish-bearing streams in the late 1800s, hence its original nickname Brewery Creek, the area was annexed by the city in 1911 and grew into a bustling working class neighbourhood, luring first-time homeowners with more affordable real estate than on the city's West Side.
By the 1970s and '80s, Mount Pleasant had lost much of its bloom, garnering an unwanted reputation for its dilapidated houses, seedy back alleys and street prostitution. But as is often the case, cheap rent and real estate once again gave way to an influx of young families, first-time home buyers, independent business owners and creative types.
By the 1990s, gentrification was in full swing, and by the early 2000s new breeds of Mount Pleasant residents began shaping the neighbourhood and its image - developers, amateur real estate speculators, condo-flippers and that broad stereotype of the Pabst Blue Ribbon-swilling, fixed gear bike-riding Main Street hipster. Efforts to rebrand the area as SOMA (South of Main) have been met with mixed reactions, and the area is ground zero for the city's so-called east-west divide, which occurs along Ontario Street.
With its eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, coffee shops, heritage homes, condo developments, pedestrian friendly streets and accessibility to transit including the 10th Avenue Bike Route, the 99 B-Line bus and the Canada Line, Mountain Pleasant has become one the city's hottest real estate markets.
Depending on whom you ask, the community is undergoing a "rapid and exciting transformation" or at risk of losing the very characteristics that made it attractive in the first place, as witnessed by the heated debate over the proposed RIZE condo tower and the expansion of the Kingsgate Mall proposal.
Whatever the case, Mount Pleasant continues to charm. In November it was announced that social media company Hootsuite had outgrown its Railtown nest and struck a deal with the city to move its head office to a 33,000-square-foot, two-storey office building in near Main and Broadway, ushering in yet another phase of this ever-changing neighbourhood.
 

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Macdonald Realty Ltd.
www.CarmenLeal.ca
604-218-4846
 

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It's ironic that a city famous for its old-fashioned liquor laws owes its origins to an unlicensed saloon. Back in the mid-1800s, New Westminster was the Lower Mainland’s only bustling city while the area now known as Gastown was a sparsely populated neck of the woods called Luck Lucky (or Luk’luk’i, meaning “grove of maple trees”) by the Coast Salish people and populated primarily by a few dozen millworkers.
This all changed in 1867 after a Yorkshireman and former Fraser River steamship captain by the name of John “Gassy Jack” Deighton pulled up in a canoe with a barrel of whiskey and told locals they could drink their fill if they helped build him a pub.
The story goes that the Globe Saloon — located near where a statue of its founder now stands at the corner of Water Street and Carrall — was open for business less than 24 hours later, and a makeshift community soon sprung up around the new watering hole that became known as Gassy’s Town.
(“Gassy,” it should be noted, was a former colloquial term for being talkative, and the hard-drinking Deighton was known for his loquaciousness rather than for gastrointestinal reasons.)
A massive fire burnt the settlement to the ground in 1886 but a new community quickly reappeared due to the arrival of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway on the nearby waterfront the same year.
The actual boundaries of Vancouver’s earliest neighbourhood aren’t strictly defined but are generally considered to stretch eastward from Richards Street between Water and Hastings streets as far as Main Street.
Gastown eventually fell on hard times after becoming overshadowed by the downtown area and was set to be demolished back in the ‘70s until a group of citizens successfully lobbied the city for a heritage preservation order.
A dedicated effort to clean up the area has since pushed the grittier elements to the Downtown Eastside.
While some decry the gentrification of the city’s historic district, whose cobblestone streets and antique street lamps provide a one-of-a-kind ambience, others take pride in the area’s recent emergence as both a tourist attraction and hotspot for upscale businesses and restaurants.
 

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Carmen Leal
Macdonald Realty Ltd.
www.CarmenLeal.ca
604-218-4846
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In Yaletown - the sliver of a neighbourhood on the north side of False Creek in the downtown peninsula - it's all about seeing and being seen. Living la dolce vita, eating out, spending money, working out and being pampered. From the chic restaurants with their outdoor patio dining, to the brow and lash salons, hot yoga studios, and specialty shops featuring high-end gifts for the young urban professional who has everything, Yaletown is a magnet for couples in their 20s and 30s who aren't quite ready yet (if ever) to start a family and buy a house in the 'burbs.
In the late 1980s, Yaletown was a landscape of ageing brick warehouses, light industry, and parking lots. Back then, it was possible to cheaply rent space in a dusty old warehouse that had yet to be renovated, reaching your funky studio via an industrial, hand-operated elevator. In the mid-1990s, the first "warehouse conversions" turned these buildings into chic condos.
In 1886, the Canadian Pacific Railway moved its divisional headquarters, formerly located in Yale (thus, "Yaletown") to a spot near the foot of modern Drake Street. The CPR Roundhouse, built in 1888, became a community centre in 1997. In an 1893 map, the city remains undeveloped east of Homer Street and south of Smithe Street. Warehouses and factories were built in the 1910s. A 1927 map shows Hamilton and Mainland streets extending south to Drake Street.
Today, the west sides of these streets still have raised loading docks (today's sidewalks) that once fronted warehouses. Industry exists in name only; Coopers' Park is named for the former Sweeney Cooperage, a barrel manufacturing company from the early 1920s to 1981. The Canada Line, with its Yaletown-Roundhouse stop, in 2009 brought rapid transit to an area already served by bus, and by "aquabus" links across False Creek. The 2011 Statistics Canada census reported Yaletown's population density as 130.6 persons per hectare. In comparison, the highrise apartments of Downtown South, immediately west, has 304 persons per hectare.
 

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Macdonald Realty Ltd.
www.CarmenLeal.ca
604-218-4846
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VANCOUVER REAL ESTATE INFORMATION SEMINAR FOR FIRST HOME BUYERS &/or INVESTORS.
This is a one on one sit down meeting which you will have 15mins to pick my brain !

BRING IN YOUR QUESTIONS AND I WILL GUIDE YOU ON THE RIGHT 

PATH.

***BY APPOINTMENT ONLY***

DATE: SUNDAY MARCH 8 

LOCATION: 1050 HOWE STREET, VANCOUVER BC 

TIME: 1:30PM TO 4PM

15MIN TIME SLOTS

TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT CONTACT ME AT 604-218-4846 OR EMAIL ME AT CARMEN@CARMENLEAL.CA

OR JUST DROP BY AND SAY HI.

YOURS,

 

Carmen Leal

Macdonald Realty Ltd.

www.CarmenLeal.ca

604.218.484

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Vancouver-Downtown: The neighbourhood at a glance

 
 
Hewn over 120 years ago from forest, rock and swampland, downtown Vancouver and its shoreline have been dredged, back-filled, paved over and built up to become the glass metropolis it is today. Seen from a distance, the skyscrapers and towers of the downtown peninsula glisten on postcards, their constructed beauty still contained within the majesty of B.C.s wilderness.
What tourists photo leaves out the North Shore mountains, Stanley Park and the three bodies of water that border downtowns city of glass?
Seen up close, the downtown stretches north to south from False Creek to the Burrard Inlet, begins in the west at Burrard Street, includes Coal Harbour (a sliver of high-rises north of Georgia), and to the west even counts Science World.
A renovated B.C. Place changed the skyline and three professional sport franchises (hockey, football and soccer) remain an entertainment draw along with the neighbourhoods concentration of clubs, theatres, restaurants and galleries.
The Vancouver Business Improvement Area claims more than 8,000 businesses, half of which employ less than five people (one third employ five to 20 people), as well as the central offices that drive B.C.s resource and energy sectors. Each work day, 57,000 trips are made through Waterfront Station.
Over the decades, the commercial centre has moved from a townsite called Granville closer to actual Granville Street and with each generation, neighbourhoods distinguished themselves economically and culturally. Gastown, Yaletown, Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside are not strictly part of the downtown. They are their own places.
Named the worlds most livable city for five years until 2011, Vancouver slipped to third behind Melbourne and Vienna. Affordability (or a lack thereof) can make the lifestyle and attractiveness inhospitable, which the Royal Bank of Canada described in 2012 as extremely poor and the least affordable in the country.
In 30 years, the neighbourhood became the most populated and the most dense in the city. Only two per cent, roughly 6,600 people, called the downtown home in 1971. In 2011, about 54,000 people lived downtown.
 

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Carmen Leal
Macdonald Realty Ltd.
www.CarmenLeal.ca
604-218-4846
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