Tag: Real Estate
Find out how you can get your children in the housing market!
Are you shocked with Canadas Mortgage rates on a rapid rise? Have trouble getting your children involved in the housing market? 90% of first-time B.C home purchasers in B.C receive assistance from their parents. High housing prices in B.C. make it difficult for first-time home purchasers to rely on their parents for down payments. […]
BC’s Top 5 Most Affordable Large Cities
If you could live anywhere in BC, where would you live? To help you answer this question, Zolo Homebase has compiled a list of Top Most Affordable Cities in BC. The ranking considered cities of more than 100,000 people and considered three factors when coming up with a score: housing affordability, economic strength, and potential […]
One-Click Mortgages Help Borrowers Win the Bidding Wars
Financing a home can often be stressful, demanding, time-consuming, and exhausting. Some may consider the process as a “bidding war” as it often brings many casualties to your finances. However, to help combat these obstacles, Tri-City News introduces the Vancouver-based company, WiiBid, as a seamless system for online, one-click mortgages. The article describes WiiBId’s platform […]
Canada’s “Bubbly” Housing Market Could Be Risky for Homebuyers
Canada’s real-estate market has entered a bubble with two new reports, reinforcing fears among housing experts who believe that the housing market is becoming further detached from the fundamentals. Bloomberg, the global news and data firm, generated a “Bubble Ranking”, consisting of country scores based on home buying and real-estate factors: costs of buying a […]
6 Tips for First-Time Home Buyers in BC
Making your first home purchase in BC can be a difficult process. Having to deal with finances, fees, and the surge in home prices in the past few months altogether may lead you to feeling discouraged. According to a recent poll from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), more than a third (36%) of non-homeowners under 40 […]
BC Fintech Equips Homebuyers with the Right Mortgage Tools
With the current state of BC’s red-hot real estate market, it is more important than ever for Vancouver homebuyers to have access to the right tools and to connect with the right people. And The Province provides homebuyers a glimpse into the innovative tools, technology, and open marketplace, that is WiiBid. The print article features Vikas […]
BC Fintech Equips Homebuyers with the Right Mortgage Tools
With the current state of BC’s red-hot real estate market, it is more important than ever for Vancouver homebuyers to have access to the right tools and to connect with the right people. And Vancouver Sun provides homebuyers a glimpse into the innovative tools, technology, and open marketplace, that is WiiBid. The article features Vikas […]
4 Key Factors to Know When Buying an Investment Property
Real estate investment has always ranked as a top wealth generating investment approach. According to the College Investor, “Over the last two centuries, about 90 percent of the world’s millionaires have been created by investing in real estate”. Considering the competitive market with extremely high demand, unpredictable conditions related to COVID, and the unprecedented low interest rates, […]
Avoid FOMO and Prep for BC’s Rising Markets
According to RBC economics, “the coming months could see prices accelerating further with some of the stronger increases taking place in smaller markets”. This has led to a vast number of buyers going full force in resales fueled by low interest rates, changing housing needs, high household savings, and perhaps nervousness about the increasing prices […]
Staging Matters: 7 Tips to make the Best first Impression
In a seller’s market, you may ask, is staging relevant? The answer is yes. Selling your home can be challenging because we all form memories of where we lived, and we see it as such a valuable thing. While the right person buying your home will likely love it as much as you did, you […]
New Mortgage Company Puts the Power in Borrowers’ Hands
The Northshore News released an inciting article this March that covers WiiBid’s overarching goal of shifting the power dynamics within the mortgage industry by putting the power back in borrower’s hands. The newly released article outlines valuable statements from the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Amin Eskooch who capitalizes on the lack of transparency […]
Bidding Wars & Tax Incentives In Real Estate
When the world changed this time last year, we saw unemployment rates at a low with the decrease in the housing market and mostly every other market. Today, a year later we now see the prices of homes in Canada on an uprise, with many homes going hundreds of thousands of dollars over not only […]
What are the top 3 property types you will find in British Columbia
There are many different forms of properties in the world anywhere from a bungalow to a castle. In British Columbia these are the three main types of properties you will find; Condominiums (Condos) Townhouses Detached Homes Condominiums A condominium is also known as a condo, is a privately owned resistance within a larger building or […]