Communication challenges of Change

Communication challenges of Change
Excerpt of an interesting conversation on communicating change.  I briefly had talked to an associate not in real estate but in the building maintenance industry on change challenge. It was observed that for a segment of the population change is not considered positive and for most people some changes are considered unpleasant.  [...]

Cyber Time complications

Cyber Time complications
An observation that I made when dealing with time perceptions of people when dealing from cyber to real world is as follows.  It seems that when one spends a long duration of time on the internet it may affect how time is perceived to operate at.  For example a person maybe searching an [...]

A brief collection of Japan Earthquake links of educational interest

 
  A brief collection of links of educational interest on the dynamic earthquake situation in Japan.  Some notes of interest that seem to yet from my small viewpoint have been reported little on are: Warnings to keep upwind of fires as the smoke carries from some of these fires a mixture of hazardous materials and so [...]

Gold panning and Gardening in BC

Well have been invited to go gold panning in the near future by a friend so will be digging out my gold pans and hiking gear for a small adventure trip it seems. From an experience perspective if one has the opportunity to learn and try gold panning it really teaches perseverance and patience [...]

Recent Vancouver March Stats for Real Estate in Feb

REBGV reports increased housing demand in February
VANCOUVER, B.C. – March 2, 2011 – Demand for detached homes continues to be strong across Greater Vancouver, with
particularly high sales volumes occurring in Richmond and Vancouver Westside.
For the past two months, the number of properties listed for sale and those sold on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®)
in Greater [...]

Going to Events of the last few days

I like expanding my mental and experience horizons by going to different events and then mashing the information together. I went to the “BC Home + Garden Show” still going on at the Vancouver Convention Centre till Sunday. Interesting with some live singing and met a few of those tv demonstrators you see [...]

Feb news release and stats on Vancouver real estate

News Release
  

Stability and regional ‘hot spots’ characterize
 

January housing market

VANCOUVER, B.C. – February 2, 2011 –
in January, although higher levels of buyer demand were seen in some of the region’s largest communities.
The number of properties listed for sale and those sold on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) last month outpaced the
10-year average in both categories for [...]