Jaime Briggs Kelowna Real Estate

December 1, 2008 By Jaime Briggs www.BriggsOnHomes.com Thanks to Stephanie Ostash with the Mortgage Centre

January 2009 - Kelowna Market Update for all Buyers, Sellers and Investors of Real Estate By Jaime Briggs,

January 28, 2009 By Jaime Briggs - www.BriggsOnHomes.com Good morning everyone; The federal budget released

February 3, 2009 By Jaime Briggs - www.BriggsOnHomes.com Home Inspectors Licensing Good for Consumers

February 3, 2009 By Jaime Briggs - www.BriggsOnHomes.com Recessionary Conditions Slow Housing Market

February 11, 2009 By Jaime Briggs - www.BriggsOnHomes.com Are you looking for a place to rent? Coldwell

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com IS THE KELOWNA REAL ESTATE MARKET HEATING UP? I know

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com HOME SALES INCREASED IN FEBRUARY!! …. This

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Wow! Are we back to a busier real estate market?

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Affordability Drives Home Sales Higher Vancouver,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com April 30th, 2009 Here’s a great story from

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com April 2009 was the 3rd month of Increased Home Sales

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com July 13, 2009 - Kelowna Market Update for all Buyers,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com New BC Survey Suggests Real Estate Purchase Confidence

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 13, 2009 - JULY SALES WAY UP, INVENTORY DOWN,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com BC Home Sales Brightest Light in Economy BCREA Forecast

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com September 17, 2009 REAL ESTATE MARKET RECOVERING!

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com September 21, 2009 MLS® home sales remain strong

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com COLDWELL BANKER® RELEASES ANNUAL LIST OF MOST

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com October 29, 2009 September 2009 stats are out and

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com November 2, 2009 This just in from CMHC! Kelowna

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE IS COURTESY OF THE CMHC:

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Market Strength Extends Through 2010 BCREA Fall 2009

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com October Home Sales Highest in Six Years Vancouver,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release November 19, 2009

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Owning a Home Vs. Renting If you’ve recently

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Strata lot ownership is “having title to real

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release November Home Sales Continue

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release December Home Sales Second

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release Gold Medal Recovery Limited

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com February 5, 2010 LESS LISTINGS ~ MORE SALES! January

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release BC Home Sales Moderate in January

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Thanks to Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Thanks to Rod Gibbings, Investors Group. If you waited

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Thanks to Peter Borszcz, Pihl & Associates Lawyers

Thursday April 1, 2010 By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Thanks to Julie Weimer, RBC

Tuesday April 13th, 2010 By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com BC Home Sales Moderate in

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com April 15, 2010 The Spring Real Estate market is FINALLY

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com April 26, 2010 BC Real Estate Association Encourages

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com May 5, 2010 The March 2010 Kelowna Real Estate stats

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com May 14, 2010 BC Home Sales Less Volatile Vancouver,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com June 1st, 2010 Bank of Canada increases overnight

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com June 4th, 2010 BC Real Estate Markets Cool Down –

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com June 7th, 2010 For immediate release Housing Market

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release Home Buyers Facing Less Competition

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com MEDIA RELEASE - For Immediate Release: July 7, 2010

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com July 15th, 2010 For immediate release Housing Market

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 4, 2010 BC Home Sales to Rise in 2011 BCREA

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 4, 2010 The July 2010 Kelowna Real Estate

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 12, 2010 For immediate release Home Buyers

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 12, 2010 Thanks to Peter Borszcz, Pihl &

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com REPOSTED ARTICLE FROM OMREB WEBSITE September 8,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com August 2010 Central Okanagan (Kelowna) Real Estate

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release Low Mortgage Rates Boost August

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Market Conditions Beginning to Improve Vancouver,

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com November 4, 2010 What a beautiful Fall we have had

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com November 8, 2010 Thanks to Mark Clifton, Invis for

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release BC Home Sales Trend Higher

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Monday November 15, 2010 This is HOT off the press!

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com December 3, 2010 Serious Home Buyers Leveraging Purchasing

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Vancouver, BC – December 14, 2010. The British

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com November 2010 Kelowna Real Estate Market Update -

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Tuesday December 21, 2010 Great information here

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Monday January 17, 2010 Flaherty tightens mortgage

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Record Home Prices for 2010 Vancouver, BC –

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com January 26th, 2011 This is a few weeks old, but great

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Home sales remain a buyers market by Castanet Staff

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com For immediate release Housing Market Continues Normalization

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Wednesday February 16th, 2011 Thought I would repost

By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Home Sales to Climb Eight Per Cent in 2011 BCREA

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate www.BriggsOnHomes.com I came across this great article today and

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate www.BriggsOnHomes.com February 2011 Kelowna Real Estate Market Update

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate www.BriggsOnHomes.com Ever wonder where home buyers come from? Since

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate www.BriggsOnHomes.com March 3, 2011 Housing Market in the Okanagan

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate www.BriggsOnHomes.com March 3, 2011 I received this interesting

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate March 2011 The March 2011 Kelowna real estate stats have just been

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 14th, 2011 A big thanks to Peter Borszcz, of Pihl & Associates

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 18th, 2011 Just released from BCREA this morning! For immediate

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 21, 2011

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate Just received this email this morning from Spagnuolo and Company.

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 23, 2011 The results of the OMREB (Okanagan Mainline Real

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate Monday May 9th, 2011 Just released from BCREA today . . . April

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate May 12th, 2011 For immediate release Home Sales Slow After Strong

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate May 12, 2011 I was shocked to see how poorly the April 2011 real

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate May 20, 2011 The results of OMREB's April 2011 Buyers Survey

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate May 30, 2011 CMHC (Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation) has

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate June 15, 2011 This report just released courtesy of the BCREA. For

May Buyer's Survey - Over 50% of Home Buyers Still from within Okanagan! By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna

Kelowna Real Estate Market Update - BCREA Forecasts Home Sales to Rise 5% this year

Media Release from the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board - Kelowna Real Estate market slighly down for June 2011, but moving into a more stable summer.  Kelowna Real Estate News from BriggsOnHomes and Jaime Briggs.

High gas prices prompt "Stay-cations", your stay at home Vacation!  What summer living in the Okanagan is all about!

Kelowna real estate market update for June 2011.  What's happening in Kelowna and how did our real estate market perform last month?

Buyers' Market Continues as Summer Arrives - Results of the July 2011 Kelowna Real Estate Market Update

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate The following media release was just announced today from OMREB.

By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate September 14th, 2011 I had the pleasure last night of attending

Who's Buying Homes in The Okanagan?  Results of August 2011 Kelowna Real Estate Buyer's Survey by BriggsOnHomes

Kelowna Real Estate - October 2011 Real Estate Market Update - Okanagan-Shuswap Housing Market Showing Signs of Stability Going into Fall

Dealing with Underground Oil Storage Tanks on a Property.  Kelowna Real Estate information from Jaime Briggs, and BriggsOnHomes.com

October 2011 - Kelowna Real Estate Market Update

Despite so much negativity about the real estate market, it's clear to see that the Kelowna Real Estate Market for 2011 has "stayed it's course" and is nearly "on par" with 2010.  No.  There has been no further big drops in our market, other than what we originally saw with the start of the recession in Fall 2009.

With hints of rising interest rates upon us and forecasts for 2012 Kelowna home prices to go up +3% it definitely is A GREAT TIME TO BUY!

CMHC has just released their Fall 2011 Kelowna housing market forecast.  Things are definitely looking more positive than they have been in the past.  For the full story go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com or call Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate at 250-860-7500.

Kelowna, BC – The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board (OMREB) reported November 2011 sales activity of all MLS® property types were up 9% over this time last year as the housing market continues to normalize, prices stabilize and inventory declines moving into winter and year-end.

For more Kelowna Real Estate news and trends call Jaime Briggs, Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty at 250-860-7500 or go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com

BCREA Announces - Déjà Vu in November Housing Market

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Here's the results of the survey "Who Bought Homes in Kelowna this November and where did they come from?"  Again, most buyers are actually from within our own Okanagan region.

For more details on Kelowna Real Estate call Jaime Briggs at 250-860-7500, or go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com

I'm actually feeling quite optimistic going into 2012.  In my mind, the Kelowna Real Estate Market for 2011 actually ended off quite good considering.  Well, 'quite good' compared to what all the negative nay-sayers out there keep saying about the real estate market.  And really when we look at the year-end 2011 stats, what's not to love about them?  Again anything is better than what occurred a few years back. So to have a year, similar to last year, means that the Kelowna real estate market has returned to a stable market. And December too really finished off with a bang...!

For more Kelowna Real Estate, call Jaime Briggs at 250-860-7500 or go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com

BCREA Reports - Home Sales Increase Last Year.  The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that the dollar volume of homes sold through Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in BC climbed 14.3 per cent to $43.1 billion in 2011. A total of 76,817 homes were sold in BC in 2011, up 2.9 per cent from 2010. The average annual MLS® residential price climbed 11.1 per cent to $561,026 over the same period.

For more Kelowna Real Estate call Jaime Briggs, Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty at 250-860-7500 or go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com

Are you always wondering WHO is buying homes here in the Okanagan and WHERE are they coming from?  Welll. . .  The results of OMREB's December 2011 Buyers Survey are in!

For more Kelowna Real Estate, go to www.BriggsOnHomes.com

BCREA Reports - Average Performance for Housing Market in 2012

“Modest economic growth at home and abroad is expected to limit growth in consumer demand both this year and in 2013,” said Cameron Muir, BCREA Chief Economist.

BC Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales are forecast to increase 2.1 per cent from 76,817 units in 2011 to 78,400 units this year, increasing a further 2.7 per cent to 80,500 units in 2013. The 15-year average is 79,000 unit sales. A record 106,310 MLS® residential sales were recorded in 2005.