Jaime Briggs Kelowna Real Estate

 MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release March 16, 2012 REALTORS® MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $10,000 Raised for Okanagan Hospice and Women’s Shelter Kelowna, BC – Despite a slowdown in the pace of home sales in the Central Okanagan, thecommunity spirit of local REALTORS® is undeterred.  The members of the Okanagan ...

  By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real EstateJuly 7, 2011High Gas Costs Prompt “Stay-cations” – What Summer Living in the Okanagan is all about!If you’re like most Canadians, you probably wince when you pull up to the gas pumps these days.  It’s already having an impact at how many ‘day trippers’ ...

   By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 23, 2011 The results of the OMREB (Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board) "Buyers Survey" are in.  Here's who's buying property in the Okanagan!  March Survey Highlights: 25.6% of purchases were by Move Up Buyers, 18.9% by First Time Buyers, 13.3% ...

   By Jaime Briggs, Kelowna Real Estate April 14th, 2011 A big thanks to Peter Borszcz, of Pihl & Associates for hosting an exclusive info session for a few of us Realtors on the sale of waterfront property.  Living here in the Okanagan, and Kelowna, our Lake is a huge selling feature and so many people really ...

   By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Monday November 15, 2010 This is HOT off the press!  The 2010 Kelowna Housing Market Forecast has just been released by CMHC (Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corp).  Here are some of their highlights:• Demand for new and existing homes is forecast to pickup in ...

    By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com  April 30th, 2009Here’s a great story from CBS news that talks about the strength of Canadian Banks.   http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4954339nOur market in Canada is very different than in the US. If you have questions on your own ...

  By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Affordability Drives Home Sales HigherVancouver, BC – April 15, 2009. British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports residential sales dollar volume on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in BC declined 35 per cent to $2.3 billion in March, compared to ...

  By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.com Wow!  Are we back to a busier real estate market?  Seems things are certainly heating back up in Kelowna again........ Just in the past 3 weeks, there has been 171 property sales in Kelowna, with an average price of $381K.  Personally, I have never been busier than ...

  By Jaime Briggs, REALTOR® www.BriggsOnHomes.comHOME SALES INCREASED IN FEBRUARY!! ….This is great news for our markets here in Kelowna and around BC.  The low interest rates and awesome deals out there have spurred on a lot of fresh activity in the real estate market and an increase in sales!The February’09 Stats ...

Credit conditions easing, banks no longer struggling to raise funds to make loans From Tuesday's Globe and MailMarch 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT Canadian banks are turning down some of the funding that the government is making available to them, a sign that they are recuperating from the financial crisis. The banks have stopped selling the ...