http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:45:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/owner-working-finish-mission-hill-kamloops-project/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/owner-working-finish-mission-hill-kamloops-project/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:42:33 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7753 This article was written by Jeremy Deutsch of Kamloops This Week on January 17th, 2012. After sitting idle for more than a year, a controversial condo development has a new owner with a mission. An Edmonton-based real-estate company has been hired to complete construction of the stalled Mission Hill​ development in the West End. Officials [...]

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]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/kamloops-construction-hit-1625-million-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/assessments-dip-time-decade/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/assessments-dip-time-decade/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:14:27 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7602 This article was written by Cam Fortems of the Kamloops Daily News on January 3rd, 2012. The average property assessment in Kamloops declined slightly in 2011, the first time values have gone down in a decade. Homeowners began receiving notices Tuesday from B.C. Assessment Authority. Graham Held, deputy assessor for B.C. Assessment Authority, said the [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/assessments-dip-time-decade/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/builders-hoping-singlefamily-orders-pick-2012/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/builders-hoping-singlefamily-orders-pick-2012/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:47:09 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7535 This article appeared on the Kamloops Daily News on December 23rd, 2011. Multi-family housing and home renovations kept builders busy in 2011, says the president of the Canadian Home Builders Association-Central Interior. But new house construction took a hit, a one-two punch from the global economy and uncertainty around B.C.’s Harmonized Sales Tax, Brian Hayashi [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/builders-hoping-singlefamily-orders-pick-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/sun-peaks-investment-part-maturing-city-economy-kamloops-daily-news/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/sun-peaks-investment-part-maturing-city-economy-kamloops-daily-news/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:09:34 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7505 This article appeared on the Kamloops Daily News on December 12th, 2011 and was written by Cam Fortems. Sun Peaks celebrates its 50th anniversary this season. This is the second in a two-part series highlighting some of the history of the development of the ski resort. There is no bigger or better example of the [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/sun-peaks-investment-part-maturing-city-economy-kamloops-daily-news/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/pharmacist-investing-8-million-north-shore-project-kamloops-daily-news/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/pharmacist-investing-8-million-north-shore-project-kamloops-daily-news/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:59:46 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7502 This article appeared on the Kamloops Daily News on December 12th, 2011 and was written by Catherine Litt. A couple of weeks ago, Daily News reader Aileen Adams asked our Readers’ Reporter to track down the status of three empty lots on Tranquille Road. The properties, all deep in the heart of the North Shore’s [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/pharmacist-investing-8-million-north-shore-project-kamloops-daily-news/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/takers-tobiano-resort/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/takers-tobiano-resort/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:26:36 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7399 This article appeared in the Kamloops This Week on November 24th, 2011 and was written by Jeremy Deutsch. It’s been nearly five months since Tobiano resort went into receivership, but there are still no takers for the financially struggling development. The resort was put on the market in September, with a deadline for offers by [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/takers-tobiano-resort/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/westsyde-residents-cheer-mall-redevelopment-kamloops/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/westsyde-residents-cheer-mall-redevelopment-kamloops/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:26:12 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7402 This article appeared in the Kamloops Daily News on November 15th, 2011. Over the past two decades, Westsyde residents watched with melancholy resignation as stores closed at their mall and buildings fell into disrepair. On Tuesday evening they greeted Overwaitea Food Group’s plans for redevelopment of Westsyde Mall with cheers and clapping. The company unveiled [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/westsyde-residents-cheer-mall-redevelopment-kamloops/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/aberdeen-plan-councils-approval/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/aberdeen-plan-councils-approval/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:38:17 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7382 This article appeared in the Kamloops This Week on November 17th, 2011 and was written by Jeremy Deutsch. A little piece of Scotland will soon be coming to the Tournament Capital. City council has unanimously approved a set of rezoning applications for a large residential development at the end of Bentall Drive in upper Aberdeen. [...]

]]> http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/aberdeen-plan-councils-approval/feed/ 0 http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/rink-misses-payment-deadline-mission-hill-court-challenge-remains/ http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/rink-misses-payment-deadline-mission-hill-court-challenge-remains/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:15:28 +0000 Kirsten Mason http://www.kamloopsrealestateblog.com/?p=7289 This article appeared in the Kamloops Daily News on October 22, 2011 and was written by Cam Fortems. Developer Mike Rink has failed to meet a payment deadline on the half-completed Mission Hill project in Kamloops and continues to face a court challenge in the Shuswap. That Shuswap project, the controversial West Beach Village, is [...]

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