Posts by Atrina Kouroshnia

In my previous blog about Canadian mortgages vs. American mortgages, I went over a few of the more important issues you will run into buying south of the border. This…

There are a lot of reasons to be interested in Canadian versus American home mortgages these days. Not only do our respective economies have great influence on one another, Canadians…

Ballooning real estate prices in Vancouver have seen an increasing number of property owners eager to cash in for a substantial profit. That means more and more renters are finding…

Why Being Jet Set Doesn’t Have to be a Hotel Sentence If your work life requires you to be bicoastal, you’re in good company. Former US President Barack Obama and…

The waters of BC may be crystal clear, but the tides of change sweeping the real estate market for foreign buyers have been anything but. With new regulations and changes…

Recently I wrote a blog about starter homes vs. forever homes. What I didn’t mention at the time was the disappointment many of my clients have felt when faced with…

Buy a starter home today and save for a forever home tomorrow? Or make the leap into your dream house at all costs (literally)? From a great investment to an…

With so few options available to those who wish to live in metro Vancouver–either due to unmet demand or financial restrictions (read: dizzying real estate prices)–leaseholds are an option I…

After blizzards of headlines over the last few years, Vancouver real estate is no longer the only dog and pony show around. With a highly inflated housing market where a…

Leave it to the BC real estate market to rattle some cages. Only this time, it’s BC’s mortgage broker regulator, FICOM, that has its hands on the bars. Described as…