About Capital Area, BC

It's a big decision to change offices. I'm a firm believer, though, in the axiom that change brings opportunity.

Yes, change can be "scary", and it can be challenging.

It can also lead to the kind of shift that results in being in the flow of the moment.

Recently, I decided to leave Re/Max, and to join the Sea to Sky Premier Properties company, based in Whistler, and with an affiliation with Christies Great Estates.

I continue to live and to work on Salt Spring Island, and am the Sea to Sky company's representative on Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, Penders, and the "water access only" options in between).

It's "biz as usual", and I continue to do all of the many extras that I offer, as an individual real estate agent, in this secondary home marketplace. The connection with this Whistler based company will amplify what I do.

Please call, for more details.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Li Read,

Associate Broker,

Sea to Sky Premier Properties

www.liread.com

email: liread33@gmail.com

Toll free: 1-866-405-9229

Cell: 250-537-7647

Look forward to your call!

Victoria BC Real Estate Fall is in the Air...October 2008


What Happened to September...Wow it Went Fast This Year.
A total of 339 homes and other properties sold in September through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing
Service® (MLS®) compared to the 517 sales in August.

• In September 2008 Victoria Single Family Home Sales

• Lets look at the Real Estate Market in Each District of Victoria


• Oak Bay saw 17 home sales with an average selling price of $897,317
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 92


• Victoria saw 25 home sales with an average selling price of $544,328
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 152

• Saanich West saw 20 home sales with the average selling price of $471,265
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 130

• Esquimalt saw 3 home sales with the average selling price of $473,666
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 28

• Saanich East saw 39 home sales with the average selling price of $669,740
• Current active Listings of Single Family Homes 285
  

• Central Saanich saw 5 home sales with the average selling price of $712,380
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 98

• North Saanich saw 3 home sales with the average selling price of $594,166
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 124

• Sidney saw 9 home sales with the average selling price of $448,888
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 66

• Colwood saw 9 home sales with the average selling price of $451,722
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 92

• Langford saw 29 home sales with the average selling price of $476,134
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 201

• Highlands saw 0 home sales
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 16

• Sooke saw 16 home sales with a selling average price of $445,037
• Current Active Listings of Single Family Homes 194
  

• Waterfront(all districts) Home Sales throughout Greater Victoria totaled 5 home sales with the average selling price of $ 900,500
• Current Active Listing of Single Family Lake and Ocean Waterfront Homes 166

• • • Greater Victoria Single family home Sales for September showed an average selling price of $577,573, the medium selling price was at $520,000, The Median selling price is up from September 2007 with a median then of $473,000.
    • See July Market update
    • See August Market update
      

There were 71 Condominium's Sold in September throughout Victoria with an average selling price of $369,515

There were 36 Townhouses Sold in September throughout Victoria with an average selling price of $406,959


Stats Source: VREB

Copyright © 2008 By Fred Carver All Rights Reserved" Victoria real estate September Sales with Fall in the air"

I get asked many times what works to get Home Buyers and Sellers in Victoria BC. I can tell you I get a lot of attention from Both Victoria and out of town home Buyers and Sellers, nobody in my area is Blogging their Real Estate with the Success I'm getting by Blogging here in the Rain. It takes a while, people watch you and follow you, and soon see you are the area online expert to Sell and Buy Real Estate.

Also Do Niche Blogging for your Favorite Real Estate Market in your area, Like Luxury homes, Condos, waterfront properties, New Homes, etc

Here's a Great Example...Last Spring I received a Page from a Home Seller to come and list his home. They were unhappy with their Realtor, I thought oh boy, here's a Seller Blaming a Realtor for not selling his home. I quickly searched the home on the local MLS system to find it had only been on the market 14 days!!

I returned the call and arranged to meet with the Sellers and advise them I would be limited about we talked about until they were no long under Contract with another Real Estate Firm.

To Make a long story short...they had listed their home For Sale and their Realtor Left for Holidays the Next day...leaving it in the hands of other Realtors in his office. The Seller sensed something was wrong when their was limited Showings and his Realtor was not returning his calls...he never told them he was going on Holidays!

The Seller Wanted his home Sold, so they did a Google Search for a Realtor in their area of town and they quickly found me all over the page of Google, they then called me, Once they had canceled their listing and listed with me, I quickly Blogged a detailed post on Active Rain about this charming 1912 Heritage home and soon was positioned in Google.

I' m consistently get asked by fellow Realtors "how do I get such good position in the search engines and under so many Victoria real estate search terms"...I tell them about my Blogging and I soon get the deer in the headlight look and they say I do not have time for that....Well Gary Keller just wrote a book called Shift, his advise in his new book...dump what's not working, and cut back on expenses. AR costs me only my time and experience I put into my online marketing here.

Victoria home Sellers Call me because of my marketing presence online...and get realy excuited when I show them my Blogs on AR and my Blogs in Google, then hear about my successful results. Folks I Sell Real Estate ....Blogging.

Fellow Active Rain Members...Keep Posting your Blog Stories here in the Rain and include Blogging here with all your online marketing...and now add Twitter to your Posts and set up AR to Post on Twitter. Sound like fun!

PS: I'll follow up soon with my story about finding the offshore Buyer for the Heritage home I mentioned here...From my Acitive Rain Blogging!

SPECIAL THANKS to The AR Gods and my Coach Katerina Gasset

Copyright © 2008 By Fred Carver All Rights Reserved "trust Me..My Ar blogging and Internet Marketing Works to Sell Homes"

J. Mitchell Gallery, in Grace Point Square, is showcasing newly released estate oil paintings, by LeRoy Jensen, alongside new portrait paintings by his daughter, Gabrielle Jensen. The show runs through to October 8th. Check this out!

October 11, on the big screen at ArtSpring, enjoy Salome, live from the Metropolitan Opera. Starts at 10 a.m. Call ArtSpring Ticket Centre: 250-537-2102.

Catch Stephanie Denz' new art exhibit at Salt Spring Woodworks -- show can be viewed throughout October.

Live music, this weekend, at Treehouse Cafe (Man Cubs on the 26th and Donn Tarris & Tess Fama on the 27th. Enjoy!

Sept. 28th, the Salt Spring Chamber Players present Mozart, Poulenc, Rossini and Stravinsky to Salt Spring Islanders -- catch this at ArtSpring, at 2:30. $20 for advance tickets; $25 at the door. Don't miss this!

Community Education options await your pleasure -- how about "Make it and Take it Xmas Gifts"? Or, "Bridge Intermediate"? Or, "Art & Science of Photography"? Or, "Intro to Calligraphy"? Lots more choices! Get involved and get that intellect ticking over! More info? Check out the website at: www.ssicommunityed.com

October 3 is the opening of ArtSpring Gallery's presentation of Island artists, exploring "identity". Mark your calenders! The show runs through to the 12th, with an opening on the 3rd, from 6 to 8 p.m., at ArtSpring. See you there!

Sept. 27th is Jami Sieber's benefit concert for SOLID, with show starting at 8 p.m. (ArtSpring -- reserved seats only). Enjoy!

I used to be so envious of people who live in hot climates, but as I get older I realise how lucky I am to be living in Victoria, BC . . . our little piece of Paradise.

We may not have the hot sandy beaches that you find in all those other locations, but we have such great beauty here on the west coast of Canada. There are not too many cities where, on a beautiful sunny warm day you can also enjoy the snow-capped views of Mt. Baker and the Olympic Mountains. As Steven Nickens, of Maui says - our beauty is opposite to that of Hawaii's beauty.

Mind you, my wife and I are going to visit Hawaii one of these days, to enjoy the sand and surf and say "Aloha" to Steven.

A quiet walk along Cordova Bay Beach, Victoria, BC

Willows Beach, Oak Bay, Victoria, BC