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Shall we only cover 'actual' Vancouver, or should we expand to places like Richmond?
I think we should stick to only vancouver to keep it focused, since housing prices and the reasons behind this are way differen tin richmond than they are in van-also taxes etc. too. (abigail)
I wonder if keeping it only in Vancouver would be a representative sample of BC. Maybe if we expand it we can get better representative sample.
How about we do the greater Vancouver area. That would include all the cities as far east as Langley. It would give us a bigger sample and allow us the have relatively similar prices.
Yeah Brian greater Vancouver would be good.
If we agree to conduct the survey for all of GVRD than here are some necessary stats that we should consider:
1) Population Growth Trends
http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/publications/Publications/Census2011PopulationGrowthTrends.pdf
Notice: Abbotsford is excluded.
2) Household Trends by Municipality
http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/publications/Publications/HouseholdTrendsbyMunicipality.pdf
3) Housing Price Index Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board
http://www.realtylink.org/statistics/buyers_market_HPI_main.cfm
4) Average and Median Household Income by Municipality
5) Apartment Average Rents Bachelor http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/publications/Publications/ApartmentAverageRentsBachelor.pdf
Here is a website that might be helpful.
Iunno. It says Vancouver real estate. It doesn't really talk about applicability to the rest of BC. And I think that would be the point, to find out how ridiculous the pricing is in Van, as opposed to the rest of bc.
Yeah the thing is, the Greater Vancouver area would be different from the rest of BC. It's not like Vancouver prices went up while prices in Surrey or Langley went down. My parent's house in Surrey more than doubled in the last 10 years, so I don't think Surrey is exempt from these trends in Vancouver
That's a good point, but the rest of BC, or even greater van isnt getting flooded with news about how egregiously high housing prices are in langley etc. Hmm. There's pro's and con's to both approaches...
That's true. I think for a survey this size we should limit it to Vancouver real estate. What does everyone else think?
That's true, I think for a survey this size we should limit it to the vancouver area. What does everyone else think?
Thats true. I think for a survey this size we should limit it to the Vancouver area. What does everyone else think?
I agree that we should focus simply on the Vancouver. In terms of real estate, the outlying areas have differing trends and demographics, by isolating Vancouver I feel that our survey would be more focused.