Mortgage-rate rush helps push up Lower Mainland prices
Filed Under Main Content · Tagged: Fraser Valley Real Estate, Greater Vancouver, Low Mortgage, Lower Mainland, Mortgage Rate, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate Boards, Real Estate Prices, Rebound, Rose, Rush, Valley Real Estate, Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun- Real estate prices rose again in August and were approaching their levels of a year ago, numbers released Wednesday by the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley real estate boards showed.
Market watchers, surprised by the strength of the rebound, said it appeared buyers were cashing in on record-low mortgage rates while they last…
Mortgage-rate rush helps push up Lower Mainland prices
Central banks signal low rates here to stay
Filed Under Main Content · Tagged: Ben Bernanke, Central Banks, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Chairman, Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Wyo, Jean Claude Trichet, Measures, Rush, Stimulus, Times Colonist Victoria, Times Colonist Victoria Bc, Uncertainties
Times Colonist, Victoria, BC – That is the view emerging following the weekend gathering of the world’s leading central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., highlighted by remarks from Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, who warned of the uncertainties ahead, and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, who suggested he is in no rush to reverse emergency stimulus measures…
