Langley Detached hasn't had higher inventory since ...2012 😬😬. Great video btw !!!

Agreed. Please stop coming to Grandview. Need less neighbors. Too many renters here already. Less and less safe with transient renters

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They could’ve put a window facing the kitchen and have a shades for privacy when needed. You could actually still get some natural light coming from the living room. This seems like an odd solution, but not as odd, as having a bedroom with zero windows.

i noticed more and more properties are getting on big cities housing market list. it directly shows current Canada's economy situation. considering long term trending down of Canada's economy, house market will go back to normal and real value eventually. Are there endless rich people keeping taking over sky high house price in Vancouver? NO any way. Canada is in deep trouble now. Too much investment is in real estate, it leads much less money to invest businesses to boom economy. it is time to slow down and end carnival.

Very good and meaningful analysis of the current market. Totaly agree with. Makes a lot of sense for Canada as a whole. Good job.

Surrey is overrated period. One of the worst places to live in the lowermainland

Ditto for the market in the North Okanagan ! Thank you for a very good synopsis of what is really going on!

hello sir

Such an informative video. My fave from your channel so far - perhaps because you didn’t say Clayton Heights is overrated, ha ha.

Long time BC resident here ( east of Langley) ... wow as a kid I remember driving through Walley in the 1970s with my parents … 🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️ A frightening place for sure! Folks check out the old downtown core of Chilliwack! It's amazingly beautiful what they have accomplished there !!!! Great Chanel ! I enjoy the comments 😊

Respect given for your honesty about whalley. Showing the tent dweller and all. Should also tell your clients that the girl who looks like she's hitchhiking Isnt hitchhiking.

At the end of the day if your a seller and your property is sitting on the market for over a month and your not getting any action expect low ball offers period.

BOC rate decrease next week! Where's all my bears that said it wouldn't happen?

What do you think about clayton heights?

Surrey is no place to live or any other overrated place in GVRD including skid row like Vancouver. Shit holes?

How dare you daddy im selling in one of those areas 😢

More access to transit equals more crime. That's how it has always been in the lower Mainland

What do you think about Guildford?

Underrated neighborhood?

The best place is not technically in Surrey but it's very close; it's White Rock. Love what they're doing with the downtown core and it's such a great city with loads of good schools, parks, beaches (even a nude beach), restaurants, micro-breweries, karaoke, Cannabis stores and close to the border for cheap gas. Easy to jump onto the highway too and with the Massey Tunnel expansion, will be much quicker to downtown eventually. Whalley will be the best place in Surrey for investment though. Then anything on the Skytrain line, near stops, down through to Langley.

What about Fraser heights?

Lived in Whalley from 1997 to 2020 saw the growth but sold and getting out of it forever. Life is too short to live in Whalley lol

Thank you for great video!We are movie to Ridgewood (64Ave) in next month)))

I understand what you are saying about escape from windowless “bedroom” in case of fire. On the other hand, if this above the third floor, escape through a window would be dangerous or deadly anyway, right?

people need to understand, developers are only looking for efficiency to make as much profit as possible, thus what you see everywhere

do you people ever stop talking ? you all say the same thing over and over and over again

Back in the 1970s, the rental apartment complex where I lived in Maryland, U.S., had mainly three-level garden buildings (Terrace, 1st floor, and 2nd floor). The buildings were entered on the 1st floor. There were four apartments each on the 1st and 2nd floors. The lowest level had two Terrace apartments in the back plus laundry, storage, and trash rooms in the front, where apartments couldn't go because there would be no windows. But some buildings on a hill had 4 or 5 levels, with the extra levels facing the back below the Terrace level ones (which had balconies instead of terraces). There were two apartments on each extra levels. I was told that they had interior rooms with no windows, and either a state or county law prohibited apartment management from calling them bedrooms because of this. I wouldn't be surprised if these extra rooms were used for sleeping, even if it was just for occasional guests. Thanks for your description of interior corners. My condo building is a straight line and doesn't have them. However, the two other buildings in our complex are larger and do have them. In my type of two-bedroom, the living room has a sliding glass door to the terrace or balcony. Sometimes, I wish I had a window to open, not a full door. But a different style of two-bedroom here has that sliding glass door in the second bedroom. This is a situation in which a real window would be even more appreciated. Both of these styles also have the sliding glass door instead of a window in the dining room.

are the side by side sink poular when space is at a premium?

8 x 8 room is a closet, not a den.

Cutting rates would be irresponsible. We need a good period of pain in the economy and unemployment to rise. It would be healthy and necessary. I hope the BOC won't catter to the irresponsible people and sharkish financial institution advocating for cuts.

Why do the contractors do floor plans where you have to go through a public area to get from the bedroom to a bathroom?? If I have company, I really don't want to have to dodge guests while running half naked from bathroom to bedroom!

That would never appraise as a two bedroom since a bedroom must have a closet and an escapable window. A sealed room opposite a kitchen is not a place to sleep. I don't know the laws in DC, but this really sounds like fraudulent way to present this condo to my, admittedly non-attorney ears

You are right. This is a very dumb undesirable plan.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

this is good news, let the numbers grow and prices will come down sooner or later

The modern condo is nothing more but a overpriced shoe box. You have no idea how many times I've been in a real expensive buildings where most of their units are average at best. From materials used to the layout and of course the pricing its just madness.

As an Architect, how did bedroom 2 get approved thru the building department? Every bedroom must have a window with 5 sq. feet of opening in case of a fire. No window is a life safety issue.

Its all the RCMP listing their houses now that they have been given the boot haha

It would be sheer hell for medics to take you out on a stretcher. I've become more aware of the possibility of such happening as I get older.

i'm just wondering if the den and the windowless bedroom could be made into a living room / dining are and the living room closed off and converted into a bedroom? hmm that would be um eu... i dunno...

I've seen far too many "reasonably priced" two-bedrooms, but it's NOT a second bedroom! It's a windowless alcove with a sliding door across the opening. The Real Estate Board should sanction agents who use such marketing, which is just DISHONEST.

When purchasing an apartment, you should really also know what rooms are abutting the neighbors. Is your primary bedroom abutting somebody’s living room? It is definitely advantageous to have bedrooms that do NOT abut other peoples apartments. How soundproof are the walls between apartments as well as above and below? As a New Yorker, these are some of the most important aspects of an apartment layout. Not just the apartment itself, but where it is in the building and who is next to you and how. And having a lovely hallway separating the entrance from the common hallway is fantastic. They cut down on noise and just separate your apartment from others.

Should have just rented and bought U.S. stocks. Sorry you got rekt 😂

You could set the living room up as a dining room and use the den as a living room (TV room). That's how I have my place set up. Second bedroom is the TV room. It works great for me. I get what you're saying about needing safe egress from a bedroom, but in reality is egress onto a high rise balcony really going to save your life? If there's a fire escape stair, sure. But i don't remember there being one in any high rise condo I have stayed in.

Get ready for a second wave of rate hikes.

I am quite appreciative for devoting your time to providing numerous real estate industry insights and training. Every video I watch makes it evident that I need to put my money in the US real estate market.

Lol i love all the sassy replies. I actually live in Ontario and have no stakes in BC and their real estate lol. But I really like your floor plan reviews, and this is an interesting peek of what's happening in BC. Pretty cool. We probably have the same here in ON