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Overpopulated we are not on the beautiful BC Sunshine Coast. However, many more people live here now than 20 or 30 years ago. Our growth trend is expected to continue.

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast. Our growth rates have been healthy for the past few decades; however there's still lots of expansion room available here.

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast, where many people are finding a home near ...

Changing demographics are noticeable everywhere – although on the Sunshine Coast we see a somewhat extremer example of representation of baby boomers approaching their retirement ages. How is that going to affect us?

We're getting older, folks. In fact, many of us will be approaching retirement age fairly soon - this is going to change the make-up of society as we know it.

Some say that the ...

How would you like to get rid of your mortgage? If you’re looking at another 25 or 30 years of projected happy mortgage payments, this blog article will show you how to get rid of your mortgage burden much faster.

Is there a magic trick that'll make your mortgage disappear faster? Well, it's really more like persistent common sense - but it works so well.

Most people will agree that it’s a ...

Quite a few people believe that there is a link between lower mortgage rates and ever increasing real estate prices? This precise link may be hard to measure precisely but what does simple logic have to say about this?

There's something to it: when interest rates are low, more people can afford a certain home at a certain price; this would logically prescribe that there could be upward press ...

A buyer will always choose the house that looks best (everything else being the same: price, size, quality, features, location). Safe to say that a house that’s well cared for will sell first.

It makes a lot of sense that buyers will choose the nicest home out of two, when the prices of them are the same and they are otherwise comparable too.

When something looks really good, you just have ...

Thirty years is the maximum amortization period currently permitted for federally insured mortgages. Some lenders still offer 35-year product on non-insured mortgage loans.

How long do you want your mortgage loan to run? 20, 25, 30 or 35 years? Various mortgage scenarios are possible, although the government might try to curtail the longer-running mortgage loans.

What would happen if we cut ...

When you apply to get pre-approved for your mortgage, you’ll be offered a rate hold. If the rates go up, you are protected against that for a certain period. If they go down, you reapply to get the newer (lower) rate.

A mortgage rate hold is a magnificent tool to provide you with the security that you'll get a certain rate, even months prior to your mortgage date.

A mortgage pre-approval is ...

When you’re looking for the BC Sunshine Coast, your search engine might come up with results in Australia. Obviously, there are other Sunshine Coast locations in other countries. To narrow down your search, here are some suggestions.

It's never been easier to look around the Sunshine Coast. No matter where you are, almost the entire Sunshine Coast can be viewed on the Internet.

HOW TO FIND ...

What was cheap once, possibly isn’t so cheap any more today. Then again, this is relative because virtually all prices (and income) have gone up quite a bit over time. It’s no different on the Sunshine Coast.

Those forty Thousand Dollar homes on the Sunshine Coast are not around any longer - but those with good memory might remember them from say 25 or 30 years ago?

An increase in the gener ...