Hyper Local Predator Ridge Update - Vernon BC

For more information about properties that are selling at Predator Ridge in Vernon BC Real Estate visit our Hyper Local Neighbourhood page

Or for read our blog on the active inventory

 

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Hyper Local Predator Ridge Update - Vernon BC

For more information about properties that are selling at Predator Ridge in Vernon BC Real Estate visit our Hyper Local Neighbourhood page

Or for read our blog on the active inventory

 

Last Week In Real Estate (Okanagan/Shuswap) Aug. 12

August 12, 2012

Here is a look at the overall residential MLS property market in the Okanagan Shuswap ( Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Region, with numbers from their database)

Okanagan Shuswap Residential MLS Sold (115)
		List Price	Sold Price	DOM	Beds	Total Baths	Finished Floor Area
	Min	$39,900	$35,000	1	2	1
	Max	$2,795,000	$2,650,000	539	6	6	5800
	Avg	$479,925	$456,091	117	3	3	2007
	Sum	$55,191,331	$52,450,488

Read our blog post for more details about individual zone performance statistics. The average sale price was up over $50,000 from last week!

Here is a look at ACTIVE Residential Inventory by Zone:

Central Okanagan Active Residential Listings (4779)
		List Price	Sold Price	DOM	Beds	Total Baths	Finished Floor Area
	Min	$1,000	-
	Max	$20,000,000	-	2187	10	11	13671
	Avg	$549,274	-	148	3	3	1754
	Sum	$2,624,979,694

See what has been selling in the Central Okanagan. (Kelowna BC and area real estate)

North Okanagan Active Residential Listings (2392)
		List Price	Sold Price	DOM	Beds	Total Baths	Finished Floor Area
	Min	$5,000	-	1
	Max	$9,995,000	-	1851	11	9	7830
	Avg	$435,777	-	193	3	2	1536
	Sum	$1,042,377,884

See what has been selling in the North Okanagan. (Vernon BC and area real estate)

Shuswap Residential Active Residential Listings (1767)
		List Price	Sold Price	DOM	Beds	Total Baths	Finished Floor Area
	Min	$13,800	-	1
	Max	$3,900,000	-	1865	9	11	8000
	Avg	$377,002	-	201	3	2	1270
	Sum	$666,161,674

See what's been selling in the Shuswap. (Salmon Arm, Sicamous, Mara etc real esate)

 

 

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

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Real Estate On The Rise in Vernon BC

The Rise is a resort style residential neighbourhood within Bella Vista in Vernon BC. It is a master-planned community featuring a Fred Couples Signature golf course, and is home to Stompin Grounds Vineyards.

So far 134 homesites have been offered for sale. Of the 134, 12 remain available from the developer and I have those listed for sale. 62 homes have been constructed to date at The Rise. 

There is no timeline on the purchase of lots at The RIse - so now is an excellent time to capitalize on the drop in market values with an eye to a future build.

Currently Trico Homes has new Villas available at Vista Lago - with more than half sold or spoken for.
In the past month, one of the Villa's has re-sold, another has an accepted offer, and I am in the process of preparing an offer on an existing home for potential buyers.

I am happy to provide you with additional information and photos upon your request. Please let me know if there is anything you need.

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR® 

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

 

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Real Estate On The Rise in Vernon BC

The Rise is a resort style residential neighbourhood within Bella Vista in Vernon BC. It is a master-planned community featuring a Fred Couples Signature golf course, and is home to Stompin Grounds Vineyards.

So far 134 homesites have been offered for sale. Of the 134, 12 remain available from the developer and I have those listed for sale. 62 homes have been constructed to date at The Rise. 

There is no timeline on the purchase of lots at The RIse - so now is an excellent time to capitalize on the drop in market values with an eye to a future build.

Currently Trico Homes has new Villas available at Vista Lago - with more than half sold or spoken for.
In the past month, one of the Villa's has re-sold, another has an accepted offer, and I am in the process of preparing an offer on an existing home for potential buyers.

I am happy to provide you with additional information and photos upon your request. Please let me know if there is anything you need.

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR® 

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

 

Vernon BC Neighbourhood Real Estate Ok North Aug. '12

Real estate varies greatly from one area to the next. Here is a look at the Okanagan North neighbourhood of Vernon BC.

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board defines Okanagan North as:

"The area north of the Fintry Delta on the west side of Okanagan Lake around the Head of the Lake including all of IR#1. (Native Reserve)"

More details are available on our page at http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/Okanagan_North_Real_Estate/page_219...

or on Our Blog

http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/blogs/brell__brenda_ellis/archive/2...

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

 

 

 

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Vernon BC Neighbourhood Real Estate Ok North Aug. '12

Real estate varies greatly from one area to the next. Here is a look at the Okanagan North neighbourhood of Vernon BC.

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board defines Okanagan North as:

"The area north of the Fintry Delta on the west side of Okanagan Lake around the Head of the Lake including all of IR#1. (Native Reserve)"

More details are available on our page at http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/Okanagan_North_Real_Estate/page_219...

or on Our Blog

http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/blogs/brell__brenda_ellis/archive/2...

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

 

 

 

Vernon BC Neighbourhood Real Estate Ok North Aug. '12

Real estate varies greatly from one area to the next. Here is a look at the Okanagan North neighbourhood of Vernon BC.

 

 

 

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board defines Okanagan North as:

"The area north of the Fintry Delta on the west side of Okanagan Lake around the Head of the Lake including all of IR#1. (Native Reserve)"

More details are available on our page at http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/Okanagan_North_Real_Estate/page_219...

or on Our Blog

http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/blogs/brell__brenda_ellis/archive/2...

 

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

 

Posted via email from brell's posterous

Vernon BC Neighbourhood Real Estate Ok North Aug. 12

Real estate varies greatly from one area to the next. Here is a look at the Okanagan North neighbourhood of Vernon BC.

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board defines Okanagan North as:

"The area north of the Fintry Delta on the west side of Okanagan Lake around the Head of the Lake including all of IR#1. (Native Reserve)"

More details are available on our page at http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/Okanagan_North_Real_Estate/page_219...

or on Our Blog

http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/blogs/brell__brenda_ellis/archive/2...

 

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

Vernon BC Neighbourhood Real Estate Ok North Aug. 12

Real estate varies greatly from one area to the next. Here is a look at the Okanagan North neighbourhood of Vernon BC.

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board defines Okanagan North as:

"The area north of the Fintry Delta on the west side of Okanagan Lake around the Head of the Lake including all of IR#1. (Native Reserve)"

More details are available on our page at http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/Okanagan_North_Real_Estate/page_219...

or on Our Blog

http://www.okanaganrealestateumbrella.com/blogs/brell__brenda_ellis/archive/2...

 

 

If you or anyone you know is looking for real estate services, I'd love to help.

Brell - Your Okanagan Real Estate Umbrella 250-308-4310
Brenda Ellis REALTOR®

Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty 
2749 30 Street, Vernon, BC, V1T 5C6

A growing team, a different approach...we are better together!

Visit my site Share with me on Facebook Share with me on Google+ Share with me on Twitter

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Rest In Peace - Joan E. Heriot

I awoke yesterday morning to the news that a local legend had passed away. Joan Heriot was born here 101.5 years ago. I met her when she would substitute teach for her friend, Sveva Caetani who taught at Charles Bloom. I recall the first time I met Ms. Heriot.... who was such an impish contrast to the towering Caetani. I remember thinking - well this one is not so imposing..." Boy was I wrong!

Joan was Fiesty. I think had she been born 75 years later - she would be an uber geek. She was a very technical thinker. Savvy. Fun. I got to know her more after graduation, when she moved into The Caetani House. Her artistic legacy was alive and well in the 70's.... and everyone in the know knew that in order to own a Heriot Original "you had to be on the list." The list was years long.  I got my name on the list, and in about 1990 - took possession of my original Heriot piece. (Which I lost in my divorce.)  When Joan learned that years later... she slipped me back into the list!  

Joan worked from original slides, using a little tiny viewer. She and Sveva would pour over the slides and she would note Sveva's comments pro and con - and thus images were sorted. It was a great honour to sit with her after Sveva passed, and take up the task of examining the slides and have my comments noted. I know that somewhere out there, there are boxes of slides that say Ok'd by Brell - or Brellis - as Joan was always formal with the nickname - and sometimes the ever popular "less foreground - more sky!"  During one of these times I saw a most extraordinary image - which quite excited me... This one HAD to be done. There was something about it. I had not seen anything like it in all the other slides we had looked at over the years. 

Later, Joan presented me with that painting - which I learned was a scene from Scotland! I was honoured, touched and very grateful. 

My favourite Joan story was the one where Joan was a bright, enquiring, and rather  impossible four year old. She had given her Mum a run for the entire day. At the end of the day, as her Mum tucked her into bed, as the story goes, her Mum said 

"There. Now you can't cause any more trouble today." to which Joan replied

"OH yes I can! ..... I can bite a hole in my nightie fr'instance!"

It was the Fr'Instance that Joan loved... eluding to the fact that there were sooooo many ways she could still be an imp - biting a hole in the nightie merely being on.

It should be noted, that Joan did bite a hole in a hot water bottle once. But that was a scientific experiment she said. That was her story, and she stuck to it.

My daughter will think of Joan based on her interactions with her when she was the Courtesy Driver for Vernon Dodge - where Joan, with 2 canes took her Subaru Justy (4wd of course!) for servicing - as one who was fiercely independent - refusing to be "coddled to" whilst proclaiming "I don't really know WHY they call them the golden years.... there really is nothing golden about them!... Off we go!" Joan drove for a long time.  I offered to buy her little car "for my son" - when she was ready of course, ( but mainly I was thinking she ought not to be driving.)  Eventually the call came.. "Brellis - I am ready to sell you the car. Come round and we'll take it for a spin. She insisted on driving the first leg of the test - which took us out of her underground parking and out Okanagan Landing Rd. She was perhaps 90 at this stage. The car was a standard, with armstrong steering... how she drove that car I will never really know! She was happy, having made her farewell drive, we were all alive, and the purchase was made. The car still runs, and was indeed gifted to our son.

I can't help but think that there is one heck of a reunion going on between the old pals of Sveva, Joan, Paddy Mackie and Grace Funk. I know there were more in that crew - who camped and cajoled. How wonderful it would be if we could wind back time to the early 70s and witness that crew in action. I wish them all well. They took care of one another in this life - and I am sure the next adventures will be a wonderful ones.

Rest in Peace Joan.

Love,

Brellis.

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