Derrick Penner, The Vancouver Sun, April 18, 2010
Developers are doing what they can to beat the harmonized sales tax July 1 deadline, building units ahead of schedule and hoping to make sales earlier rather than having to charge the unpopular tax later.
Opportunities are limited, the time fleeting, but with the tax adding a cost in the tens of thousands of dollars to homes, builders who have serviced lots figure they’re better off taking the risk of having to hold onto excess inventory.
Kerry Gold, The Globe & Mail, April 9, 2010
The Vancouver-based Gaglardi family is known for owning Sandman Inn hotels and Denny’s restaurants, where you can work your way through something called a Grand Slam at 2 o’clock in the morning.
There is also “Flying Phil Gaglardi,” now deceased. He was the eccentric, 1960s era Highways Minister who had a penchant for driving fast and grabbing headlines. Today,
Carla Wilson, Victoria Times Colonist, March 27, 2010
Creditors of major projects like Bear Mountain Resort should stick with developers while waiting for a stronger economy and a revitalized market, says Rudy Nielsen, president of NIHO, a company that develops residential property throughout B.C.
Langford’s Bear Mountain Resort is one of several large B.C. projects to face financial woes in the recession, said Nielsen, also president of Landcor Data Corp.
Ron LaForce, Salmon Trout Steelhead Magazine, March 2010
For the past seven years, West Coast Resorts has hosted the Salmon Masters Tournament. Salmon Masters is North America’s largest cash jackpot salmon tournament with a total guaranteed payout of $360,000.00. The Grand Prize is $115,000.00. The proceeds from the tournament support the Make a Wish Foundation and The Pacific Salmon Foundation. The entry fee of $6,995 includes a spectacular trip to one of West Coast’s three participating salmon lodges.
Vancouver Sun, July 13, 2009
More than $178,000 was raised at Coast Capital Savings’ 8th Annual Charity Golf Tournament benefiting depression research and treatment at VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation for Depression Research. Since 2002, the annual event has raised over $980,000, with the majority of funds going toward research, treatment and awareness of mental illness.
The Westminster Savings Foundation provided $20,000 to Servants Anonymous Surrey, a society dedicated to preventing child and youth exploitation,
Sally Howard and Emma Wells, The Sunday Times (London), November 1, 2009
Rudy Nielsen looks unprepossessing enough in his blue jeans and lumberjack shirt, but he has been known to buy up an entire town before breakfast. Nielsen is an agent and property developer with a difference: his speciality is buying, renovating and selling the once thriving mining communities that litter the vast expanses of Canada.
“Many of these abandoned places are extremely picturesque,
Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, September 2009
From somewhere in the world – but most likely Western Canada, the USA, or Europe- 16 well-heeled buyers are expected to ante more than $1 million each to share in Canada’s first gated community, now being developed between the East Kootenay communities of Invermere and Radium Hot Springs.
“I know more about recreational real estate in BC than probably anyone else, and this is the best property I have ever seen,” said Rudy Nielsen,
Carla Wilson, The Victoria Times-Colonist, April 16, 2004
Despite careful tracking of residential house sales and values in B.C., it’s too early to know where the market is heading, says a real estate analyst.
It will take another three to four months to predict where the bottom of the market is, Rudy Nielsen, president of Vancouver-based Landcor Data Corporation, said yesterday. He added from there, any recovery will be slow.
Carla Wilson, The Victoria Times- Colonist, May 2, 2009
Greater Victoria’s real estate market continued to rack up hefty month-over-month increases in sales while prices in April continued to decline from record highs of the past two years.
“There is definitely a spurt in the marketplace right now … has been for the last three to four weeks,” said Rudy Nielsen, president of Landcor Data Corp., which tracks British Columbia’s real estate market.
Derrick Penner, The Vancouver Sun, May 20, 2009
British Columbia’s real estate markets have reached a point where it is difficult to predict if they’ll go down any further or begin a recovery — or even when either might occur.
In its latest forecast released Tuesday, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reduced its expectations for new-home construction, sales and prices for this year and next.
Province-wide,