British Columbia Real Estate

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British Columbia is Canada's westernmost province and is one of North America's most mountainous regions. The crest of the Rocky Mountains forms the southeastern boundary. The province is the only part of Canada on the Pacific Ocean, and it includes Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands off the western coast. British Columbia is Canada’s third largest province in area and population, behind Québec and Ontario. Much of it is rugged and mountainous. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of BC at 4,113,487.

Burnaby click here

Burnaby is located immediately east of Vancouver, between the Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south. It is a residential suburb of the cities of Vancouver and New Westminster. Originally an agricultural and logging community, Burnaby has become an urban center with service, commercial, and industrial sectors. Manufactures include steel, trucks, telecommunications equipment, and processed fish.

Coal Harbour

Christine Louw B.A., LL.B.
RE/MAX Select Properties
Phone: 604-926-3936

Coal Harbour Real Estate
Leading Realtor and Coal Harbour area specialist. Website has MLS and Google map search, street/building map, area market update and non-resident information.

Colwood

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

Cranbrook click here

Cranbrook is located between the Purcell Mountains and the Rocky Mountains. It is surrounded by miles of lush forestry and over 100 crystal clear lakes. Cranbrook is the commercial centre of BC Rockies. A 2001 real estate survey has estimated the population of Cranbrook, British Columbia at 18,500.

Elkford

    Paula Smith
    Royal LePage 4 Seasons Realty
    Toll Free 866-425-3690
    E-mail: paula@elkfordrealestate.net
    Web Site
    Nestled in the majestic Rocky Mountains, we have great prices on real estate and rentals. Come check us out!

False Creek North

Christine Louw B.A., LL.B.
RE/MAX Select Properties
Phone: 604-926-3936

False Creek North Real Estate
Leading Realtor and False Creek North area specialist. Website has MLS and Google map search, street/building map, area market update and area information.

Fernie

    Terry Blackburn
    Royal LePage 4 Seasons Realty
    Toll Free: 888-870-9064 Cell: 250-423-1161

    Web Site
    Serving the Elk Valley areas of Fernie and Sparwood in the East Kootenay Region of southeastern BC.

Fort St. John click here

Fort St. John is the Oil & Gas Capital of B.C., and the primary service center in Northeastern B.C.. The economy is further diversified with the largest agriculture area in the province and forestry with a pulp mill and major softwood forest industry. A 2001 real estate survey has estimated the population of Fort St. John, British Columbia at 16,000.

Gabriola Island

    Steve Orsatti
    Coast Realty Group
    Phone: 250-716-7001

    Gabriola Island real estate
    Steve Orsatti is happy to assist you with your Nanaimo and Gabriola Island information, links, and real estate needs.

Gibsons

Russ Qureshi
Re/Max Top 20 Realty
Phone: 800-986-2670

Web Site
Representing buyers and sellers on the Sunshine Coast. For a clear, professional approach call me today.

Grand Forks

    Kurt Day
    Sunshine Valley Real Estate
    Phone: 250-442-2711
    E-mail: Kurt_Day@telus.net
    Serving Grand Forks, Christina Lake, Greenwood, Midway, and Rock Creek.

Gulf Islands

Kelowna click here

Kelowna is located in south central British Columbia, on Okanagan Lake. Kelowna is a commercial, manufacturing, and tourist center situated in a major fruit-growing and lumbering region. Principal manufactures include wood products, processed food, transportation equipment, communication equipment, and wine. Located in the central Okanagan Valley, the city boasts many orchards and vineyards, as well as one of BC's largest wineries.

Kimberley

    James Swansburg
    Specialist Real Estate Ltd.
    Phone: 250-427-7755

    Web Site
    Specialize in Recreational, Rural & Small Business Real Estate. Offering Enhanced Multiple Listing Service (MLS), Premium Internet and Digital Video Marketing of Properties, Specialist Real Estate Services for the entire Kootenays.

Langford

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

Langley

Shane & Sheleana Harder
Prudential Realty
Phone: 604-897-5578

BC Housing Network
Shane and Sheleana will provide British Columbian buyers and sellers a place where they can come to educate themselves and transition comfortably while in the hands of the top professionals in BC.

Mackenzie

    Crystal Okeson
    Realty World Mackenzie
    Phone: 250-997-6519
    E-mail: okeson@perf.bc.ca
    Mackenzie and McLeod Lake north of Prince George. Can do referrals to anywhere in BC or rest of Canada

Nanaimo

    Steve Orsatti
    Coast Realty Group
    Phone: 250-716-7001

    Nanaimo real estate
    Steve Orsatti is happy to assist you with your Nanaimo and Gabriola Island information, links, and real estate needs.

Natasha Koch
Coast Realty
Phone: 250-716-7001

Nanaimo Real Estate
Ranked within Top 10%. Serving Buyers and Sellers from Nanaimo-Ladysmith for more than 7 years.

New Westminster

Tim Zimich
Re/Max Central
Phone: 604-433-2411
E-mail: tim@timzimich.com
Web Site
Serving Vancouver, Burnaby & New Westminster since 1985.

North Vancouver

Christine Louw B.A., LL.B.
RE/MAX Select Properties
Phone: 604-926-3936

North Vancouver Real Estate
Top Realtor for superior results! Specializing in luxury homes and investment properties in Vancouver (Coal Harbour, False Creek North, Downtown, Yaletown, West End, etc), West Vancouver and North Vancouver. Transnational relocation certified Realtor.

Maggie Chandler
Chandler Realty Ltd.
Phone: 604-328-0077

Coal Harbour Condos
Maggie Chandler has a special interest in selling condos in Vancouver's scenic Coal Harbour neighbourhood. She wishes her clients real estate transaction to be as smooth as possible and dedicates much time to educating them about the process.

Ken Wyder
Re/Max Select Properties
Phone: 604-889-9394

Vancouver Real Estate
Realtor Ken Wyder has a lengthy list of satisfied clients whose real estate needs range from small apartments to large estates.

Ruth Hanson
Prudential Sussex Realty
Phone: 604-880-5936

North Vancouver Real Estate
I have over ten years experience in real estate in Greater Vancouver, with a special interest in West Vancouver, North Vancouver, North Burnaby and Port Moody.

Pender Islands

Emil Chervatin
PembertonHolmes
Phone: 250-629-0021

Emil Chervatin is a realtor helping people to buy and sell houses, lots and commercial properties on Pender Island, BC. He is available to help buyers, and sellers, with any property on Pender Island, contact him with questions about Pender properties, or about the Island itself.

Howard Sanders
Dockside Realty
Phone: 250-222-HOME

Pender Island Real Estate
Properties for sale on Pender Island, BC. Listings include Pender Island real estate, Gulf Island waterfront properties and Vancouver Island homes.

Pitt Meadows

    Brent Richards
    Re/Max Sabre Realty Group
    Phone: 604-942-0606
    E-mail: richards@lynx.bc.ca
    Long time resident of the Tri-City Area. Hard working for my clients and active in Dog Rescue & Cancer Charities.

Prince George click here

Prince George is located at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers. Wood drives the local economy, with forestry, plywood manufacture, 12 sawmills and three pulp mills as major employers and customers. Other industry includes two chemical plants, an oil refinery, brewery, dairy, machine shops, aluminum boat building, log home construction, value added forestry product and specialty equipment manufacturing. Prince George is also a staging centre for mining and prospecting, and a major regional transportation, trade and government hub.

Richmond

Tony Toyer
MacDonald Realty Westmar
Phone: 778-866-5410

Richmond Real Estate
Professional Real Estate help, specializing with first time home buyers within the greater Vancouver area. Feel free to contact me at your convenience.

Saanich

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

Salt Spring Island

    Li Read
    Sea to Sky Premier Properties (Salt Spring)
    Phone: 250-537-7647

    Salt Spring Island Real Estate
    Canadian Southern Gulf Islands: Salt Spring, Pender, Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, & smaller Islands. Site includes market analysis, slide shows.

Sidney

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

Sooke

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

Vancouver click here

Vancouver is situated on a peninsula opposite Vancouver Island, Vancouver is bordered by Burrard Inlet on the north, the Strait of Georgia on the west, and the Fraser River on the south. The city is located about 42 km northwest of the United States border. Vancouver is Canada’s third largest metropolitan region (after Toronto and Montréal) and is a leading Pacific Coast seaport and the main commercial, manufacturing, financial, tourist, and cultural center of British Columbia.

Vernon

    Dawn Taylor
    Re/Max Vernon
    Phone: 250-309-4092
    E-mail: dawn@dawntaylor.ca
    Web Site
    Serving the central and north Okanagan. I promise to make your real estate experience as pleasant and easy as possible.

Victoria click here

Victoria is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, next to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Once an important trading and manufacturing center, it now functions as a government, educational, military, and tourist center. A 2001 real estate survey has estimated the population of Victoria, British Columbia at 74,100.

View Royal

Peter Lindsay
RE/MAX Camosun
Toll Free: 800-663-2121
E-mail: peterb@vreb.bc.ca
Web Site
Residential Sales, Corporate, and Military Relocation Specialist, RE/MAX HALL OF FAME, serving Greater Victoria since 1987. Please bear me in mind for all your real estate needs, FREE RELOCATION KIT UPON REQUEST.

West Vancouver

Christine Louw B.A., LL.B.
RE/MAX Select Properties
Phone: 604-926-3936

West Vancouver Real Estate
Top Realtor for superior results! Specializing in luxury homes and investment properties in Vancouver (Coal Harbour, False Creek North, Downtown, Yaletown, West End, etc), West Vancouver and North Vancouver. Transnational relocation certified Realtor.

White Rock click here

White Rock is located in the southwest corner of the Lower Mainland, forty-five kilometres from Vancouver. It is a seaside community clustered around an eight kilometre sandy beach and the warm shallow waters of Semiahmoo Bay. Because of its moderate climate, White Rock is a popular retirement spot.

Williams Lake

Freddy Marks
LandQuest Realty
Phone: 250-398-6319

Williams Lake Real Estate
Lodges, Ranches, Acreages, Waterfront properties and Motels. I have been doing Real Estate business in Europe and British Columbia for more than 25 years.
More about British Columbia

While forestry, mining, fishing and agriculture remain important to B.C.'s economy, there is strong growth in new industries such as eco-tourism, agri-tourism, film and high tech. British Columbia is Canada's gateway to the Asia-Pacific and is economically and geographically part of the northwest region of North America. More than half the population lives in the southwestern corner of the province, which includes the largest city, Vancouver, and the provincial capital, Victoria.

Only about 3 percent of the province’s total area is agricultural land, but the land that is farmed is extremely productive. The Peace River area produces most of the grain harvested in British Columbia. Cattle and dairy farms account for one-third of the annual farm income. Ranching is concentrated on the grassland plateau of the south central interior. Dairy farming is especially important in the Lower Fraser Valley. Important crop-raising areas are the Lower Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island, where truck farming (farming for nearby urban markets) predominates, and the Okanagan Valley, where fruits and vegetables are raised on irrigated land. Fruit is also grown commercially in the Creston area of southeastern British Columbia. The province is a leading Canadian producer of apples, cherries, and plums (mainly from the Okanagan Valley), and raspberries and cranberries (from the Lower Fraser Valley). Flowers and bulbs are a specialty crop of the southwest.

While the commercial fishing industry accounts for only a small share of the annual gross domestic product in British Columbia, it remains important to many coastal communities with fishing fleets. Five species of Pacific salmon—pink, coho, chinook, chum, and sockeye—are caught. These fish are anadromous, that is, they are hatched in fresh water, then spend their adult lives in the sea before returning, three to five years later, to their native stream to spawn. Although heavily managed, salmon stocks have fluctuated widely. Competition between U.S. and Canadian fishing fleets is regulated by the Pacific Salmon Commission, but as resources decline, tensions rise. The issues have been further complicated by the expansion of fishing by indigenous peoples in recent years.

Among British Columbia’s natural resources, forestry has been the leading sector of the economy throughout the 20th century; the province has one-fifth of the commercial forest land in Canada. Forestry supplies raw materials for the province’s most important manufacturing industries. About 40 percent of the lumber cut in British Columbia comes from the coastal regions, which is where logging began in the province in the 1840s. Nearly all of the output is Douglas fir, hemlock, and western red cedar. Most of Canada’s plywood, well over half its lumber, and between one-fifth and one-quarter of its pulp and paper come from British Columbia. In recent years, the timber industry has come under heavy criticism for the extent of its logging, its insistence on the need to cut remaining old-growth forest, and the ecological impacts of its logging practices. The proportion of the labor force employed in logging and forestry is falling, and the industry is no longer as important in the British Columbian economy as it once was.

The principal metals produced by the British Columbia mining industry are gold, copper, zinc, and all of Canada’s molybdenum. Silver, lead, and sulfur are also mined. Natural gas and coal are the most important products in terms of value. The major copper mines have been concentrated in the intermontane plateau (Ashcroft, near Kamloops; Merritt; Princeton; Summerland; Williams Lake). Coal has long been mined in southeastern British Columbia, near Fernie. Large amounts of capital were invested in the North East Coal project to open mines at Tumbler Ridge, between Prince George and Dawson Creek. These mines were intended to supply Japanese markets, but their costs have been prohibitively high. The major markets for British Columbia’s mining industry are outside of Canada, making the industry subject to changes in the international economy. Petroleum and natural gas are extracted in the northeast, and new large natural gas reserves have been located in the sedimentary rocks of this area, which already supplies markets in southern Canada and the northwestern United States by pipeline.

Wood processing is the province’s most important manufacturing industry. It provides jobs for a significant proportion of the manufacturing labor force, and accounts for one-quarter or more of the value added by manufacturing in the province. Much of the production is dimension lumber (lumber cut to specific sizes), large quantities of which are sold to the United States for building construction. Some new mills (such as that at Chemainus on Vancouver Island) produce lumber for the Japanese market. Pulp and paper production is also of great significance to the provincial economy and serves a range of markets, including the U.S. market. Food and beverage production (including fish canning, wine making, brewing, and freezing fruit and vegetables) is the third-ranked manufacturing activity and is mainly for local markets. Other significant manufacturing output comes from petroleum and coal products, fabricated metals and ore, printed materials, and chemical products. The Vancouver metropolitan area is by far the province’s most important manufacturing region. Victoria and Prince George are much smaller manufacturing centers. Other manufacturing, mainly wood and mineral processing, is distributed in small towns across the province.

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