Vancouver Real Estate Anecdote Archive

Immigration Lawyer Says ‘Bubble’ – “There is this psychological fear that ‘Ok, if I don’t get into the market, I might not be able to get in later on.”

Opinion extracted from ‘Chinese Spreading Wealth Make Vancouver Homes Pricier Than NYC’, by Hui-yong Yu and Christopher Donville, 17 May 2011, at bloomberg.com :“Low interest rates inflated home prices and created a bubble, said Lawrence Wong, an immigration lawyer with many Chinese clients. Unlike the U.S., Canada has no tax deduction for mortgage interest. “There is this psychological fear that ‘Ok, if I don’t get into the market, I might not be able to get in later on,” said Wong.”