I am no art expert. In fact, I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I have only been inside the Vancouver Art Gallery once in 12 years. I have however, always admired it’s architectural significance in the city. Recently the VAG announced that they will be moving perhaps in 2013.

Purchasing a presale home has many benefits including selecting a colour scheme, customizations, spreading out deposits and much more.

The City of Vancouver is collaborating with the Vancouver Art Gallery and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad on spectacular public art project throughout the winter games.  What is public art? And, more importantly, why is it important?

Cameron McNeill (CM): Good morning I’m Cameron McNeill. I’m here with Kari Henshaw from Insight Design. Kari welcome.

Kari Henshaw (KH): Good morning, thank you for having me.

A great deal of ink has hit newsprint of late regarding South East False Creek and Olympic Village. Some of it very positive, some of it very negative.

The nice things about being in the business of marketing and selling real estate is the reality that our expanding population will continue to need homes in which to live.

Much has been said about the strong summer real estate market in Vancouver. This past July we saw record numbers of real estate sales, primarily in the re-sale area of the market. August numbers are also expected to be strong.

In general, I think everyone in the real estate industry has turned to a more optimistic outlook on the market.

In Marketing 101 you learn about the most basic yet most important factor when selling any product in any industry - target market. Knowing who will buy your product and catering to their needs and desires should direct every decision you make.

Well it already has! On March 17th, MAC sold pre-sold all remaining condos in the Beasley project in Downtown Vancouver (over 100 sales in just a couple of weeks). And the market will see more (albeit only a few) successful pre-sale efforts in 2009.