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Be high-tech at home
October 21, 2010
Andrew McCormick and Aris Catevatis of Ace Integrated Systems, outside a show suite they worked on at Millennium Water in Vancouver, say home automation can help make any homeowner’s life easier and more efficient. Martin Knowles photo
Homes: get automated High-tech advances can help enhance the home experience MAGGIE CALLOWAY Thinking new home? Perhaps it’s time to think technology. Homeowners who are considering building a new house may want to investigate making the home fully automated.
Even thinking about anything high-tech can make some homeowners panic, but hiring the right company at the beginning of the design process can help a lot. Ensuring the new home is wired properly to handle full automation, including new technology and new products that will most certainly come onto the market in the future, makes perfect sense. Even if the home construction budget doesn’t stretch to installing all the bells and whistles, the new home will be properly
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wired to handle installation in increments, as budget allows. Andrew McCormick and Aris Catevatis, principals with Ace Integrated Systems, make total sense when they explain what is a complicated subject for many: the technology itself and the installation of automated systems. The first order of business, says McCormick, is to get to know the client. CONTINUED ON P.2
Market conditions beginning to improve Residential sales increased for the second month in a row throughout the province in September, reports the BCREA. However, the 5,511 homes sold last month still represent a 36 per cent decline compared to the same month last year. On a seasonally adjusted basis, MLS (the industry’s listing service) residential unit sales in the province increased two per cent in September compared to August and the average MLS listing price climbed four per cent to $493,846 last month compared to the same month last year. “B.C. home sales increased for the second consecutive month in September,” says Cameron Muir, BCREA chief economist. Cameron Muir But, he notes, consumer demand is still noticeably lower than last fall’s frenetic pace. “Market conditions have improved, with the months of supply declining from 11.1 in June to 8.9 in September,” Muir says. A balanced market typically exhibits five to seven months of supply, says the BCREA. “The current downward pressure on mortgage rates is expected to bolster housing demand this fall as consumers take advantage of a second opportunity to secure near-record low interest rates,” Muir says. Year-to-date, B.C. residential sales dollar volume increased two per cent to $29.6 billion, compared to the same period last year, the BCREA says. CONTINUED ON P.2
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