Why not just Google the area you want to buy into and type in Realtors. Should bring up all the Realty Companies. Easy Peasy and they'll help you buy however much property you want. Will probably refer you to any lawyer you might need too.

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MariahIvoire Victoria BC - sign up with a real estate firm that gives you free the multible listings of all homes. ReMax is a big firm. Just search them and get an agent. Victoria is the warmest weather, nicest affordable big city, close to the US, great outdoor locations, ferry to the mainland. Vancouver is a concrete hell with no parking and gridlock. It's only pretty when there are no clouds which is rarely. The cheapest homes there start at $1,000,000. Remember the Canadian loonie is only worth 59 cents American, so if you got dollars now is the time to buy. Point Roberts, just off Richmond BC, South of Vancouver is actually US territory, but you have to be in Canada to drive there. Canadians can only stay there 6 months of the year. Cheap there and very nice waterfront. If you want stunning waterfront, look at Vancouver Island from just North of the Malahat mountain to Duncan = Ladysmith - Nanaimo (I live there and its great 80,000 people, has everything including a University) Parksville - Qualicum - (then going further North the weather changes) to Courtnay/Comox. Further North on Vancouver Island is nice, but a bit bushed. Campbell River the last outpost of normal cities. The Islands are nice too - Saltspring particularly then off Nanaimo - Gabriola.

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wafa - Try ReMax and get their multible listing feed. Vancouver Island beats anywhere. Starting from Victoria, the warmest, most sunny city in Canada, the Capital of BC and going North to Courtnay. Great waterfront homes. Saltspring Island is incredible. Cowichan Bay is incredible. I live in Nanaimo for 24 years and I love it there. Gabriola Island is just off the downtown if you like a more hmm alternative life.

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Ok thanks

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Thanks for your

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I work as a realtor in downtown Vancouver and I would be happy to help you find a home anywhere in metro Vancouver area. I've worked with a lot of new comers to Canada. I've been an expat myself in several occasions and also worked for Canadian Embassy abroad.
This is a link to a blog I published a few months ago including some details about property purchase in British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.corinamarin.com/Blog.php/category/General/buying-a-home-in-british-columbia

I just sent you a private message at the email you provided. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
CMRealty.
www.corinamarin.com

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It never fails to make me laugh how people who live on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver love to repeat how great their climate is. That they get it wrong doesn't seem to matter to them.

The warmest, driest climate in Canada is in the Okanagan Valley, not on Vancouver island.

What Vancouver Island and Vancouver have is the MILDEST climate in Canada. What that means is that the range of temperatures varies less than elsewhere. It isn't the warmest, it isn't the coldest, it's the mildest.

What they also get is as hell of a lot of RAIN. Something those living there always seem to ignore. If you want warm and dry, it is the Okanagan Valley you need to look at.

But everywhere has its pluses and minuses. Other than climate, wineries and scenery which you can quickly get tired of, the Okanagan has little to attract someone to living there.

Ontario has far more diversity to offer within a short drive of the major cities. The Muskoka region north of Toronto for example has been chosen several times by National Geographic as THE best place for a family to vacation. They didn't pick Victoria or the 'Sunshine Coast' of Vancouver Island for that.

Ontario also has the farthest south point in Canada. Point Pelee on Lake Erie shares the same latitude as the northern border of California as well as Madrid and Rome!

You can see on this map just how many US states are NORTH of Pelee on this map:
http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/?loc=point+pelee%2C+ontario#.VtHGC4-cEcA
That's likely to surprise most US readers who think of Canada as being north of them. Well, it depends on which state they live in.

The region along Lake Erie from Windsor to London is known as the 'Banana Belt'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_belt

My point is, that those who keep labouring under the illusion that Vancouver and Vancouver Island are somehow the 'best' that Canada has to offer, need to get out more and discover that while they are no doubt nice places to live, they are by no means the 'best' places to live unless they offer what YOU personally want. They don't have the climate advantage some people seem to think they have and they have as many down sides as up sides, depending on what matters to the individual.

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Old P - You are misleading people. The Okanagan is beautiful, yes. The winter is heavy snow & very cold, the summer is lots and lots of forest fires, hot and humid. Yes it has less rain unfortunately as people would still have their homes they lost in the raging forest fires there every summer With the winter rain you don't have 3 foot snow falls to shovel. Cloudy yes. I have lived in Vancouver from 1968 to 2012. Now you can't find a parking place if you tried. Great city for a young person if you are rich. On a cloudy day, it is an ugly concrete and asphalt landscape. You can't buy a house for less than 1 million. I left Vancouver for Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in 1992. I like to fish, hike, The Pacific Rim National Park, even the drive there beats any scenery back East. Vancouver Island is best from Victoria to Courtnay, but no further North than that. Have you ever lived in Vancouver or on Vancouver Island? Probably not. Otherwise you would not be knocking Vancouver Island.

Victoria is the best city in Canada (natural beauty, shopping restaurants, city life). I have worked all over BC and traveled to Ontario many times. Ontario is brutally cold in the winter, ice storms and very hot and humid in the summer. I liked Ottawa better than Toronto. Torontoran's are snobs. Why are people leaving there when they retire and going to Vancouver Island? Great big cities, crowded freeways, expensive parking, fancy malls. A Toronto house costs over 1 million. Condo 500,000. The sunshine coast is boring, It's OK for people who want to live outside Vancouver and commute by ferry (50 min.) to Horseshoe Bay and then 30 minutes to Vancouver (expensive unless you take the bus). Geography North/South has nothing to do with the weather. Where is the Jet Stream going? That's the weather factor. I have been in Canada 57 years and nothing beats Vancouver Island. Nanaimo where I live is fine, a bit depressing in the winter with the cloudy days, most of the time from -5 to 7 or 9 cl. Nothing a wood stove won't fix. The Muskoka region is very pretty as parts of Quebec. But you got very cold and very hot/humid weather there. On Vancouver Island from May to November, nothing beats the weather. Practically no rain on Van Isle. last summer we had drought. Stay's between 17 cl at night and 22 cl. during the day. AirCon on outside. The first week of August it can get to 28 during the day. No illusion Pro as I have been 23 years on Vancouver Island. It;s Beautiful and the weather starts improving with longer and warmer days in the last weeks of February. Just November to February lousy. Windsor is ugly, don't go there. I also worked in the Yukon and Northern BC. Don't go there. Go to anywhere from Victoria to Courtnay. Courtnay has a little more rain than Nanaimo and a little colder but really nice beautiful place.
There are so many nice cities and islands that make great places to live from Nanaimo to Victoria, I have to say you really don't know what you are talking about.

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Victoria, British Columbia I have lived on Vancouver Island for 23 years and traveled all over Canada since 1968. Nothing beats Victoria as a place to live.

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correction: I lived in Vancouver from 1968 to 1992, then moved to Nanaimo and live there from April to October. Off to my home in the Philippines next to a nice beach from October to April every year. No more winters for me, but hot and humid in the Philippines.

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I agree with Vancouver Island as the destination of choice. Best climate in all of Canada and prices are still reasonable (except around Victoria). Remax is a big realtor and you can see all listings on realtor.ca but specific recommendation is this property. Beautiful 5 acre property plus multiple buildings for under $600k (USD $445)

http://www.robgrey.com/listing/400652?pt=x&bed=0&bath=0&pricemin=0&pricemax=0&city=&ma=&rgo=y&p=1

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Wishing you the best of luck on your move. To make the most of your money, I recommend using Furnishr.com. They offer an array of custom design options which they will help you choose from and have set up in one day!

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I am emigrating to the Philippines ASAP and wish to sell my Heritage Home in Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island which I consider the best, most affordable place to live in BC having been here since 1968 and spent 30 years in a Vancouver home which are all over $1,000,000 . I want to sell my home with its furnishings. The cost of the furnishings, (some quite valuable), tools, power tools. lawn and garden equipment dinnerware and kitchen appliances, cookware is to be determined. The cost of the home would be on the basis of an official appraisal. It has a very nice garden, 1/2 from new shopping mall, with back facing south open space of acreages, yet close to town and the ferry to Vancouver.

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