Vancouver's Tallest Building: The Living Shangri-La

One can see around 650 skyscrapers in Vancouver. But, one of the marvel that Vancouver metropolis boasts upon is Living_Shangri-La. Its a 62 storey building having a 5 star hotel and its offices in the first 15 floors. Rest of the tower has condominium apartments.

The Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver is an integral part of a hotel chain named Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. It occupies ground floor to 15th floor, 119 rooms with a Presidential Suite. Also, it has 307 condominium units with 3 penthouses on 61st floor.

Living Shangri-La has been featured in a Hollywood movie named Tron: Legacy.

With such attributes, the hotel is the axis of Real Estate Vancouver. If you are planning to buy/sell property in the city, Lorne Goldman welcomes you at their offices.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La
 

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5 Celebrity Fun Facts about Vancouver

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April 26, 2013 marks the 127^th birthday of city of Vancouver. It was on this day that the small sawmill community of Granville was reborn as the brand new city of Vancouver. The real estate listings in this urbane city today include some of the mist beautiful houses and apartments of British Columbia.

Did you know that this cosmopolitan city bordered with majestic mountains is also associated with several well known personalities? Here are some lesser known facts about Vancouver:

• Frederick John Westcott, better known by his stage name Fred Karno organized a week long engagement in the city in 1911. One of performers in the play was Charlie Chaplin who was 22 years old then.

• Joseph Rudyard Kipling, the English short story writer, novelist and poet visited Vancouver three times beginning in 1892. Impressed by the beauty and culture of the city, he also bought some land here.

• Bing Crosby, American actor who won Academy Award (Best Actor) for 1944 musical comedy Going My Way, often visited Vancouver. However, he was once refused a room at Hotel Vancouver when he walked in casually dressed. With his few days’ growth of facial hair, the perplexed clerk at reservation desk could not recognize him.

• When Johnny Depp had to live in Vancouver for the first season of Jump Street, he got into a tiff with the security guard of his hotel and was arrested. The one night that he spent in a Vancouver prison was enough for tabloids to latch onto and it sparked media’s portrayal of Depp as a ‘hell raiser’. However, to his fans and public in general, he remained polite and constructive about his work.

• Katherine Hepburn used to periodically rent the penthouse of the low rise Rosellen Suites, in Vancouver’s West End area. It is still available for rent.

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The role of a real estate agent in selling your commercial property

Usually the process of selling any piece of commercial property turns out to be quite a daunting task. Selling your property entails making and presenting a convincing case about its merits to its potential buyers and thus creating marketing channels to bring buyers and sellers together. 

A real estate sale, especially commercial real estate sale further requires systematic efforts on the part of the seller to reach a wider set of potential buyers. Just remember marketing plays a chief aspect that you will require to focus more upon.

Find a real estate agent: Either you take efforts yourselves to market your commercial property meant for selling or you have the option of laying this cumbersome job of advertising and finding buyers to a professional and expert real estate agent. The real estate agent will do it for a commission. 

More often you will not have enough time or even the energy to go through the entire property advertising and then follow up the campaign. The vancouver real estate agent can handle it entirely for you. With the task of handling all the paperwork that is involved in closing a deal, they will do it all for you. You don't want your time to be wasted hence hire the services of a real estate agent.

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