Isle developers consider impact of ‘Great Recession’ (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) – hawaiihomeprices.com 07/09/2009 There are “green shoots” — signs of recovery — in Hawaii’s real estate market, but they will need serious fertilizer to take root. That was the assessment of a speaker’s panel at yesterday’s Hawaii Developers’ Council annual mid-year real estate forecast.

June 2009 Greater Vancouver Real Estate Market Update It was a June to remember for the Vancouver real estat market, as sales and prices pushed upwards amidst a renewed optimism in the global economy recovery coupled with lowered asking prices and historically low interest rates. In the Greater Vancouver area, the price of a detached house in June 2009 was about 8% higher then in February 2009 ($649,000 benchmark price) and up 3% compared to this May 2009 (benchmark price of $680,000).