i enjoy the various programs HGTV Canada broadcasts, some of them are now reflecting the US real estate problems, great deals for buyers, foreclosure sales, trying to close a bank owned house, 'Real Estate Intervention' where sellers are gasping after learning how low they have to price their home to sell it - not i was just watching a 'Property Virgin' show location Cincinnati, viewing houses priced around $100,000 - first broadcast Oct 08, 2007 boy that's old, anyway very nice houses and cheap, and it got me thinking about Vancouver, Canada average house prices - C$: Vancouver: sea and ski $749,808 Calgary: oil $462,465 Edmonton: oil $363,694 Toronto: financial center $423,559 Ottawa: capital $318,655 Montreal: french $240,000 prices from http://www.chpc.biz/ and see the '8 charts' etc i think there's more houses for sale in the US than have been built in Canada so no surprise the buoyant market here - and no subprimes of course