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Bay, that was an operational gravel pit for 100 years. “This is $50 million and it is 10 times more important than any interchange,” said region. Mayor Stew Young at A big one this year the groundbreaking, was the opening of the June 27. Leigh Road interchange, The groundbreaking June 15. for the Colwood school The opening of the was on Sept. 27 and interchange closed included a visit from access from the Trans Tour de France cyclist Canada Highway and Ryder Hesjedal whom Spencer Road. Now the school’s road, access to Goldstream Avenue is only posCharla Huber Ryder Hesjedal Way, Reporting will be named after. sible from with Leigh or “This is what it’s all Millstream Road overabout,” said Peter Fasspasses. bender, minister of education. The interchange cost $25 mil“It’s about the future of our young lion paid for primarily by five private developers on Bear Moun- people, it’s about opening new doors of opportunity and providtain and South Skirt Mountain. ing facilities that will help them The province is also chipped in on their education journey.” $4 million. Both schools are set to open in A long awaited change came September 2016. in the spring as ground broke for The City of Langford spent the two new high schools on the some time in 2013 enhancing West Shore. two of its lakes with a new boat The new Belmont secondary launch at Langford Lake as well school is being built at the foras expanding the beach and mer site of Glen Lake elementary school and the Royal Bay second- playground area there. Glen Lake Beach Park was also created and ary school is being build at Royal hanges have been made on the West Shore this year, after all it’s the fast growing area in the

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gave a new home to the playground formerly at the Glen Lake elementary school. Opportunities for West Shore youths expanded this year, including positions for at-risk youth partnering with Pacific Centre Services Association. The association opened Skookum Food and Coffee in December providing jobs and training for 10 youth from the community. All of the youth employees of Skookum Coffee will be referred through the association’s youth programs at the West Shore Child, Youth and Family Centre. The Colwood Rotary playground at West Shore Parks and Recreation also broke ground, but fundraising is still ongoing to move onto Phase 2 of the project. As of now an area has been dug out, but the ground covering and playground equipment has yet to be added. Capital City Centre in Colwood was earmarked for the largest development on Vancouver Island is at a standstill. League Financial Partners, the group behind the Colwood development, filed for a Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, Oct. 18. The application for creditor protection was extended to June 28, 2014. During that time League is selling some its assets, not

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hough a great many things were reported in the pages of the Goldstream News Gazette in 2013, there were a few issues notable for what hasn’t changed over the course of a year. Articles throughout 2012 lamented the continued lack of emergency or transitional housing for youth in the West Shore. Here we are again. While strides have certainly been made with the Threshold Housing Society taking the reigns from the West Shore Youth Housing Task Force in getting an initiative off the ground, the fact remains there is still no housing. For another winter youth who leave their homes for one reason or another have nowhere to go other than downtown, with all that comes with it. Controversy surrounding the 40 Days for Life, and its related vigils outside of the Vancouver Island Women’s Clinic in View Royal, continued in 2013, as it has since 2011. In 2013 Esquimalt-Royal Roads MLA Maurine Karagianis announced she would be appealing to the provincial government to increase the bubble around clinics which perform abortions, ostensibly pushing vigil participants out of the area. Members of the vigil have denounced the idea as a violation of their rights of free speech, while those in support say women should be able to visit the clinic without being bothered. Tensions reached a boiling point when a protestor allegedly entered the clinic, an incident still under investigation by West Shore RCMP. The debate continues and another 40-day vigil is likely in March. One thing that hasn’t

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Choose Life Victoria president Steve Weatherbe, right, and 40 Days for Life co-ordinator Alex Berns stand across the street from the View Royal health clinic. changed will be considered a success story by many and a disappointing failure by a few. A proposed development in the Royal Bay area of Colwood was shot down by a City of Colwood committee after neighbouring residents loudly opposed the density of the development. About 100 residents showed up to a committee meeting to voice their concerns with the project and in the end the committee voted to tell the developer to go back to the drawing board. The application was ultimately withdrawn, leaving the future of the parcel of land an unknown. The Capital Regional District’s sewage treatment is still the biggest question mark for the entire region, but in the West Shore the question is still, what’s the cost? Colwood especially is still in a bad way, trying to figure out how much to pay and how to pay it. Initial capital costs already threaten to increase costs by 100 per cent to current sewage users or a two per cent increase to all if spread out among the tax base.

With major components of the project still up in the air (including the most basic: where it will be), the final cost and timeline for the project are still unknown. Commuters travelling to and from the West Shore during peak periods of traffic know all to well one staple that hasn’t changed: the Colwood Crawl. Although many ideas are still being tossed around on how to ease the traffic congestion, they all remain talk, with no initiatives gaining any noticeable traction in 2013. In fact, there are even fewer options now with the commuter ferry from the West Shore to CFB Esquimalt cancelled in April due to low ridership. Talk surrounding the rebirth of the E&N Railroad or the creation of light rail transportation, or of any alternative to jamming our roads with cars, have been noticeably quiet recently. Perhaps the voice of the cyclist, still championing the convenience and benefits of the Galloping Goose Trail, can now be heard. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

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Last year full of surprises Ah, the end of the year, a time for reflection and enjoying that one, last (really, we mean it) shortbread cookie. It’s also a great time to look back and compare what we thought might materialize in the Capital Region over the year and what actually occurred. We started 2013 looking ahead to a provincial election and undeniably (or so we thought) a new political direction for the province. Oops. We weren’t the only ones surprised by the outcome of the election which saw Christy Clark’s Liberals returned to power. As we poked through our predictions for the year looking for the outcomes, one thing became pretty clear: 2013 was the year of new beginnings. We saw the secondary sewage treatment project take tangible steps forward including the Capital Regional District’s purchase of the Viewfield Road site in Esquimalt. OK, that didn’t pan out so well. After spending some $17 million on the property, the citizens of Esquimalt, led by Mayor Barb Desjardins, closed the lid on that idea. Other start-ups that have moved ahead in proper order include the replacement of the Johnson Street Bridge. With early construction work on the new bridge taking place while the Blue Bridge remains open, commuters face minimal disruption. Speaking of bridges, we can’t say it’s been the same easy ride for the Craigflower Bridge reconstruction. With work starting in April, residents and business owners expected the bridge to re-open Dec. 1. With construction delays attributed to a North American steel shortage making it difficult to acquire materials, and the discovery that the bridge, as planned, would end up seismically unsafe, the span that connects View Royal to Saanich will not re-open until May. Though commuters may not be happy, students in the region will be cheerful on two counts. There were no disruptions due to job action in 2013 and new schools are on the way. The West Shore will finally see the construction of two much-needed high schools. They include the new Belmont secondary being built at the former site of Glen Lake elementary school and Royal Bay secondary school being build on what was an operational gravel pit for 100 years. And in Oak Bay, the new Oak Bay High is well underway adjacent to the century-old building. All three broke ground this spring. Two municipalities stuck their necks out on the deer issue this year. Central Saanich and Oak Bay have both okayed deer culls. While all residents are not on board with the idea, at least decisions have been made at an executive level – hopefully we can look forward to more of that in 2014. The News Gazette is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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retailers, developers, farmers, artists and businesses can get stronger and stronger as they still continue to come out of the recession. There continues to be many new businesses opening up in the West Shore and we wish the very best for them for 2014. We’d like to extend a special shout out to all our friends and neighbours in our local First Nations for a healthy 2014. Many of these friends have families and colleagues who continue to suffer the challenges of difficult economic and social circumstances. Their leaders are working hard to turn that around. A heartfelt wish for our local communities and municipal leaders to continue to learn to collaborate and co-operate on any number of fronts. This is a positive response to annual cries for amalgamation and can only produce more efficiencies and cost savings and better customer service across the region. Lastly, we’d like to extend New Year’s wishes to our remarkable young West Shore families (and the grandparents who are following them out) who continue to pour into this community, working hard, commuting where required, juggling their family pressures and somehow still filling West Shore facilities and events with smiling faces and good cheer. You are the reason we are all here – have a fantastic, safe and prosperous New Year for 2014! Dan Spinner is CEO of West Shore Chamber of Commerce dspinner@westshore.bc.ca

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With the end of the year upon us, this is a time to photos from the two-day music festival. - Sometimes social media can be useful in the reflect on the major events and moments of 2013. And thanks to social media we no longer have simplest of ways, for instance in helping spread to use our actual memories to achieve this. So the word about high levels of bacteria in Glen Lake here, in chronological order, are some of the Gold- in July. Over 800 people saw that post, with many stream News Gazette’s most talked about, liked, passing the word along by sharing the link. - A prison break from William Head Institucommented, shared etc. Facebook posts of 2013: - A posted photo and article on the Pacific Insti- tion in September had over 1,000 people taking to Facebook to see tute of Sport Excela mug shot of the lence donating 20 new considered-dangertrack bikes for Greater ous escapees. LuckVictoria Velodrome ily the two men were Association programs scooped up by the on March 6 got a huge authorities in short amount of traffic, with order and are back some 2,241 people behind bars. Another viewing the post and thought-to-be break14 sharing it. out 10 days later got - A post on March more than 2,000 hits. 27 about nine-year-old This time the inmate Katrina Van Winkle thanking View Royal File Photo was found still on firefighters and, par- A post about a nine-year-old girl thanking View prison grounds. - A photo of reporter ticularly, Chief Paul Royal Fire and Rescue for saving her life was one Charla Huber repelHurst, got a lot of of the most popular of the year on Facebook. ling down the side attention and a great of downtown’s CIBC many “likes.” Hurst had pulled the unconscious girl out of a house fire building for charity in September brought in a lot the week before she and her classmates went to of supportive likes and comments. - Nearly 1,500 people saw a Facebook post linkthe fire hall for a personal thank you. - Apparently photos of firefighters are a big draw ing to a story about a young man who had missed on Facebook, with a post on Colwood’s bravest Halloween due to the flu. His entire neighbourout to collect money for Muscular Dystrophy Can- hood took part in a late Halloween just for him, so he could still go door-to-door and get candy. ada earning nearly 1,000 hits back in May. - Earlier in December, a story on the Langford - A gas leak on Jacklin Road on May 27 caused the road to be closed and Gazette readers clearly Caprice closing down on Jan. 5, 2014 saw nearly turned to our Facebook page for the latest, with 2,000 views and brought in comments from many over 1,000 people finding out when the road had lamenting the loss of the cinema. “This was the only affordable place in town,” wrote Teresa Lonreopened from a post. - Both those at and missing out on Rock the sdale. Shores 2013 took to Facebook for live updates and

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shut down IsoHunt (Oct. 19) - 8,051 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/business/ 228472911. html 4. Center of the Universe in Saanich to close at the end of summer (June 20) - 6,519 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/ news/212384661.html 5. Shipping container explodes in Saanich after propane leak (April 26) - 4,159 UV.

Find this story at vicnews.com/ news/204847131.html 6. Fire engulfs Tudor House Pub (July 16) - 4,015 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/news/ 215678221.html 7. Victoria News unveils 2013 Best of the City (June 27) - 3,729 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/ news /213399341.html 8. Mega yacht Athena makes stop in Victoria (June 6) - 3,602

UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/ news/210494861.html 9. Cyclist injured by wire hanging across hiking trail in rural Victoria (June 6) - 3,240 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/ news/210444241.html 10. Missile launcher found in Hartland recycling bin (Sept. 10) - 2,971 UV. Find this story at vicnews.com/news/223149081.html editor@vicnews.com

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June

Jan. 1 – Scouts’ Polar Bear Swim at Camp Bernard. www.victoriascouts.ca Jan. 3 – Free skate for SD62 students, 4 to 6 pm at City Centre Park, www.eagleridgecentre.com Jan. 3, 4, 11, 17, 18, 24 & 26 – Victoria Grizzlies play at Bear Mountain Arena. www.victoriagrizzlies.com Jan. 4 & 5 – JDF Venturers’ Tree Chipping fundraiser by donation, 10am to 4pm at Luxton Fairgrounds. Jan. 4 & 5 – BC Lions’ Tree chipping at & Westshore Town Centre & Sooke Home Hardware. Jan. 11 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. Jan. 11 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, featuring Karel Roessingh, highlands.bc.ca Jan. 25 – Metchosin’s Got Talent, Pearson College. Jan. 28 – Free Coast Capital Swim, JDF Pool, www. westshorerecreation.ca

Feb. 1 – Enchanting Wedding Show, 10am to 4pm, Bear Mountain Arena. Feb. 2 – Westshore Rebels Superbowl Party fundraiser, Langford Legion, westshorerebelsfootball.com Feb. 8 – Metchosin Agriculture Workshop, municipal grounds, www.district.metchosin.bc.ca Feb. 8 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, featuring Wire Tap, highlands.bc.ca Feb. 8, 9, 21 & 23 – Victoria Grizzlies play at Bear Mountain Arena, www.victoriagrizzlies.com Feb. 9 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. www.bulldoggreen.ca Feb. 10 – Family Day swims & skates at JDF Recreation www.westshorerecreation.ca Feb. 21 – Pro-D skate (12:30 to 1:30 pm) and swim (3 to 5 pm) at JDF Recreation, www.westshorerecreation.ca

TBA – Victoria Grizzlies playoffs at Bear Mountain Arena. www.victoriagrizzlies.com March 7 – Pro-D Swim, 3 to 5 pm at JDF Recreation, www.westshorerecreation.ca March. 8 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, highlands.bc.ca March 9 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. March 9 – Spring forward for Daylight Savings. March 15 – Baden-Powell Dinner & Silent Auction, Royal Colwood Golf Club, www.victoriascouts.ca March 15 to 23 – Spring Break for SD 62, www.sd62. bc.ca March 25 – Free Coast Capital Swim, 7:30 to 8:30 pm, Juan de Fuca Recreation, www.westshorerecreation.ca

March 26 to April 13 – Blooms, at the Coast Collective Gallery April 8 – BikeJam, 9 am to 4 pm at JDF lower fields, www.schoolbikeleague.com April 12 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, highlands.bc.ca April 12 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. April 18 – Good Friday April 19 – Kinette Easter Egg Hunt, 10am at Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre. April 25 to 27 – Victoria Spring Home Expo, Juan de Fuca Rec Centre, www.homeshowtime.com Enjoy the spring wildflowers in the West Shore... including Colwood’s St. John the Baptist Church, St. Mary’s Church in Metchosin and Mill Hill Park.

May 10 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, featuring Wire Tap, highlands.bc.ca May 11 – Mother’s Day Paint-in, Hatley Park. May 11 – Metchosin Farmer’s Market opens for the season, 11am to 2pm Sundays through October. May 10 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. May 17 & 18 (TBC) – Historic Military Encampment at Fort Rodd Hill. May 17 to 19 – Luxton Pro Rodeo. May 24 & 25 – Fired Up! Pottery show & sale, Metchosin Community Hall, www.firedup.ca May 25 – Highlands Market opens, 10am to 1pm, Caleb Pike Heritage Park. May 31 – Community Garage Sale, 10 am to 2 pm, JDF Curling Rink, www.westshorerecreation.ca

Visit the Goldstream Station Market, Saturdays, 10am to 2pm on Bryn Maur Rd, downtown Langford. Support your Victoria Shamrocks at Bear Mountain June 1 – Sooke Secret Garden Tour, sookesecretgardens. com June 1 – 2014 Victoria Goddess Run, Langford City Park, victoriagoddess.com June 14 – Highlands Folk Coffee House, 7 pm, Caleb Pike House, highlands.bc.ca June 14 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. June 14 – Relay for Life, City Centre Park, 6pm to 6am, convio.cancer.ca June 15 – Saunders Subaru Victoria Triathlon, Elk Lake. June 28 – Run or Dye 5K, JDF Lower Fields, ca.runordye. com

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June 25 to July 6 – Showcase III, featuring Coast Collective associate members July – Music in the Park, Sundays 2 to 4pm at Veterans Park, www.cityoflangford.ca July 1 – Canada Day celebrations at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Sites. July – Watch for the Classy Caddies Vintage Cadillac Car Show at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. July 12 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. July 13 – Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra’s Philharmonic Fling, Ed. McGregor Park, www.sookephil.ca July 26 to Aug. 5 – Sooke Fine Arts Show, Seaparc Leisure Centre July 27 – Colwood Rotary Art & Wine Festival, Fort Rodd Hill

Support your Victoria Rebels football team at Westhills Stadium at City Centre Park, westshorerebelsfootball. com Aug. 4 – BC Day – watch for local events & activities. Aug. 9 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. August – Medieval Village at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. Aug. 24 – Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, www. tourdevictoria.com Labour Day is almost here...Time for back to school shopping! Harvest time: Savour the flavours at your local farmer’s markets in Metchosin, Langford and the Highlands.

Support your Juan de Fuca Grizzlies at Bear Mountain Arena. www.victoriagrizzlies.com Sept. 2 – Back to school! Sept. 7 – English Car Affair in the Park, Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. Sept. 7 – Metchosin Day, Metchosin Municipal Grounds. Sept. 12 to 14 – Luxton Fair at the Luxton Fairgrounds,www.luxtonfair.ca Sept. 13 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. Sept. 14 – Highland Fling, Caleb Pike Heritage Park, www.calebpikeheritagepark.org Sept. 20 – Gorge Waterway Clean-Up, burnsidegorge.ca September – Fort Rodd Hill Lantern Tour, 250-4784389.

October – Black Press Women in Business Awards & Gala. Info: adminassist@vicnews.com To early October – Savour the local bounty at the Metchosin and Langford Farmers’ Markets. Oct. 13 – Happy Thanksgiving! Oct. 11 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. www.bulldoggreen.ca Late October – The annual Ghosts of Victoria Festival offers some special spooky activities around the region. Late October – Head to Goldstream Park to take in the fall Salmon Run. Oct. 31 – Happy Halloween! Find family fun at local firehalls and City Centre Park. Watch the Goldstream News Gazette for details about local events.

November – Browse your West Shore Recreation Active Living Guide for seasonal events and activities, www. westshorerecreation.ca Don’t forget those in need – support the West Shore Food Bank this holiday season. Nov. 2 – Fall back: Daylight Savings Time ends. Nov. 8 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day at Veterans Memorial Park,www.cityoflangford.ca Nov. 22 – Take on the Bear Mountain 10K, www.bearmountain10k.ca Watch for Santa’s arrival at Westshore Town Centre, www. westshoretowncentre.com Local artists & artisans gear up for the holiday season

December – Head to Westhills Arena for outdoor ice skating. Dec. 6 – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Convoy, www.ieoa.ca Early December – Christmas Light-up at Veterans Park, www.cityoflangford.ca December – Watch for the Fleet Diving Unit Christmas Hamper Turkey Run. Dec. 13 – Bulldog GREEN recycling depot, Belmont Secondary, 9am to noon. Dec. 21 – Santa Run with the Metchosin Fire Department, www.metchosinfire.ca Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas! Dec. 31 – Farewell 2014, Welcome 2015!

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low Oak Bay resident. Hall was named B.C.’s High School Athlete of the Year. He played for Team B.C. at the Las Vegas International Sevens youth tournament and is a starter for the Vikes in the CDI Premier Rugby League. Hall played fullback in the 2013 Barnard Cup Island rugby championship and kicked a try conversion and two penalty goals, despite losing to James Bay. Ryder Hesjedal came under fire in Canadian media when the book by Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen, Yellow Fever, told of the author introducing synthetic erythropoietin (EPO), which boosts the red-blood cell count, to Victoria cyclists Hesjedal and Seamus McGrath during their world series mountain biking season in 2003. The media reaction forced out a public admission of guilt from Hesjedal and McGrath, though they are only the latest cyclists to do so.

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ling hockey tale than that of Bestwick’s. He spun magic to turn the Grizzlies into a team that held first place in the B.C. Hockey League for a good chunk of the 2012-13 season and then defeated the Powell River Kings in the playoffs before losing to the Alberni Bulldogs in overtime of the fifth and final game of the second round playoff series. Everything Bestwick touched in his short time here, just about 16 months, turned to gold. The good news is Didmon (and maybe it’s what made Bestwick expendable in the first place) was in on all of Bestwick’s decisions and has a firm grip on what the Grizzlies need to do to get into the BCHL final for the first time in a long time.

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HomeFinder Find a place to call home

Q: WHAT SHOULD I KEEP IN MIND BEFORE PUTTING AN OFFER ON MY DREAM HOME?

1. Are we pre-qualified for a mortgage? 2. Is the home in a neighbourhood that works for us? 3. What’s that smell? 4. Is it really a good deal? 5. How much are closing expenses? 6. What furnishings do I have that may not fit? 7. Are there any pending legal issues on this home? 8. Have I had the home inspected? 9. What is the appraised value of the home (not the assessment)?

GREATER VICTORIA MARKET UPDATE » as of DEC. 20

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BUYING TIP | Consult a realtor to help guide you through the foreclosure sale process

Foreclosure sales: more than meets the eye The chances of paying below market price on a home aren’t as great as you might think

As we roll into the fifth week publishing HomeFinder, we’re discovering there are always exceptions to well-established rules. Take December, for example. The number of listings traditionally drop a little lower as home sellers take a break for the holidays. But not everyone is content to focus mainly on socializing and enjoying some wellearned time off, as we discovered in a recent email from a HomeFinder reader. This correspondent told us about a townhome listing he and his wife checked out just before Christmas 2012 in Langford. Turned out it was a foreclosure sale and to make a long story short, they put in a relatively lowball offer and it went unchal-

building – the process somewhat resembles an auction. Additional bids to the original are presented and made known to all in attendance. Then, to level the playing field, the interested parties are sent out of the room to determine their final bid, which is put in a sealed envelope before everyone comes back into chambers. “Sometimes people will overpay for a foreclosure, because they get caught up in the whirlwind of (the bid process),” Sheppard says, adding it can be challenging for novices to know just how much to bid. “That’s why it’s important to work with a realtor who can give you the realistic fair market value of a home.” While it’s anyone’s guess who might show up at a foreclosure hearing, he believes that the initial “buyer” of such homes have a “homefield advantage” of sorts. By that, he means they’ve presumably done all the work, like having the appropriate inspections done and removing any outstanding conditions to be able to purchase the home.

lenged during the required court proceedings. We wondered just how common their experience is in Greater Victoria. Apparently not very, according to local realtor Dale Sheppard, who has worked on a number of foreclosure sales over the years. “For the most part (the home) generally goes for fair market value,” he says. There’s various reasons for that, Sheppard explains. Not only are lending institutions mandated to get as much as possible for the home, he says, once an offer is accepted and conditions lifted – as with traditional vendor home sales – the accepted price is then made public and a court date set. That information usually attracts other potential buyers who usually drive the price up. Sheppard says the final decision on who gets the home lies with the presiding officer of the court, but it frequently goes to the highest bidder. Come court time – hearings are almost always held in “chambers” upstairs in the Victoria Law Courts

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