Buyer’s system & books

We pride ourselves on having the best-informed clients. To help achieve this goal, we’ve created the most comprehensive system to help our clients succeed. We’re sharing much of that system here (without cost to you) as our contribution towards improving the Vancouver real estate market.

Our books and resources will help you confidently walk through your buying process, find the right home, and save money.


Vancouver Condo Buyer’s Guide

Our Vancouver Condo Buyer’s Guide is the most extensive book for buyers of Vancouver condos. The book details the condo lifestyle, BC real estate system, and each of your 6 condo buying steps. In oversized format, it contains over 50 beautiful full colour pictures and 17 informational tables and diagrams. Authored by Jason Hutchison, the book was designed by Burnkit and printed by Hemlock Printer, both local companies.
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Download a free copy of this book (PDF) – this will open a DropBox folder where you can download the book. You don’t need to have a DropBox account.
Released 2015

Buying a Condo in Vancouver – Financial Supplement

There is much information to digest and tasks to complete to successfully buy your dream home. During your journey, you will receive 3 Next Steps Emails to keep you laser focused. Each email will detail our next tasks and how we will accomplish them together. Clients consistently comment how these updates are invaluable in keeping them on track and in control.
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Download a free copy of this book (PDF) – this will open a DropBox folder where you can download the book. You don’t need to have a DropBox account.
Version 1.0 released April 2024

Be in Control – 3 Next Steps Guides

Knowing how our market is performing helps you decide when to buy, what to buy, and how much to offer. Our straightforward and easy to digest monthly condo market reports cut through all the noise to provide you with the best data and insights based on your target neighbourhood, condo type, and price point. If your neighbourhood is not included in our main report, we will tailor a report specifically for your dream home.

Know What You’re Buying – 50+ Point Written Review

Over the years, we have produced a series of checklists to streamline tasks such as identifying the features of your dream home and your move. We have also developed a series of easy to use calculators in Excel. Most popular is our Purchase and Ongoing Cost Calculator designed to ensure you are aware of all your main costs at time of purchase as well as into the bylaws upcoming special assessments, likelihood of the Strata maintenance fees increasing, how well does the strata corporation function, lifestyle and finances. Allow your dog, get the right homeowner’s insurance,  future.
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Guides and Checklists

Alongside you and we’ll use guides when appropriate to focus our work. Being informed of new listings and price changes is crucial. You will see listings on JasonHutchison.ca before they are on other websites as we have a contract in place to pull listings directly from the real estate board rather than an intermediary. To make it easy, we will set-up a system so you are emailed new listings matching your criteria. If you prefer, we will be happy to pre-screen new listings and only send you those that are most promising.
Link to Condo Buyer’s Wishlist