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By Mary Francis Hill - The Province

Visitors to the display space at Kindred, Fairborne Homes’ new planned community in North Vancouver, will find a style and point of view that seems comfortably familiar.

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By Simon Briault

Peter Lafuente has an eye for multi-family real estate, so when his parents began to think about downsizing from their West Vancouver home, he was on hand to help them find something that would give them the new lifestyle they wanted.

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Susan M Boyce - New home & Condo Guide pg. 40

This is it. Your first opportunity to be part of an evolution in North Vancouver's Moodyville neighbourhood.

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Condo Guide

It's a sunny day here in Lower Lonsdale. Flowering cherry trees line the traffic-calmed street, and a man sitting on one of the many park benches is tackling today's Sudoku while sipping a steaming latte.

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By Shawn Conner - The Vancouver Sun

It’s like the tag line says: Sometimes you just know.

That’s how it was for Millie Beckel when she came across Eton, a new development in the Panorama area of Surrey.

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By MARY FRANCES HILL, The Province

Decor in Ashbury Hill display homes designed to appeal to distinct tastes

The beauty of a natural landscape carries a universal appeal among homebuyers, and it's one of the attractions for visitors to Ashbury Hill, a townhome project in Surrey situated next to a two-acre greenbelt with a salmon stream.

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Ashbury Hill residences in Surrey back on to greenbelt that is complete with salmon stream.

Project location: 61st Avenue and 148th Street, Surrey
Project size: 64 townhomes in the Panorama area in three phases; 1,160 - 1,330 sq. ft.
Price: from $284,900 to $329,900
Developer: Fairborne Homes
Architect: Formwerks Architectural
Interior design: Fairborne in-house Sales centre: #100 - 14833 61st Ave., Panorama Hours: noon to 5 p.m., Thurs. to Sat.
Contact: Tara Lok or Victoria Zimny at 604-953-1211
Website: ashburyhill.com
Occupancy: Two two-bedroom-dens available now.
Completion expected by summer 2014.

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Ever the professional, Fairborne Homes’ interior designer Erin Kenwood is not above admitting it; she’s infused more than a few of her personal details into the design of the display suites at the Silverwood project in Surrey’s Fleetwood neighbourhood.

So far, the neighbourhood and the homes — particularly the four-bedroom suites — have attracted families. That comes as no surprise to Fairborne’s marketing staff, who see the value in the nearby sports centre and the burgeoning neighbourhood.

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Schools, shopping and recreation all nearby in Surrey

All buyers must weigh many factors when they're considering where to live. However, deciding between residency in the heart of a city or in a more suburban environment doesn't have to revolve around compromise, suggest Amy Medard de Chardon.

"With the Golden Ears Bridge, people are now making Surrey their first choice," says the director of marketing for Fairborne Homes. " We like to build in amenity-rich neighbourhoods because we don't want people to feel as though they're sacrificing anything."

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As an interior designer for Fairborne Homes, Erin Kenwood works from the outside in.

Fairborne has built homes in communities that include Surrey and Richmond - each with a distinct personality. So Kenwood is used to adjusting her eye to the character of a neighbourhood before she plans a design.

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對Gayle Brocklehurst來說，要找一處合適的房產，首先就要調查這處房產所在的小區。

2011年6月，她知道是要搬家的時候了。她的兒子今年28歲，他理想的生活就是環遊世界到處遊歷。所以Brocklehurst賣掉了自己在西溫哥華的家，在北溫哥華Lower Lonsdale小區，Fairborne開發商的Time樓盤出租了一套一間卧室一間書房的公寓。

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For Gayle Brocklehurst, the art of homehunting begins with a neighbourhood survey of sorts.

In June of 2011, she knew it was time to move forward. Her son was 28. Shewas keen to purcuse a life of less work, more socializing and travel. So she sold her large West Vancouver home and rented a home with one bedroom and a den at Time, a North Vancouver building developed by Fairborne Homes in Lower Lonsdale.

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A splashy launch is scheduled today for the release of the 348 condos in the Mandarin Residences in Richmond, and odds are they’ll be enthusiastically — and quickly — embraced by people who are looking for more than just a home.

Many, no doubt, will also be drawn to the fact that the two 16-storey glass and concrete towers will be but steps from the Canada Line’s Brighouse Station, and directly opposite Richmond Centre mall.

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Mandarin Residences sales coordinator Judy Hsieh relaxes in the well-appointed two-bedroom show home, one of two that’s been welcoming visitors at the project’s presentation centre.

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