This issue contains the following:

• 2010 Annual Crystal Ball Economic Forecast

• Office Holiday Closure

• Debbie Travis Joins The 2010 Spring Home & Garden Show

• Festival of Trees

• Habitat for Humanity National Contest

• CHBA – Victoria’s New Members

• National Conference Comes to Victoria

• Builders’ and Suppliers’ Council

• List Your New Homes For Sale on www.chbavictoria.com

Don't miss CHBA-Victoria's Annual Crystal Ball Session, featuring a housing and economic forecast for our region.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Royal Colwood Golf Club
629 Goldstream Avenue

Agenda:
6:00 pm - reception
7:00 pm - dinner
8:00 pm – presentations

Guest Speakers include:
Lee King
Corporate Representative CMHC
Travis Archibald
Senior Market Analyst CMHC
Randi Masters
President-Elect, Victoria Real Estate Board
Cameron Muir
Chief Economist, BC Real Estate Association
David Saunders
Mayor, Municipality of Colwood

CHBA Members: $45 plus GST
Non-members: $60 plus GST

Call the CHBA-Victoria office at 250.383.5044 or email info@chbavictoria.com to reserve a seat.

The CHBA – Victoria office will be closed from Friday, December 18 – Monday January 4 to celebrate the holidays. All the best to you and your family during the holidays! See you in the New Year!

YOU CAN JOIN US TOO!!

BE AN EXHIBITOR AND/OR SPONSOR OF THE EVENT!

Our 2010 Home and Garden Show, February 19, 20, and 21, is guaranteed to be exciting! We have just secured Debbie Travis for two appearances during the weekend! This will be Debbie’s first time back to Victoria since 2004 - she was our most popular celebrity ever!!

We have created a Special Sponsorship Package for 2010. This sponsorship includes a $100 off booth space (on top of the $100 membership discount) and many promotional opportunities for only $2010.

CHBA’s Home and Garden Show is an excellent occasion to sponsor an event featuring a nationally recognized celebrity, and promote your business and projects during the important Spring housing market. 

There is still a good selection of booth space available as well.  As a member, you automatically receive a $100 discount per booth.   

All of the Home Show information is on our website, www.chbavictoria.com, just click on the Home Show logo and follow the links to the Exhibitor Information at the top.

Thank you for your consideration, and feel free to contact us for any additional information at info@chbavictoria.com or 250.383.5044.

Our Title Sponsor:

CHBA – Victoria has sponsored a tree at the 18th annual Festival of Trees supporting the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation! 

The theme of this year’s tree is “Construction Elves”! Our Festival of Trees committee, Margaret Dale, Evelyne Egli, Cheryl Neal and Robyn Normand, worked hard to make this year’s entry another winner!! Trees remain on display at the Fairmont Empress Hotel through the holidays until January 3, 2010. Take your family for a visit and vote for the CHBA – Victoria tree! 

It’s for the kids!!
 

CHBA – Victoria's membership is always growing! Out of a total of 186 members, there are 91 CHBA builders representing almost 50% of the membership and building the majority of projects in our region.    

Welcome our newest members:
Colonial Countertops Ltd. - Ian Duncan & Brian Kliman
Maximilian Huxley Building & Renovations - Maximilian Huxley
McKinstry Holdings Ltd. – Reena Parhar
Incredible Closets – Ted Hancock
Pondview Development Ltd. – Len Wansbrough
We Drywall Inc. – Patrick Morrison 

We thank you for your continued support!
Support CHBA and professional home building. Do Business with a CHBA Member!    

The following companies have cancelled their membership for 2009/2010:
All Victoria Vacuums; Aloyd Fitness Equipment Ltd.; Black Press Group; Blue Collar Construction Ltd.; Campbell Yates Construction; Cherry Hill Estates; Cottage Grove Contracting Ltd.; Estateway Property Development Ltd.; Garden City Painting Ltd.; HSBC Bank Canada; Mandalay Developments (Victoria) ltd.; MCM Excavating Inc.; Northwest Window & Door Co. Ltd.; Premier Closets Ltd.; R.W. Starck Contracting Ltd.; Shore Island Developments Ltd.; SignArt; Tedford Overhead Doors & Gates; TELUS Communications Company; Three Point Properties; Victoria Wood Studio; vivo eco-ventures Ltd.
 

 THE FUTURE IS HOME

67th National Conference - March 5 - 7, 2010
Victoria, BC

The springtime of a new era 

The 2010 CHBA National Conference in Victoria will deliver the critical business knowledge you need now.  

You’ll spend three days talking business with builders and industry partners from across Canada. You’ll get business sessions that focus on the transformation taking place in housing markets, and the opportunities this is creating. 

This Conference will be about one thing – opportunity! 

For program information visit www.chba.ca/conference/program.php.

Why not advertise your inventory of new homes for sale at no charge?  

To help you sell your homes, we have set up the New Homes for Sale page at ww.chbavictoria.com. Our CHBA-Victoria site gets 500 visitors per week – that’s 26,000 per year interested in homes by our professional home builders.  

We plan to make our CHBA site the “go to” web address for new home developments in our region, including marketing our New Homes for Sale page in CHBA’s weekly  Ask a Pro column in the Times Colonist. Check out Wednesday’s column featuring Bob Gill, CHBA President in the Homes section.  

New Homes for Sale is more value for your CHBA membership. No additional fees apply.  If you have new homes for sale, and they’re not on our page, contact Shelly at sportmann@chbavictoria.com or call the CHBA office so we can get them online. Check out the page once and awhile just to make sure your listing is still correct!