VANCOUVER - When condo marketer Cameron McNeill stood to make a speech at his company’s Christmas party, he presided over an upbeat crowd of developers, realtors and industry insiders.
Dressed casually in a Hawaiian shirt, wearing a lei for the Polynesian-themed soiree at Chill Winston in Gastown, McNeill remarked that the brisk sales and project launches that have marked the end of this year are a long way from the dark days of last December.
A year ago, developers were putting projects on ice, and sales in Metro Vancouver’s resale housing market dropped to 924 transactions in December, half of what they were in December 2007.
