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Strong interest from buyers has resulted in a significant increase in sales activity in the Whistler marketplace during 2007. Every category of property and every geological area have seen an increase in terms of number of sales and the total value of sales, far surpassing the levels achieved in 2006. Median values for properties have also increased significantly on a year to year comparison.
We are experiencing a steady drop in the number of properties available for sale (to view available properties go to http://www.real-estate-whistler.com/listingsindex) and the expectation is we will continue to see this trend in the near term. Interest in Whistler should remain high as international awareness of the resort grows leading into the 2010 Winter Olympic…

Whistler’s most expensive home sale to date — worth $17.5 million — is in the works, providing further evidence of the confidence high-end home buyers have in the resort community and all it has to offer, two of the real-estate professionals involved in the deal said last week.

If the pending transaction for the home at 6715 Crabapple Drive in Whistler Cay is completed, it would eclipse the previous high of $13.3 million paid for a home in Sunridge a year ago. Before that the largest single transaction for a Whistler home was the $11.2 million paid for a large home on Falcon Crescent in Blueberry in May 2005.

Pat Kelly, president of Whistler Real Estate Co. (WREC), which is representing the buyer in the Crabapple Drive transaction, said the prospective…