Vancouver is already the second least affordable market on the planet (next to Hong Kong) with housing prices average 11+ times household income.While it is likely the market in Vancouver will not post the year-over-year price increases in 2015 that it did in 2014, the reality is that prices need to start declining (or incomes increasing dramatically) to avert a housing crises.Over here on the other end of the country, you can thank the Maritimes for holding the Canadian housing price average to just 5.7 times household income.  

Jimmy Hong Both Round Rock and Leander (Cedar Park) ISDs are good school districts and sought after by families.

There are definitely challenges to managing a remote real estate portfolio though, but I know a guy who lives in Hong Kong but owns a dozen SFHs in Atlanta and runs them well so it's possible!

Look at Vancouver B/C same dynamic happened there when the Hong Kong lease expired in 1997  huge influx and the accompanying huge run up in values. 

Kenneth Hong I have one through unify federal credit union that is at 4.25 interest only, with a lock option of 2.99 for 5yrs repayment, 5.5 10, 5.75 15.

I have been following this trend from the first time I went skiing at whistler in 1985 and rode up the chair lift with a young couple who said the hong kong Chinese were causing prices to go up and they were going to wait for the prices to come down..

Prices may increase at rates “close to†Zimbabwe’s gains, Faber said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong.

@Upen Patel, Account Closed , I am a British national living in Hong Kong.

@Samantha Smalpage We are based in Hong Kong and Shanghai and most investors that we see are Asian.

The home does NOT have a pool.Jimmy Hong - I would like to be my own property manager -- but I dont know how to screen a tenant?