TheReview

Wednesday, October 9,1991 — A24

Real estate sales fall off

Real estate sales for September
are up from the same month last
year but down from August.

The Victoria Real Estate Board
says Multiple Listing Service sales
last month totaled 742, valued at
$127.8 mitlion.

This compares with 621 sales in
September 1990, and 768 in
August.

Board president Donna Curtis
said in a news release sales can be
expected to drop in the fall.

“The number of MLS sales
recorded in September is a lot
higher when compared with the
same period in 1990, which adds
both strength and credibility to the
Statement that the Greater Victoria

area 1S experiencing stable market
conditions,” she said.

September's MLS median price
of single family homes remained
unchanged from last month’s price
of $179,500.

The median price in September,
1990 was $155,000.

On the Peninsula in September,
the board reports 26 transactions
in Central Saanich valued at $5.8
million, for a median price of
$189,900.

In North Saanich, there were 24
transactions worth $5.9 million,
for a $245,000 median.

There were 20 sales in Sidney
valued at $3.4 million, for a
median of $163,000.

Local research gets funding

Three research and development
projects by Peninsula companies
were offered $204,000 in provin-
cial funding following a recent
Technology B.C. competition.

Richard Thomson and associ-
ates at BIT Sports will use their
$51,000 grant to continue develop-
ment work on a quick release
safety hamess for the global wind-
surfing market, according to B.C
Science Council news release.

The company will test prototype
engineering models in this stage of
development, to be followed by
pre-production design.

Seakem Oceanography was
given about $120,000 to design,
construct and test an automatic

Tax break given

Discards donated to Goodwill
Enterprises may now benefit the
giver with a tax-deductible
receipts.

Items of greater value, including
wooden furniture, upholstered fur-
niture, men’s and women’s suits in
like new condition, major appli-
ances less than five years old and
other items valued at $50 or more
singly or collectively may qualify
for tax receipts.

For information, call 655-3384.

sampler for organic micropollut-
ants.

The unit will be incorporated
into automatic, remote-controlled
measuring stations used in assess-
ing water quality in rivers, deltas
and coastal zones.

Stephen Cross and associates at
Espinoza Mariculture have been
offered about $33,000.

The company will use the grant
to identify the biological and phys-
ical-chemical factors that affect
growth and survival of the Japan-
ese scallop in a commercial pro-
duction setting.

The deadline for the next Tech-
nology B.C. competition is Nov. 1.

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