Welcome, December.

Are you ready to wrap up 2023? We hope this finds you and yours happy and healthy. As expected the market moves with a different rhythm in December. The pace slows a bit, and we look forward to some time to reflect over what the past year has looked like.

Scroll down to check out what's happening in real estate and our local communities as well as our regular features. It is of note that the Association of Interior Realtors launched a new Portal site and work is still in progress on this technology. We also notice some differences in the way the statistics are generated and it may take some time to establish new baselines.

Talk soon,

Chris, Patric, Julie, Jasmine, Kristie & Brell

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Nickel Plate is silver-plated for the cross-country ski season

On Oct. 1, volunteers with the Nickel Plate Nordic Club cut, split and loaded firewood, stained the daylodge exterior, scrubbed the daylodge floor, deep-cleaned bathrooms, installed flooring in the rental shed, painted and repaired various areas, brushed the trails and even rerouted the Bonanza snowshoe trail.

Located a scenic 40 minutes west of Penticton, the club was established in 1989 and has 56 kilometres of cross-country ski trails and 26 kilometres of maintained snowshoe trails.

Now, an update on cross-country and downhill openings in the Southern Interior... as of November 26th.

SilverStar launched its cross-country ski season Nov. 23. "As for Alpine, while it looks like winter on the slopes right now, we will need Mother Nature to come through with a big storm to be able to get alpine skiing operational for our opening on Nov. 30," said Ian Jenkins, director of sales, marketing and events.

"While only a small amount of snow is in the immediate forecast, we remain hopeful that this will happen, and when it does we will be ready to open."

Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre was the first to officially open the cross-country season on Nov. 15.

Sun Peaks Resort officially opened Nov. 18. Big White Ski Resort's opening hs been delayed to Nov. 30. Apex Mountain Resort will open Dec. 9 and Baldy Mountain Resort will open Dec. 15. Telemark Nordic Centre and the Kelowna Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club have not yet announced opening dates.

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