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Toon orking
to increase the
recycling ratio

From page 33

Toyota is exploring other
possibilities as well, including
biotechnological studies to develop
new catalytic systems that will
purge carbon dioxide from 2x-

hausts,.and research to create new ~

traffic systems that will better ac-
commodate heavy traffic.

Another important environmen-
tal topic is reycling, and Toyota
displayed various components of a
car going through a recycling pro-
gram at the Toyota booth in the
trade fair. Ohashi said, ‘‘Conserv-

_ ing material resources and energy
makes environmental sense, as
well as economic sense. That
means recycling vehicles.”

According to snother source,
Toyota plans to use materials and
develop technologies that will

make ‘‘post-use’’ vehicles 85%
recyclable by weight by 1996.
Currently, about 75% of the ma-
tejal in automobiles gets recycled
in Japan.

Fortunately, Ohashi also feels
that all these environmentally
friendly efforts shouldn’t benefit
only developed nations. ‘‘I also
feel strongly that the progress we
achieve must be progress for all
nations. And we must share the
advances we achieve in en-
vironmental technologies with
people and industries in every na-
tion.”

If all automake.s have attitudes
like Toyota, and share
technologies with every nation,
perhaps the world in the next cen-
tury, will indeed become a more
harmonious place in which to live.

Vancouver registers
lowest percentage of
young home buyers

RELATIVELY HIGH
home prices continued to
keep many young buyers
*out of the Vancouver home
market in 1991, according
to the recent Royal LePage
Survey of Real Estate .Con-
sumers. -

In 1991, Vancouver had the
lowest portion of buyers aged
20-29 years old in Canada, at
13%. In contrast, the 1991 na-
tional average for this group was
21%. Consistent with the low por-
tion of young buyers, the city’s
first-time buyer rate, at 30%, tied
with Saskatoon’s for second
lowest in the country. First-time
buyers represented 34% of the na-
tional market.

‘*Even though prices have soft-
ened a little in the past year, Van-
couver’s average house price is
still the second highest in
Canada,”’ says Jerry Jackman,
Royal LePage senior vice-presi-
dent and divisional general man-
ager for Western Canada. ‘That
means young people have to save
for a longer time before they can
buy a home.”

However, Jackman believes
first-time buyers could represent a
higher proportion of the Van-
couver market in 1992,

**Many people believe that
prices and interest rates have bot-
tomed out. These factors, along
with the government's 5%
downpayment and RRSP loan

programs, should encourage more
first-time buyers.”

Jackman also points out that
Vancouver’s housing market
hasn’t been as volatile as many
others in Canada. ‘“‘As a result,
the proportion of the fi rst-time
buyers in the market has stayed

fairly constant for a number of.

years,”’ says Jackman.

Other findings in the Royal
LePage Survey of Real Estate
Consumers include:

@ Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina,
and Winnipeg all experienced
declines in the percentage of
first-time buyers, while Toronto,
Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax
registered increases. Both Van-
couver and Calgary saw no change
in first-time buyers’ portion of
the market;

@ the percentage of detached
homes sold in Vancouver during
1990, at 57%, was the nation’s
lowest, while condominium sales
represented 39% of the market,
the highest level in Canada. The
year saw a plentiful supply of
condos at affordable prices enter
the market;

@ Vancouver’s percentage of
single female buyers, at 53.2%,
was the highest in Canada.

The largest study of its kind,
The Royal LePage Survey of Real
Estate Consumers tracked 60,000
sales and purchases in 11 cities,
including more than 2,200 in
Vancouver. Statistics were com-
piled by the company’s residential
and real estate specialists.

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