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I saw this on the news too:

Over 50 line-up to buy condo on Vancouver's waterfront

Thursday, October 25 - 09:50:00 AM
Tamara Slobogean

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - This is what condo buying has come to in Vancouver. You won't move into your new abode at 'Millennium Water' in the Athletes Village for three years but you can buy one today. Outside the presentation centre at West 2nd and Cook, some buyers have been camped out for days.

60 lawn chairs sit in the line-up, and just about everyone has a business card pinned to it, and most seem to belong to realtors. But there are very few actual bodies there, and that seems to be causing a little tension. One man shivering out there since 10 last night says they're not playing fair. He says there are unwritten rules that if you're going to be in the line-up, you don't leave the chair and go home and then come back in the morning nice and fresh.

Up for grabs today are about 200 units and a project billed as Vancouver's last waterfront community. Prices start at $600,000 and go well beyond $3 million. Part of the buzz around this project is that it will first house Olympic athletes in 2010 but today, it seems to be all about the real estate.