Woodland Creek, Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia - Totangi Properties

Woodland Creek named a finalist for CHBA awards, both provincial (Georgie) and national (SAM)

December 14, 2011, Sooke, BC – Woodland Creek, an eco-conscious development project located in Sooke, BC, has received high marks from both the provincial and national branches of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association(CHBA), having been named a finalist for a Georgie and a SAM – awards that celebrate homebuilding excellence.

Winners of the 2011 CHBA National SAM Awards will be announced on Mar. 17, 2012 in Mont-Tremblant, QC. As… read more

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ReLocation Vacation – Travel to Sooke, buy a home, earn some dough!

Looking to relocate to a small town? Want to downsize and pocket the different in your housing equity? Want to get more for your housing dollar? Or are you just ready to get out of the big city and slow down your pace?

The small town of Sooke BC (located just a 35-minute drive from downtown Victoria) is so charming, and down right hospitable, that we want to… read more

A combination of online and offline ingenuity has won Woodland Creek, an Earth-friendly development project in Sooke, BC, a gold award at the 2011 Construction Achievements and Renovations of Excellence (CARE) event.

“Earning the gold award for Best Website by CARE, an association that recognizes homebuilding excellence on Vancouver Island, is a top honour,” said Blair Robertson, co-owner of Totangi Properties Ltd., the developer behind Woodland Creek. “This achievement is one we proudly share with our talented graphic designer and website creator, Rebecca Gerein… read more

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We love summer in Sooke – -  now that it’s here.  With West Coast beaches, fishing, whale watching, kayaking, hiking, and fine food at your doorstep the charming town of Sooke, British Columbia offers a lot. So over the next month I will blog about what I think are some ‘cool things’ to do in Sooke and with our partners in the Sooke community create some neat offers to get you out to experience some real Sooke fun.

We also think it’s cool that… read more

Boy, do we have a contest for you.

For art lovers, the arrival of summer means more than 80 SPF, barbeques and board shorts – it’s a season chockfull of art shows, festivals and celebrations!

And to kick off this season of art appreciation, our team here at Woodland Creek is holding three separate contests with awesome prizes that’ll make art lovers of degrees weak at the knees.

From winning tickets to preview the Sooke Fine Arts Show to an overnight Sooke grand… read more

The latest phase at Woodland Creek, on Callumwood Lane, is the first neighbourhood in Sooke to offer energy-saving, geothermal heating, cooling and hot water – technology that can reduce each home’s annual CO2 emissions by 2.5 to 5 tonnes (equivalent to the planting of one acre of trees per year).

Local TV station Shaw TV came out to a demonstration of the drilling and installation of the ground works for the geothermal program at Woodland Creek. View the video here. Shaw TV News Video of… read more

From breaking out the hooks, lines and sinkers to strapping on a lifejacket and exploring the Pacific Ocean’s whales, Sooke, BC has just about everything you want when it comes to adventuring.

I’ve counted down my Top Four Sooke adventures below (it’s really my wife’s Top Four, as she loves to get me out of the house). And there’s always room for more. Let me know some of your faves: post me a comment here on this blog, or on the Woodland Creek… read more

It’s no surprise to see the Vancouver Sun feature a story from time to time on one of Sooke’s awesome restaurants or the fabulous west coast beachcoming or the world famous fishing . But last weekend in the June 11 weekend paper we were thrilled to see Vancouver Sun reporter Suzanne Morphet write about the “Hot and Cool” things happening at our development in Sooke.

The article is entitled “Keeping it hot – and cool – at Woodland Creek” and it provides a great… read more

As far as social media goes, it’s safe to say I’m a newbie – and I’m OK with that. When Dad first started Totangi Properties more than 40 years ago, he operated under the motto of “take your time, but do it right.”

(This is something he also instilled in me at an early age: first, in my teens when I did a sloppy job of washing the car in order to get an allowance advance; later, when he turned his family land… read more