The South Okanagan marketplace offers diverse real estate opportunities. Blessed with a desert-like climate, it attracts vacationers, retirees and entrepreneurs in agriculture and business. Although the two major centers Osoyoos and Oliver are small towns by comparable standards, they expand to three times their size during the summer months. Vacationers and tourists flock to the many lakes, golf courses, fruit stands and wineries. Recreational properties, condominiums, waterfront homes, orchards and vineyards stimulate the real estate marketplace. The outlying areas of Rock Creek,