Western Investor staff

Industrial asset sales fall 59 per cent in Metro Vancouver as financing costs increase

Total commercial and industrial transactions in second quarter down 54 per cent year-to-year at $1.76B across B.C.’s Lower Mainland

Vancouver, gulp, is less green than Lethbridge or Guelph: survey

City ranked eighth as Canada’s greenest city, with Kelowna taking the top spot

Changing strata law to 55-plus not a blanket ban on young

Some B.C. strata corporations have changed or plan to change to a 55-plus age regulation to get around a new provincial law that stops a ban on condo rentals

Industrial leads downturn in Metro commercial sales

Q2 commercial property deals down 34 per cent, sales volume drops to $3.26 billion

Fraser Valley home prices up from last year as market ‘balances’

August sales were up from July and benchmark prices increased about 15 per cent compared to a year earlier

Student rental housing tower approved in New Westminster

Douglas College $295M, 20-storey, 368-bed facility will start construction in 2023

Detached-house sales-to-listing ratio slips below 12 per cent

Metro Vancouver July home sales drop 22.8 per cent from June as prices declined for the third straight month

City of Vancouver launching ‘user-friendly’ zoning by-law

Coming this November, the revised Zoning and Development By-law is meant make regulations simpler and more consistent

Land sales dominate commercial deals in Lower Mainland

Land transactions accounted for $2 billion, more than half of the total commercial real estate volume in the first-quarter 2022