Real Estate
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South Okanagan cannabis production site sold for $20 million
The 114-acre property was purchased for $7 million just last year
Vancouver office building managers’ response to homeless people has shifted
There remains a lot of ground to cover in the two years left of Vancouver’s strategic plan to end street homelessness by 2021. Last year, the City of Vancouver counted 659 residents living on the...
Taxes boost cost of parking as commuter vehicle options expand
Who needs a garage? Digging through the family recipe box is illuminating. There might be the recipe the local schoolmarm gave your grandmother for date pudding or one clipped from Homemaker’s...
‘Living building’ could be Canada’s greenest home
Architect estimates net-zero house will generate five times more energy than it uses
Commercial real estate sales plunge in Lower Mainland compared with a year ago: REBGV
Lower Mainland land transactions see the steepest year-over-year decline, while total value of office and retail deals drops 72.6 per cent
Home prices and sales across province to recover in 2020: forecast
Average sale price decline seen in 2019 will flatten or even reverse in some areas next year, predicts B.C. Real Estate Association
Richmond mall to transform into 'village'
Shape Properties hopes to have shovels in the ground by early 2020 at Richmond Centre to start transforming it into a high-density, transit-oriented neighbourhood with homes, shops and...
B.C. home sales see slight uptick in May, still down year over year: BCREA
Average home price is 4.3 per cent lower than one year ago; annual price decline is flattening out
First-Time Home Buyer Incentive to launch in September: CMHC
Federal government also launching alternative shared-equity mortgage funding scheme
Close to half of Vancouver condos aren’t occupied by owners
Analysis by SFU’s Andy Yan looks at new Canadian housing statistics