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Co-working company partners with hotels to free up work space
Hoteling co-workers Hoteling office workers first took hold in the 1990s, but with major co-working space providers such as WeWork Cos. Inc. gobbling up traditional office space, Vancouver...
Mortgage stress test to blame for last year’s 25% drop in home sales, says BCREA
Meanwhile, data shows average prices in December also declined across the province
Thirty-one storey office tower proposed for downtown Vancouver
Application filed for architecturally striking building to replace 15-storey tower in Coal Harbour
Vancouver home prices drop during Q4 amid ‘significant reduction’ in sales
The city's price declines come amid rising prices in region and nation
Rising multi-family assessments could trigger higher rents across B.C.
Landlord group says increased property taxes will force apartment building owners to raise rents or spend less on building maintenance
Metro Vancouver new home sales down 19% in 2018, will fall more: report
Consumers increasingly less willing to pay for higher-priced units in new developments, says Altus Group
B.C. commercial building permits break record
Statistics Canada data for November show the province issued the highest value of commercial building permits on record
Property taxes floor Burnaby tile maker
On January 8, less than a week after receiving the assessment notice for his 41-year-old tile manufacturing business in Burnaby, Kim Hauner called his 100 staff members together to break the bad...
$4m-plus home sales in Vancouver down by half in 2018: Sotheby’s
Sales of Vancouver homes over $4 million plummeted in 2018 by 49 per cent year over, according to a report by Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, released January 9. The luxury real estate...
Metro task force to target Lower Mainland industrial crunch
Task force revamped A new Metro Vancouver industrial lands strategy task force was appointed in December, setting the stage for members to begin work in earnest under chairman George Harvie of...