Vancouver again dominates list of Canada’s priciest neighbourhoods VANCOUVER, British Columbia A nationwide study conducted by CENTURY 21 Canada reveals that trends in real estate prices per square foot have been fickle for the last year – soft in some cities but stable in others, even varying from suburb-to-suburb in some cases. “This year’s annual
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Vancouver housing
Home Sales Cool in November; Moving Forward, Real Estate Unlikely to be as Strong a Source for Economic Growth As Previously
on December 15th, 2016
Vancouver, BC – This morning, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) released its national real estate statistics for November showing the largest monthly decline in activity since August 2012. The number of home re-sales now stands at its lowest level since September 2015. Activity was down on a month-over-month basis in about two-thirds of all
David Eby, Champion for Housing Affordability
on October 21st, 2016
A short while ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with David Eby, N.D.P., M.L.A and Housing Critic. David Eby is the hero of the middle and working classes. He is by no means, however, the enemy of the upper classes. From Ontario originally, a lawyer and the son of one, since living in B.C.,
Ready, Fire, Aim
on August 10th, 2016
It takes a certain skill set to try and fix a problem and possibly botch it up even more, but the B.C. government is certainly testing the idea as it flails about hoping to cool Vancouver’s red hot housing market. For months the government had been in denial over the issue: overblown, isolated to a
Red Tape Plays a Role in Vancouver Housing Price Inflation
on July 21st, 2015
Why Vancouver housing is so unaffordable As rising housing costs in Metro Vancouver continue to make headlines, municipal policy-makers, including Vancouver’s mayor, point to a number of potential causes, including absentee owners and home-flippers-people who buy and promptly resell property for short-term returns. In a recent letter to B.C.’s premier, the mayor also called on
