Real Estate News & Articles

Vancouver home sales drop in February

2017-03-02

Canadian Real Estate Wealth Home sales across Metro Vancouver were down dramatically last month compared with last year's record-breaking pace, while prices across the region remained more stable. The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board say…

Housing options coming to single-family neighbourhoods

2017-03-02

Vancouver looks to increase number of townhomes, row houses, duplexes Mike Howell Vancouver Courier Mayor Gregor Robertson announced Wednesday that changes will be coming to single-family home neighbourhoods in Vancouver to accommodate more…

Problematic for strata to impose alteration agreements retroactively

2017-03-02

New ownership leaves repairs in limbo Tony Gioventu The Province Dear Tony: Our strata corporation is 164 units, mixed-use highrise, townhouse and commercial. Over the past 15 years, a number of strata lots of all three types have made some…

Horseshoe Bay 158 condos at 6409 Bay Street West Vancouver by developer Westbank

2017-03-02

Westbank?s Horseshoe Bay community of condominiums attracts locals, downsizers Mary Frances Hill The Province Horseshoe Bay Address: Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver What: 158 condos and townhomes in six buildings on the waterfront at Horsehow…

Vancouver's historic downtown Rosewood Hotel Georgia to be sold for $145 million

2017-03-02

Rosewood Hotel Georgia to be sold for $145 million Joanne Lee-Young The Province A deal has been struck to sell one of the city’s oldest hotels. The Rosewood Hotel Georgia in downtown Vancouver has been around since 1927. For years, i…

Greater Vancouver condo prices rise despite tumbling sales

2017-03-02

Brent Jang The Globe and Mail Prices for condos and townhomes are climbing in Greater Vancouver, despite tumbling sales. Sales of detached houses, condos and townhomes fell to 2,425 transactions last month, down 41.9 per cent when compared …

Mega-mansions on Richmond farmland spur huge concerns

2017-03-02

Super-sized Richmond farmhouses have 'gotten out of hand' Kent Spencer The Vancouver Sun Perfectly legal farmhouses as large as 22,000 square feet are cropping up on Richmond farmland, among the largest homes allowed in Metro Vancouver. But…

BoC holds rates amid 'economic slack'

2017-03-02

DREW HASSELBACK The Vancouver Sun The Bank of Canada is holding its benchmark overnight interest rate at 0.5 per cent as it says Canada faces “persistent economic slack.” The decision to hold rates was hardly a surprise. Ahead o…

Canada could be losing $1.3B in online sales taxes

2017-03-02

HOLLIE SHAW The Vancouver Sun Canada is losing more than a billion dollars a year in overlooked taxes and duties on goods that Canadian consumers buy online from foreign retailers, according to a new study. The analysis from Copenhagen Econ…

Millennials really want to buy but face barriers says HSBC

2017-03-01

Steve Randall REP An overwhelming majority of millennials want to buy their own home with 83 per cent telling an HSBC survey that they intend to do so in the next 5 years. But the barriers to becoming a first-time buyer include slow wage gr…

Bank of Canada Interest Rate Announcement

2017-03-01

other The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is holding the target for its overnight rate at 0.5 per cent. In the press release accompanying the decision, the Bank noted that growth in the economy is improving and recent higher C…

Bank of Canada Interest Rate Announcement - March 1, 2017

2017-03-01

Andy Blatchford REP The Bank of Canada is holding its trend-setting interest rate at 0.5 per cent but it's keeping a watchful eye on "significant uncertainties'' that it warns could alter the economy's improving trajectory. The central bank…

Is This The Future Of Real Estate Marketing?

2017-03-01

R.L. Adams other While traditional forms of marketing real estate fizzle out, a new era of digital marketing has dawned. Thanks to the global connectivity of the internet, people no longer have to turn to traditional media to market a home …

Meet the Victoria tech firm that helped sway Brexit

2017-02-28

Leave campaign spent $5.7 million with AggregateIQ to separate from EU RANDY SHORE The Vancouver Sun A small technology company in Victoria is being credited with helping Britain’s Vote Leave campaign secure an unlikely win in the Bre…

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2017-02-27

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The Civil Resolution Tribunal: Opening a Pandora?s Box of Strata Disputes?

2017-02-27

A world-first online dispute-resolution forum for BC strata owners is revolutionary but will cause certain headaches Oscar Miklos Haddock & Company REW In July 2016, the long-awaited Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) opened its doors to the f…

The Civil Resolution Tribunal: Opening a Pandora?s Box of Strata Disputes?

2017-02-27

A world-first online dispute-resolution forum for BC strata owners is revolutionary but will cause certain headaches Oscar Miklos Haddock & Company REW In July 2016, the long-awaited Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) opened its doors to the f…

Kindred 600 East 3rd Street North Vancouver 96 homes by Fairborne Homes

2017-02-25

Fairborne Homes launches second phase of 96-home development in North Vancouver Simon Briault The Vancouver Sun Kindred Project location: 600 Block East 3rd Street, North Vancouver Project size: 96 homes, 617 to 1,108 square feet; priced fr…

RBC CEO says Toronto real estate market ?not sustainable,? company posts record net income

2017-02-25

RBC considers housing moves for Toronto area Armina Ligaya The Vancouver Sun The CEO of Canada’s largest bank says it is time to consider bringing measures that cooled Vancouver’s sizzling housing market to Toronto. Dave McKay, …

Trump hotel at 1151 West Georgia Street Vancouver is akin to other luxury choices

2017-02-25

Trumping the luxury hotels in Vancouver John Mackie The Vancouver Sun Vancouver’s new Trump International Hotel comes with the hype we’ve come to expect from The Donald. “Trump International Hotel and Tower will be the ico…

Metro Christian leaders reject Franklin Graham?s crusade

2017-02-25

U.S. evangelist?s ?confrontational? stance may incite hostility, clerics say in letter DOUGLAS TODD The Vancouver Sun A leadership group representing more than half of Metro Vancouver’s one million Christians issued a public letter on…

How Costco Canada paradoxically breaks all the Retail 101 rules to win

2017-02-25

INSIDE THE BIG-BOX HOLLIE SHAW The Vancouver Sun Not far from a table stacked high with men’s blue jeans at one of Canada’s busiest Costco Wholesale Corp. stores is a standalone display for the InstaShiatsu, a cordless neck and …

Liberals pursue density at transit hubs as answer to the housing crunch

2017-02-25

Liberals believe more density the answer to housing crunch Mike Smyth The Province The Metro Vancouver housing affordability crunch was one of the biggest B.C. news stories of 2016 and triggered Premier Christy Clark’s most dramatic p…