Real Estate News & Articles

Connaught 3230 Connaught Crescent at Edgemont Village North Vancouver 23 townhomes and 59 condos by Grosvenor Developments

2016-11-24

Connaught to take its place in North Vancouver?s charming Edgemont Village Mary Frances Hill The Province Connaught Project: Connaught Where: 3230 Connaught Cr., Edgemont Village, North Van What: 23 townhouses and 59 apartments Residence si…

What happens when there is a fire before the property completes

2016-11-24

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES Jennifer Clee other What happens when a property is damaged by fire before completion? Must the buyer complete or can the buyer walk? What if the buyer wants to complete with a price adjustment? A buyer's options will …

What happens when there is a fire before the property completes

2016-11-24

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES Jennifer Clee other What happens when a property is damaged by fire before completion? Must the buyer complete or can the buyer walk? What if the buyer wants to complete with a price adjustment? A buyer's options will …

Fifth Dimension - A comprehensive analysis of the multifamily real estate market in Metro Vancouver

2016-11-23

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On B.C.'s farmland, mega-mansions and speculators reap the rewards of lucrative tax breaks

2016-11-23

Investors and speculators are taking prime agricultural land out of production ? and sometimes erecting palatial mega-mansions on the landscape ? as the B.C. government?s outdated tax system allows them to exploit incentives intended only f…

Google sees Montreal becoming an AI knowledge ?supercluster?

2016-11-22

MORGAN LOWRIE The Vancouver Sun Artificial intelligence, once relegated to the realm of science fiction, is now found in everything from translation services to virtual assistants to video games. And as companies race to develop self-drivin…

Technology IPOs poised for liftoff after early stumbles : real estate data company Real Matters Inc

2016-11-21

GERRIT DE VYNCK AND SCOTT DEVEAU The Vancouver Sun Vancouver?s high-tech sector is set to cash in on Canada?s public listing boom, industry watchers say. It?s been a long and rocky road for companies such as Hootsuite to get this far. THE C…

Five things that have altered our understanding of the real estate market

2016-11-21

Michael Mata Mortgage Broker News Just six months ago, many Canadians were sure they understood the housing market. Calgary was suffering under the weight of low oil prices, historically-low borrowing costs were displaying no signs of movin…

Victoria moves swiftly on housing fund

2016-11-19

Nearly all of $500M earmarked for affordable suites has been allocated ROB SHAW The Vancouver Sun The B.C. government has already committed almost all of the money from a $500-million fund for affordable housing projects that Premier Christ…

Plan for giant buildings in Chinatown comes under fire

2016-11-19

Proposal to allow structures up to 200 feet wide ?comes out of the blue? John Mackie The Vancouver Sun Chinatown has traditionally been a low-rise neighbourhood of small stores on 25-foot lots. But heritage activists fear much of the histor…

The Columbia at Brewery District 285 Nelson's Court New Westminster 242 homes in a 26-storey tower by Wesgroup Properties

2016-11-19

The Columbia boosts residential stock at the Brewery District KATHLEEN FREIMOND The Vancouver Sun The Brewery District in New Westminster is a project from Wesgroup Properties made up of four commercial buildings and four residential towers…

Brookfield offers $1.8B to acquire TerraForm

2016-11-19

Toronto-based asset manager makes play for owner of clean-power assets SCOTT DEVEAU AND BRIAN ECKHOUSE The Vancouver Sun Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada’s largest alternative asset manager, said it’s prepared to offer U…

Specialists worldwide race to make diagnosis

2016-11-18

GLEN SCHAEFER The Vancouver Sun “It’s been a hard 24 hours,” John Nightingale, the aquarium’s president, told a news conference Thursday afternoon. “In the 30 years I’ve worked in aquariums, never has the…

Money-laundering watchdog cites 'significant' deficiencies at 100-plus B.C. real estate firms

2016-11-18

'Deficiencies' in real estate sector: agency DAN FUMANO The Vancouver Sun Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog found “significant” or “very significant” levels of non-compliance at more than half of the…

A step-by-step guide for managing strata improvements

2016-11-17

Tony Gioventu The Province Dear Tony: Our strata council presented two resolutions at our AGM last week to approve $100,000 for a new roof and $68,000 for balcony membranes. They included these as a majority vote because they were recommend…

Station Square sells 700 homes in 30 days

2016-11-17

Master-planned community from Anthem Properties and Beedie Living a walkable, amenity-rich neighbourhood ROBIN BRUNET The Province STATION SQUARE Status: now selling Year acquired: 2004 Year developed: ongoing  Site size: 12 acres Numb…

Vancouver is first Canadian city to tax empty homes

2016-11-17

Matt Robinson The Province Vancouver has become the first city in Canada to implement a tax on empty homes. Based on the diverse opinions city councillors heard Wednesday before voting in favour of the one-per-cent annual tax, it&rsquo…

Lawyer with missing trust fund money says she will repay all clients

2016-11-16

Lawyer says she?ll repay clients for losses related to alleged trust-fund theft SAM COOPER The Vancouver Sun Richmond real estate lawyer Hong Guo says she is making efforts to pay back clients who are facing major losses after $7.5 million …

City council divided over proposed tax on empty homes

2016-11-16

Vancouver city council divided on proposed empty-homes tax Matt Robinson The Vancouver Sun Vancouver city councillors are deeply divided along party lines on the question of whether to approve Canada’s first tax on empty homes. A…

National home sales hit record in October

2016-11-16

New record set despite mortgage rule changes GARRY MARR The Vancouver Sun Canadian existing home sales reached a record level in October, data published Tuesday shows, but the market faces an increasing threat from tighter mortgage rules, w…

BC Housing Demand Remains Mixed in October

2016-11-15

BCREA other The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that 7,272 residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in October, down 16.7 per cent from the same month last year. Total sal…

National sales up in October

2016-11-15

Justin da Rosa REP This is how the new mortgage rules have impacted housing markets across the country. “First-time home buyers looking to get into the market before having to face tougher mortgage eligibility criteria had only two we…

Royal Bank of Canada to increase fixed mortgage rates as of Thursday

2016-11-15

REP Royal Bank (TSX:RY) is hiking mortgage rates and making it more expensive for homebuyers who want to take more than 25 years to pay back their loan. The bank is raising its special offer for a five-year fixed rate mortgage to 2.94 per c…

Vancouver's last Inner Harbour marina space goes on market

2016-11-15

Vancouver?s Last Inner Harbour Marina Goes on Market Chuck Chiang The Vancouver Sun The bustling Vancouver waterfront may soon see even more boating activity, as one of the city’s last remaining water lots dedicated to marina usa…