Real Estate News & Articles

Scenery, climate driving foreign investment in Vancouver real estate

2014-04-15

Emma Crawford Hampel Other Home sales in the Greater Vancouver area have been healthy thus far this year, due in no small part to the city’s attractiveness to foreign investors and newcomers. Re/Max’s Spring Market Trends Report…

Details of Rize development revealed at open house

2014-04-14

Naoibh O'Connor Van. Courier More details about the mixed-use Rize complex planned for Kingsway and Broadway will be revealed at an open house Monday evening (April 14). City council approved the rezoning application for the project in Apri…

Paragon the preferred MLS® system replacement

2014-04-11

Other The Fraser Valley, Greater Vancouver and Edmonton real estate boards have commenced negotiations to replace our MLS® platforms ( MLXchange and Fusion) with a new system called Paragon. This approval is subject to successful…

Eight steps to smarter house hunting

2014-04-11

Rob Carrick Other Contrary to popular belief, home is not where the heart is. Home is where the head is - and if you don’t use your head when house-hunting you could find yourself wishing you’d never said “I do” to t…

Vancouver House 1412 Granville Street a 52 storey twisted building by Westbank

2014-04-10

Introducing the Beach District Martha Perkins Other t’s not often that a condo development gives us a new word. But Vancouver House doesn’t plan to be like any other condo development. The word is gwerk, as in “Vancouver h…

REBGV March 2014 Stats Package

2014-04-09

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Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary rated tops for real estate investment

2014-04-09

All 3 tops for ‘resilience’ and growth potential, says U.K. report Susan Pigg Other Toronto , Vancouver and Calgary have been ranked as the three best places out of 50 cities around the world in terms of where best to invest in …

Best Cities To Invest In Real Estate? Those Would Be Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary

2014-04-09

Daniel Tencer Other Canadian cities top the world for the real estate markets that make the best bet for long-term investment, according to a study from U.K. property developer Grosvenor -- but they may not be such a great investment in the…

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2014-04-09

FRANCES BULA Other Vancouver will never go back to being a beautiful but sleepy - and relatively inexpensive - town on the West Coast. It has become one of the new landing sites on the continent for global capital and immigrants, say expert…

Gastown development slowed by ‘hollow’ city incentives

2014-04-09

Glen Korstrom Other Developers who have restored historic Gastown buildings say City of Vancouver reluctance to honour past commitments has stalled area renewal. Century Group announced April 1 that it plans to build the first new office bu…

rice of average two-storey home in Vancouver jumps 3% to $1,148,473

2014-04-08

Peter Meiszner Other Home prices are up for all types of homes across Metro Vancouver, according to the latest survey by Royal LePage . The real estate company finds the average cost of a detached bungalow is up nearly five per cent to $1,0…

Real estate market turning the corner as Canadian home sellers come out of hibernation: Royal Lepage

2014-04-08

Garry Marr Other “Suggestions of an overheated real estate market and bubble continue within the mainstream dialogue, but are becoming less frequent,” said Phil Soper , chief executive of LePage , in a release. “Of the cor…

Canadian housing market faces crucial spring test

2014-04-08

Garry Marr Other New home construction plummeted in March, prompting at least one real estate doomsayer to predict an even larger decline is in the cards for the Canadian housing market. Capital Economics, which has been predicting a housin…

Capstone 129 West 2nd Street in Lower Lonsdale 71 units in a 6 storey building by Fairborne Homes

2014-04-07

Other Lower Lonsdale is one of the most popular neighbourhoods on the North Shore, with everything you could want at your doorstep from shopping to parks and recreation and transit. The community is almost complete with Fairborne ’s b…

Airbnb now has 550,000 listings and a market valuation of about $10-billion

2014-04-07

Airbnb users share tips … and the wealth Heather Long Other Airbnb may soon be worth more than all but three of America's  largest hotel chains . The website that lets you rent people's homes and apartments is reportedly finalizi…

Selling an entire strata building

2014-04-02

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$40 million mixed use commercial development in North Saanich

2014-04-02

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West Vancouver aims to expand tax base with commercial development

2014-04-02

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Metro Vancouver diversity strength of Canada's "busy and beautiful" gateway to Asia

2014-04-02

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dirt and air are now most valuable real esstate

2014-04-02

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Vancouver home sales rise in March from year ago, real estate board says

2014-04-02

Other Home sales in the Vancouver region picked up in March compared with a year ago, but were still well below the long-term average for the month, according to the city’s real estate board. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver…

Vancouver house sales, prices rise on below-average volume

2014-04-02

BRENT JANG Other Greater Vancouver housing sales climbed last month while prices rose, but market activity was slow in comparison with the 10-year average. There were 2,641 single-family detached homes, condos and townhouses that changed ha…

Aragon’s Glasshouse Lofts in Port Royal

2014-04-01

Other Every once in a while, a condominium development comes along that is so singular, so avant-garde that you can’t help but take notice. Such is the case with award-winning Aragon Properties’ GlassHouse Lofts. From the slidin…

Vancouver’s housing boom could head south along with Chinese rich

2014-03-28

The nixing of Ottawa’s immigrant visa scheme has led to concerns that wealthy individuals could inflate prices in US Massoud Hayoun Other A housing price boom in Vancouver fueled by the arrival of wealthy Chinese investors could be he…