Real Estate News & Articles

2016-07-13

other You must have heard of that wise saying: 'Don’t put all your eggs in one basket !'  Wise and successful entrepreneurs know that diversifying their revenue sources by expanding into different markets will ensure the hea…

2016-07-13

Justin da Rosa Canadian Real Estate Wealth The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation released information on foreign ownership in Montréal in a bid to address “data gaps.” Foreigners own 1.3% of homes in Montreal and 4.…

2016-07-13

Katia Dmitrieva Mortgage Broker News Home prices across Canada are set to jump this year as interest rates are kept  near record lows by economic uncertainty from the U.K. referendum to leave the European Union, according to brokerage …

2016-07-12

Matt Robinson & Glen Schaefer The Province Housing starts in B.C. are way up in the first six months of this year while the bulk of the country is flat or falling. That trend appears in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporatio…

2016-07-12

Cassidy Olivier The Province The City of Vancouver is one step closer to introducing a vacancy tax that will target homes and condos that sit empty for the majority of the year after the provincial government on Monday committed to int…

2016-07-11

Steve Randall Canadian Real Estate Wealth Fund manager David LePoidevin says the Vancouver real estate market may already be crashing. The boss of the LePoidevin Group believes that his fund’s strategy of shorting some banks and non-b…

2016-07-10

?THEY THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BACK DOWN and LEAVE? John Colebourn The Province Jack Gates in his room at the Regent Hotel in the Downtown Eastside, where he complained last November about the lack of heating and hot water. MARK VAN MANEN/PNG…

2016-07-09

Multi-level Lake Club adds to appeal of Okanagan development Michael Bernard The Vancouver Sun Project:  Lakestone Project location:  9295 Okanagan Centre Road West, Lake Country Project size:  Fully serviced lots on 550 acre…

2016-07-09

Concord goes green in Brentwood 4756 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby Michael Bernard The Vancouver Sun Project: Concord Brentwood Project location:   4756 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby Project size/scope: A total of 10 highrise towers, betw…

2016-07-09

Bethany Lindsay The Vancouver Sun The end of another month means one thing in real estate-mad Vancouver: word that housing prices have hit another jaw-dropping high. But behind the figures for June are some statistics that co…

2016-07-09

Pete McMartin The Vancouver Sun To the surprise of no one, certainly not to me, the provincial government’s unveiling of foreign ownership data in Metro Vancouver’s housing market was widely panned by critics as being useless, m…

2016-07-08

The Province Airbnb rentals can average anywhere from $39 up to $144 per night for simple or more luxurious accommodations Airbnb, the global, online short-term rental booking service, has released a new report on its Vancouv…

2016-07-08

Foreign nationals account for 5% of Metro Vancouver purchases JOANNE LEE-YOUNG AND ROB SHAW The Province Critics slammed the B.C. government’s new data that foreign buyers account for five per cent of Metro Vancouver home sales, sayin…

2016-07-08

?Higher price spectrums? seeing ?unrelenting? demand: Sotheby?s DERRICK PENNER The Vancouver Sun A cool $1 million might still buy you a posh place in Montreal, but when the benchmark price for a singlefamily home on Vancouver’s leafy…

2016-07-07

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2016-07-07

Condo Smarts: Failure to file bylaw changes causes ? Tony Gioventu The Province Dear Tony: As the new president of our strata council, one of my tasks was to get a handle on our bylaws so everyone could understand what was in effect and wha…

2016-07-07

SIMPLE LIFE: More privacy than a condo and no grass to mow attracts buyers to Intracorp townhomes ? Mary Frances Hill The Province What: The Intracorp Townhome Collection. Where: 218-282 W. 62nd Ave.; 74307488 Granville St; Granville St &am…

2016-07-07

6 factors driving Chinese towards Japan real estate Juwai other What’s more, those 5 million Chinese travellers splurged $13.4 billion while in Japan during that period of time, accounting for 41% of total tourist spending in Japan. C…

2016-07-06

Nick Eagland The Province A sold home is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. The benchmark price for a Greater Vancouver home is now $917,800 ? up 32.1 per cent from a year ago. Photo by JONATHAN HAYWARD Metro Vancouver&rs…

2016-07-06

HOT HOUSING MARKET: Home Inspectors Association of B.C. raises concern over lack of due diligence Joanne Lee-Young The Province Home inspector Vince Burnett has been in the industry for 17 years and thrived in other red-hot real estate mark…

2016-07-06

Steve Randall REP Vancouver home sales continue to set new highs and 2016 can now add the highest-ever sales figure for June to the records. There were 4,400 sales in metro Vancouver, up 0.6 per cent from a year earlier and 28.1 per cent ab…

2016-07-05

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2016-07-05

June's transactions up only slightly over last year ? but still the most June sales on record, as prices continued to soar, reports board Joannah Connolly REW The pace of growth in Greater Vancouver resale activity slowed considerably in Ju…

2016-07-05

Fraser Valley real estate transactions show less of an early-summer cool-off than those in Greater Vancouver, and home prices just keep on rising Joannah Connolly REW Abbotsford Fraser Valley June’s real estate sales in the Fraser Val…