Real Estate News

Cohousing conference takes place this weekend in Vancouver

Vancouver- and Richmond-based architectural firm Haeccity Studio has won an open design competition seeking innovations to improve the supply of “missing middle” housing in Metro Vancouver.

Delta councillor, MLA Ian Paton says speculators snub Delta due to house size restrictions

Metro Vancouver’s housing market has been assessed as “highly vulnerable” for the eighth consecutive quarter by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

The average home square footage that “peak millennials” – currently 25-to-32-year-olds – can afford to buy is typically 12 per cent smaller in Greater Vancouver than it was a year ago, according to a Royal LePage survey released April 26.

Even with good intentions, appropriate funding and expedited permitting processes, there simply aren’t enough construction tradespeople to build all the homes required to meet B.C.'s housing targets, according to a group of industry experts.

A crackdown on non-payment of taxes on presale condo flips is one of three new housing measures announced by the finance minister April 24.

Considering the city's real estate development and speculation, you might think that some areas of Richmond would be among the region’s hottest areas to invest in real estate right now – but not according to financial website MoneySense.

A BC Supreme Court judge has concluded a buyer who backed out of a deal to buy a $6.5 million mansion in West Vancouver was entitled to do so because a British Pacific Properties restrictive covenant significantly impacted potential uses.

If living on your own island seems idyllic but a bit inconvenient, perhaps the perfect compromise would be your own peninsula, surrounded by private beaches and rocky shoreline.