Real Estate News

Nearly $3 billion of Metro Vancouver purpose-built rental properties exchanged hands last year, finds report

The owners of the Columbia Theatre are prepared to invest several hundred thousand dollars into a feasibility study to assess the possibility of building a hotel and residential tower above the heritage theatre.

Homeowners across Metro Vancouver will soon be getting notices saying they have to register with the province as resident homeowners or qualify for an exemption or face paying B.C.’s new (and newly named) speculation and vacancy tax.

Councillor Jean Swanson says rents will keep rising unless vacancy control and rent freezes are implemented

“Speculators” were always going to hate the speculation tax, that’s pretty much a given. What the provincial government has managed to do this week is annoy a good part of the vast majority of homeowners who would never be considered speculators.

“Speculators” were always going to hate the speculation tax, that’s pretty much a given. What the provincial government has managed to do this week is annoy a good part of the vast majority of homeowners who would never be considered speculators.

Burnaby South byelection candidate says housing is the top issue

The Royal Towers Hotel may have been a happening place in its heyday, but a new plan is in play for the prominent site.

Another B.C. civil forfeiture law suit has revealed allegations involving the illegal drug trade and real estate deals

Sydney moves down to third place in Demographia rankings as Australian home prices drop; Hong Kong remains least affordable