Real Estate News

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.

The city of Port Moody can’t impose a requirement on developers of multi-unit housing projects to offer pre-sales first to residents of the city as part of rezoning applications — but it can try to get builders to voluntarily make such a commitment.

Port Coquitlam and Port Moody are among the region's hottest areas to invest in residential real estate, according to financial website MoneySense.

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.

Whether the region’s home prices are rising or falling is significantly to do with buyers’ spending power – more so than foreign buyers or market speculation, according to the lead data analyst for Vancouver real estate firm the Rennie Group.

The B.C. government is launching a review of the province’s two key real estate regulatory groups, in order to "make sure that British Columbians are effectively protected," finance minister Carole James announced April 18.

Rental units intended to help families, and low and middle-income seniors

Only five per cent of British Columbians think that taxing foreign buyers on real estate purchases has resulted in homes becoming more affordable, according to a survey released this week by real estate website Zoocasa.

Metro Vancouver’s sky-high real estate prices are pushing up the percentage of people renting their homes, with some age groups in the city overtaking even traditionally high-rental-rate Montréal, according to a new national study of 2016 Census data

British Columbia commercial real estate investment activity and dollar volume achieved record heights in 2017 with the disposition of 230 office, industrial and retail properties valued at $7.5 billion during the record-setting year.