Real Estate News

More than seven in 10 Canadian first-time home buyers (71 per cent) are afraid that they’ll be hit by unanticipated costs during the process, according to a new survey by TD Bank.

2601 Lonsdale gets 4-3 vote, 151 E. Keith defeated 4-3

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.

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.

West Vancouver council has shunted a vote on a major tower application for Marine Drive. Council was set to vote on first reading of a rezoning that would have allowed Darwin Properties to build a 26-storey tower and four townhouses at 303 Marine Dr.

Nearly four years after council granted its approval, the Grouse Inn highrises can finally be built, following District of North Vancouver council’s approval of a development permit April 16.

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.

You might think some parts of the North Shore would be included the region’s hottest areas to invest in real estate right now – but not according to financial website MoneySense.