Real Estate

The BC HOME Partnership Program (HPP), which offers first-time buyers a loan to help with their down payment, has had relatively little impact on condo and townhome prices, according to the findings of a recent report by the BC Real Estate Associatio

A national survey of what $500,000 buys in newly built condos was unable to find a single example in Vancouver proper – the only city in the survey to have zero stock of new units under $500K.

A public hearing for a 24-storey building whose unusual and innovative design features a series of “stacked boxes” at different orientations goes ahead Feb. 20. Each “box” in the proposed building at 400 West Georgia contains four storeys.

There will be new real estate speculation taxes and legislation cracking down on real estate tax evasion and money laundering in next week’s B.C. Budget, the B.C. government announced February 13.

One-third of Canadian baby-boomers – and more in Metro Vancouver – plan to give ‘living inheritances’ to their adult children specifically to help them buy real estate, a new survey has found.

You’d have to be pretty cool to live in a house like this (way cooler than us, that’s for sure) – and you’d have to have a pretty cool $22.88 million home-buying budget, too.

Bike silos, new roads, increased transit part of redevelopment plan

A 225-page report that involved 18 academics and a full-press push from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) staff has come up lame in suggestions on how to tamper high house prices in major Canadian cities.

Last fall, developer Landa Global proposed this 21-storey tower for Vancouver’s West End – and now local residents will have their say on the proposed building and its unusual housing mix.

A new B.C.