Real Estate News

The most expensive condo on Canada’s MLS – and second-priciest home listing in the nation, after this $39.9 million West Vancouver house – was re-listed December 12 at an $8 million discount off its original January price.

Residents of Metro Vancouver do not have much faith in the integrity of the real estate industry, according to the results of a new Western Canadian poll on public perception of corruption.

The B.C. government’s Rental Housing Task Force is recommending changes to the Rental Tenancy Act to stop renovictions, but it’s rejected the idea of vacancy control — an idea renters favoured and landlords opposed.

Canadian authorities’ arrest of Chinese telecom executive Wanzhou Meng could depress Vancouver home prices, influential business journal Barron’s reported Dec. 10.

Should we build more or fewer housing units? Should we have more or fewer new housing units devoted exclusively to rentals? And has the time come for Canada to consider the possibility of banning non-citizens from buying real estate in the country?

B.C. homeowners will see overall “signs of moderation” in their upcoming property assessments, with some parts of the province seeing declines and others considerable increases, according to B.C. Assessment.

This Vancouver house might not look like much on the outside, but it’s a Mid-Century Modern home of architectural note, designed by Kenneth McKinley in 1955 and featured in home magazines in the late 1950s. It’s also part of an elite portfolio of global properties that will go to the highest bidder at an auction in Hong Kong on December 19.

October may have shown a slight uptick in Metro Vancouver home sales since September's dismal activity, but the latest statistics from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver show that transactions dropped again November.

Maybe you’ve already noticed it, or maybe you’ve already used it. There’s a large new park on the shore of False Creek, and it might be a world record holder.

Developer Wesgroup has revealed plans for a 49-storey tower at 1450 West Georgia Street in Vancouver’s chi-chi Coal Harbour neighbourhood to replace the aging Georgian Towers.