Real estate board reports Metro Vancouver home sales down sharply
CTV News–Oct. 2, 2018
VANCOUVER — The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board says home sales across the region in September plunged more than 40 per cent compared with the …
UBS Ranks Toronto and Vancouver In Top 5 Global Real Estate Bubbles
Better Dwelling–Sep. 28, 2018
Toronto and Vancouver real estate are two of the world’s most bubbly markets, according to a Swiss mega bank. UBS analysts updated their Bubble Index, with …
Home ownership ‘for the rich only’ in Metro Vancouver: RBC
Business in Vancouver–Sep. 28, 2018
Housing affordability has fallen to “never-seen-before” levels in Vancouver, … Metro Vancouver residents on average would have to devote 88.4% of their …
Canada’s housing affordability has reached the worst level in 28 years …
CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News–Sep. 28, 2018
CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News–Sep. 28, 2018
Toronto’s real estate more of a bubble than Metro Vancouver’s: UBS
Vancouver Courier–Sep. 28, 2018
For years it may have been perceived as the other way round, but the real estatemarket in Metro Vancouver is currently in less extreme bubble territory than …
This Week’s Top Stories: Toronto and Vancouver Real Estate Top The …
Better Dwelling–Sep. 30, 2018
Toronto and Vancouver real estate markets are two Canada’s fastest cooling markets. Vancouver’s SNLR fell to 52.8%, down 18.01% from the same month last …
Canada At Risk As ‘First Cracks’ Appear In Global Housing Bubbles …
Local Source–HuffPost Canada–Sep. 29, 2018
Local Source–HuffPost Canada–Sep. 29, 2018
Vancouver’s real estate bubble the fourth-most inflated in the world
Vancouver Is Awesome–Oct. 1, 2018
Toronto’s real estate market is more of a bubble than Metro Vancouver’s, but Vancouver is still the fourth most-inflated globally, and has seen world’s third …
Surrey has become Metro Vancouver’s favoured real estate …
Vancouver Is Awesome–Oct. 4, 2018
Surrey is the fastest-growing metro centre in B.C., and its young population – 22 per cent of B.C. births are now in Surrey – is gunning to claim the title of the …
Fraser Valley becomes favoured investment destination as giants step …
Business in Vancouver–Oct. 4, 2018
Business in Vancouver–Oct. 4, 2018
Opinion: Government should keep mitts off commercial real estate
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 4, 2018
Two years ago Canada’s residential real estate market was a world leader as far … Within a year Vancouver and Toronto home sales were down 35 per cent and …
Vancouver mayoral candidates have their say on housing
Globalnews.ca–Oct. 4, 2018
YES Vancouver has a comprehensive Let’s Fix Housing Action Plan ….. Billions of dollars pour into the real estate bubble in Vancouver as the rich try to turn a …
Fraser Valley becomes favoured real estate investment destination
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 3, 2018
The population gap between Surrey and Vancouver will narrow to 100,000 … (SCDC), presented September 13 at an event sponsored by the Real Estate …
Poltergeist II: The demons that still haunt Canada’s housing and credit …
The Globe and Mail–Oct. 2, 2018
The focus, as always, is on Vancouver and Toronto, where high prices and … said of world housing markets in its annual Global Real Estate Bubble Index report …
Victoria has third least-affordable Canadian housing market: RBC
Times Colonist–Sep. 29, 2018
Metro Vancouver residents on average would have to devote 88.4 per cent of … The share of a median Vancouver income needed to buy an average condo …
Montreal real estate sales hit 9-year high
NiagaraFallsReview.ca-Oct. 5, 2018
MONTREAL — The Montreal real estate market is on a roll. … real estate market, even as sales have slowed over the past year in Vancouver and Toronto.
Vancouver opens the door to duplexes
The Globe and Mail–Oct. 4, 2018
… cheaper form of housing than the increasingly out-of-reach detached-house estate. … The uproar over allowing duplexes in Vancouver resulted in 70 people …
BC to look at private lenders as part of money laundering probe
The Globe and Mail–Sep. 30, 2018
A new probe into money-laundering in British Columbia will look into private lenders’ use of Vancouver-area real estate to hide drug money, a tactic uncovered …
Province launches probe into ‘dirty money’ in BC real estate
Business in Vancouver–Sep. 28, 2018
The B.C. government is launching its promised Phase 2 investigation into money laundering in the province, this time focusing primarily on real estate, as well as …
Canadian Real Estate Owners That Tapped A HELOC Owe An …
Better Dwelling–Oct. 1, 2018
Canadian real estate owners are wasting no time burning though that new equity. ….. This Week’s Top Stories: Toronto and Vancouver Real Estate Top The …
The Speculation Tax Will Be Good for Immigration — and Vancouver
TheTyee.ca–Oct. 2, 2018
The Speculation Tax Will Be Good for Immigration — and Vancouver … It’s next to impossible to lay down roots in real estate, and rentals rates keep people in …
New CMHC guidelines could open doors to financing for self-employed
The Globe and Mail–Oct. 1, 2018
… a borrower in Toronto or Vancouver paying an extra percentage point could pay … David Binn, a real estate agent in Toronto for more than a dozen years, said … a realtor at The Binns Group with Keller Williams Advantage Realty brokerage.
Sponsored Post: 5 Most Expensive Homes For Sale In Vancouver
Urban Toronto–Sep. 28, 2018
As a result of this, the cost of Vancouver real estate has been on a massive increase over the years. The purpose of this piece is to give you information on how …
How the proposed USMCA trade deal helps end the greatest …
The Globe and Mail–Oct. 1, 2018
Immigration and restrictions on construction of residential real estate in urban areas are often mentioned as reasons why home prices in many cities took off after …
Real estate boards agree to sales data access deal
The Globe and Mail–Sep. 29, 2018
His board shares its Multiple Listing System with the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver and the Chilliwack Real Estate Board (which in total represent …
RBC: Canadian Real Estate Is The Least Affordable Since 1990
Better Dwelling–Oct. 2, 2018
Canadian real estate hit the least affordable numbers its seen in decades. The cost ….. RBC analysts noted it’s not an exaggeration to call Vancouver real estate …
Notorious Vancouver slumlords linked to Burnaby rental ‘shell game’
Vancouver Courier-Oct. 5, 2018
Pal Sahota, the family’s patriarch, said the family had wished to acquire properties in the names of the next generation, so the family’s real estate portfolio could …
Todd Talbot from Love It or List It has some real estate investing …
Vancouver Is Awesome–Oct. 1, 2018
Todd Talbot from Love It or List It has some real estate investing advice for you … This week on the Vancouver Is Awesome podcast we sit down with the one and …
Race to watch: Density and taxes up for debate in West Vancouver
Globalnews.ca–Oct. 2, 2018
For the first time in a decade, there will be a competitive election for the mayor’s office in West Vancouver. The community boasts some of the highest real estate …
Metro Vancouver home sales plummet 43.5% in September
The Tri-City News–Oct. 2, 2018
September is usually the month that we’d expect to see real estate activity start to pick up after a summer break – but there’s no sign of that this year, new …
The big chill: A five-year house price forecast for 33 Canadian cities
The Globe and Mail–Oct. 3, 2018
Indeed, Moody’s Analytics and RPS Real Property Solutions have cut their … local real estate in 2016 and new federal mortgage-qualification rules were …. 1: “Given that most of the house price increases took place in Toronto and Vancouver, …
Strong market, rising interest rates raise market correction fears
Business in Vancouver–Oct. 3, 2018
And when was the last time we saw a correction in the real estate market? … RealEstate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) president Phil Moore observes …
Toronto Real Estate Sales Pop In The 905, Drop In The City, and …
Better Dwelling–Oct. 3, 2018
Toronto Real Estate Sales Pop In The 905, Drop In The City, and Inventory Rises …… Criswell, that actually happened in Vancouver, condo ave. price surpassed $1M …. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) number show condo apartment prices …
40 things that made Vancouver AWESOME this week
Vancouver Is Awesome-Oct. 5, 2018
On this week’s V.I.A. podcast, we spoke with Love It or List It’s Todd Talbot about strategies for investing in real estate in B.C., his annual involvement in …
Here’s who’s running for city council in Vancouver this election
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 3, 2018
Alm previously ran for council in 2002, 2011 and 2014 and refers to himself as both the “pro skateboarding” and “car friendly” candidate. A real estate consultant …
He Sold $800 Million of Luxury Homes During a Housing Crisis, then …
TheTyee.ca–Oct. 4, 2018
That revelation likely came as no surprise to Malcolm Hasman, a top-performing seller of luxury real estate in Vancouver. From 2010 to 2017, Hasman says he …
Doolin’s to close October 31 part of Granville Street transformation
Business in Vancouver-Oct. 5, 2018
“This is going to be the start of a real renaissance and reinvigoration of the Granville … Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) CEO …
Vancouver developer withdraws Victoria proposal at last minute
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 4, 2018
The Vancouver-based company withdrew its rezoning application from the city committee-of-the-whole agenda at the last minute after the Downtown Residents …
OMERS cashes in and builds as Vancouver’s office market hits record
Business in Vancouver–Oct. 3, 2018
OMERS cashes in and builds as Vancouver’s office market hits record … office tower on Melville Street through its Oxford Properties Group real estate arm.
Vancouver’s Urban Design Panel to review Dunbar development Oct. 3
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 1, 2018
Vancouver’s Urban Design Panel to review Dunbar development Oct. 3 … Dunbar St. will be reviewed by the City of Vancouver’s Urban Design Panel Oct. 3.
Attend the unveiling of this massive, waterfront park in False Creek this …
Vancouver Is Awesome–Sep. 28, 2018
This Sunday, September 30th, a beautiful, waterfront park will open in Vancouver’sNortheast False Creek. Concord Pacific, Vancouver’s largest provider of …
Best of Vancouver 2018: Activities & Events
Straight.com–Oct. 3, 2018
Vancouver loves its sleek, minimalist cafés, but the recently launched … In Vancouver’s real-estate world, fun always takes a back seat to financial gain.
On the fence about leasing or buying commercial real estate?
BCBusiness–Sep. 28, 2018
If you’re a business owner, is it better to lease or buy commercial real estate? … and leasing, at real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield in Vancouver.
Todd Talbot Q&A: How not to make classic home-buying blunders
Vancouver Courier–Oct. 3, 2018
Ahead of this month’s 2018 Vancouver Fall Home Show, at which he will be …. of 15 years of investing in real estate, leveraging value increases and putting in …
Anne Roberts: Vancouver needs U-Pass for the working class
Straight.com-Oct. 5, 2018
For the past few decades, some people have been given a free ride in Vancouver: the real estate developers and speculators. They’ve been making billions …
Cumberland News Now
The lowdown on down payments
Cape Breton Post–Oct. 1, 2018
That’s according to a recent nationwide survey by real estate website … in the country’s priciest market of Vancouver think a down payment of less than $100,000 …
Millennials Study: Down Payments Delay Homeownership by up …
Beaten-down prairie looks like a gold mine to this real estate investor
BNNBloomberg.ca–Sep. 28, 2018
As property values surge in Toronto and Vancouver, a Calgary asset … That’s given Avenue Living the chance to purchase real estate at a discount based on …
Vancouver office building vacancies plunge while lease rates soar
Vancouver Is Awesome–Sep. 28, 2018
Vacancy rates for all office classes in downtown Vancouver have further … according to a survey by Devencore, a real estate brokerage and advisory firm.
Vancouver home sales activity declined considerably last month
Mortgage Broker News–Oct. 3, 2018
Vancouver home sales activity declined considerably last month … sales in September, according to latest data from the Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board.
Weekly Buzz: Victoria and Vancouver residential, office markets
Western Investor–Sep. 28, 2018
Following a lacklustre summer performance, Metro Vancouver’s $1 million-plus real estate market is set to see even greater declines this fall, according to a …
Vancouver et Toronto parmi les grandes villes du monde les plus à …
Le Journal de Montréal–Sep. 30, 2018
… et Toronto figurent parmi les six grandes villes du monde les plus à risque d’être actuellement dans une bulle immobilière, selon le rapport Global Real Estate …
Virtual reality summit draws major Asian interest
Business in Vancouver–Oct. 2, 2018
Vancouver’s rising profile in the virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) … are targeting B.C.’s real estate developers by presenting “virtual showroom” …