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Experience the luxurious and premier entertainment destination hotel in Vancouver
The property includes two hotels, a two-level casino, a large outdoor park, a full-service spa and a number of restaurants and bars. That in itself makes it a bit of a one-stop staycation location, but its proximity to both BC Place and Rogers Arena also make …
Vancouver Luxury realtor Layla Yang's successful realtor career even during pandemic
"A lot of haters came out. They're very jealous of me. They're hypocrites. They don't like it if you talk about money or sex or those kinds of things. They gave me a lot of bad comments on social media. But I don't care about it."
Broadway and Granville New 39 Story Drive with Skytrain Below
Opinion: Proposed 39-storey rental tower above South Granville subway station would be among Vancouver's tallest buildings. It will likely be both applauded and derided.
2.5-acre Chilliwack brownfield site zoned industrial sold for $5.4 million
"Being on the forefront of working on new greenfield and brownfield projects in the Lower Mainland, we see that there's very little industrial land remaining, and it's increasingly shrinking in both Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley," Gaglardi said.…
The giant project proposed in Senakw development in Vancouver
An illustration for the Senakw development, located beside the Burrard Bridge, includes what appears to be a road through an under-utilized portion of the park
Vancouver mansion located at 4868 Drummond Drive sold for the listing price of $39.9M
It also translates English acts into Mandarin. In 2018 it had an inaugural production at Gateway Theatre in Richmond. Last March Chen organized a charity concert titled "One World One Love - China and Canada" for Unicef Canada's COVID-19 response, and raised c…
Sales of a multi-family rental building notching $1.64 Billion through the first six months of 2021
First-half sales were 45% higher than the entire 2020 annual total and appear on pace to hit the third-highest annual sales volume ever recorded, according to Goodman. Starlight Developments announced an all-rental rezoning of Lougheed Village on the Burnaby-C…
1,967 new listing in Greater Vancouver lower than the 2,491 properties onboarded in July
"It's not about the sales but the number of listings and the lack thereof that are keeping the market at bay this summer," stated Skipworth in the monthly email update report. "By mid-month the number of active listings in Greater Vancouver plummeted to just o…
Tallest rental tower redevelopment in Vancouver to include a 100% 52-storey rental building
The hot multi-family rental sector has attracted the attention of some of the region's largest residential developers
0.068 acres mixed-use building sells for $4.57 Million located in Hasting Street,Vancouver
Located on West Hastings Street, the 3,000-square-foot building has commercial space below and two residential rentals above, one of which is unauthorized.
The beginning of the end of new monster homes in West Vancouver | Nora Gambioli
The idea is to encourage smaller homes and limit the visual impact of houses that don't fit in with the existing neighbourhood, while still preserving property owners' equity, according to staff.
Mortgage rates remain stable and are expected until late 2022
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reports that residential home sales in the region totalled 3,326 in July 2021, a 6.3% increase from the same month last year but decreased almost 12% from last month.
Residents insights regarding the increase of housing in B.C. in the next five years
A further 11 per cent are thinking of selling and moving somewhere else in B.C. and nine per cent are considering moving to another country to afford a better home or buy something less expensive, according to the poll. As for Metro Vancouver homeowners specif…
Vancouver apartment properties showed increase in annual sales despite the moderation
Combining all three property types — detached, attached and apartments — 4,377 homes were newly listed on MLS across Metro Vancouver in July. Inventory worsened as the number of new listings hitting the market dropped by 26.4 percent from July 2020…
Price remain in July despite the challenges in Metro Vancouver low housing supply
New listings were also down 25.2 per cent to 4,377 last month compared with June and the report says July's new listings were 12.3 per cent below the 10-year average for the month. Stewart said low housing supply continues to be a challenge in Metro Vancouver …
“Marine Drive Golf Club Trail”
"We really need, especially, to offer some more help to south Vancouver," he said. "The people down there do not have enough green space. They've got one of the lowest urban forest covers. There needs to be better access to the water there. We can't expect the…
B.C. retail sales remaining above $8 billion a month this year in Metro Vancouver
"Google data shows that, as of the end of June, Metro Vancouver was just 3 per cent below normal traffic for destinations including restaurants, cafes [and] shopping centres," the agency reported July 28. The Marketbeat report also noted that at least 10 notab…
Industrial vacancy rate had plunged to a record low 0.7 percent in the mid of 2021
Concerns are mounting that the region is in danger of running out of industrial land all together. According to the Metro Vancouver 2020 Regional Industrial Lands Inventory, 82 per cent of the 28,422 acres of industrial land that was available five years ago h…
3.22 acres retail centre sells for $21.35 Million located at Delta B.C
Nordel Centre, a 42,294- square feet shopping centre set on 3.22 acres with development potential in the heart of North Delta, sold for $21.35 million.
1,174 square feet retail strata sells for $825,000 located at East Hasting Vancouver
The high-visibility Vancouver strata unit is close to the Pacific National Exhibition grounds and the Trans-Canada Highway.
0.90 acre industrial land sells for $12.33 Million located at Fraser Highway, Surrey, B.C.
Fleetwood-area strata-windup industrial property is in the new Surrey-Langley SkyTrain corridor and has OCP rezoning potential for a higher-density mixed-use development.
Vancouver’s recreational market continues to see a high volume of sales amidst pandemic
"The $4 million plus and $10 million plus brackets have been really interesting during this time, and we're seeing more prestigious listings selling and coming to the market," said Carros. "Buyers are recognizing that real estate is a valuable and stable inves…
B.C. estimates nearly 20 percent of the eligible population are unvaccinated
"We want to reach these people," said Ballem. "They're across the province and range from nearly 15 per cent unvaccinated in Vancouver Coastal to another 30 per cent in the Northern Health authority and in between in the other health authorities."…
Bosa switched a new Calgary luxury condo tower rental despite rising vacancies
Rents at the Arris start at $1,674 for a one-bedroom, compared to an average Calgary rent of $1,195 per month, based on Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) data.
A record-breaking real estate markets in Great Vancouver
A new Greater Vancouver real estate record has been broken with a new private sale recently.
Figuring out major deficiencies to fix amidst rising costs in the real estate market
"There weren't many who wanted to sell," said Hunt, citing the building's prime location in between the Pattullo and Alex Fraser bridges, with views of Mount Baker and overlooking the Fraser River, near downtown New Westminster, a park and transit. But around …
Industrial building sells for $2.3 Million located at Langley, B.C.
The freestanding building, in the Aldergrove area, is zoned light-industrial and includes renovated office space
What happen to Vancouver housing sales?
"That implies values to peak around the $2 million barrier and then backtrack to $1.83 million, the previous market peak," he said, which was seen in May 2021. Eitel said that the trend over several years has been for active listing to reach their highest annu…
Housing supply crisis in Canada issue needs to be address immediately
A major reason for the surge in demand is historically low interest rates. Adding to this, the COVID-19 remote-work structure has turned homes into a catch-all of offices, schools, gyms and living spaces; the desire and ability to move from the city to the sub…
Housing market updates in Vancouver’s listing after 25 years
"With this trend likely to continue, we could see total active listings drop below 10,000 to start September for only the second time in the last 25 years," he wrote in the monthly email update.
Building List Count by City
- Abbotsford - 447
- Agassiz - 28
- Burnaby - 55
- Burnaby East - 78
- Burnaby North - 367
- Burnaby South - 346
- Campbell River - 1
- Chilliwack - 221
- Cloverdale - 194
- Comox Valley - 10
- Coquitlam - 566
- Delta - 10
- Duncan - 41
- Esquimalt - 59
- Gulf Islands - 6
- Harrison Hot Springs - 13
- Harrison Mills - 1
- Hope - 22
- Ladner - 110
- Langford - 156
- Langley - 539
- Maple Ridge - 312
- Mill Bay - 2
- Mission - 65
- New Westminster - 444
- North Delta - 28
- North Island - 2
- North Saanich - 8
- North Surrey - 411
- North Vancouver - 747
- Oak Bay - 44
- Osoyoos - 1
- Parksville / Qualicum - 7
- Penticton - 8
- Pitt Meadows - 75
- Port Alberni - 2
- Port Coquitlam - 268
- Port Moody - 268
- Richmond - 1162
- Saanich East - 232
- Saanich West - 92
- Sardis - 154
- Sidney - 152
- Sooke - 39
- South Surrey White Rock - 714
- Surrey - 667
- Tsawwassen - 98
- Vancouver East - 1000
- Vancouver West - 2488
- Victoria - 665
- View Royal - 46
- West Vancouver - 230
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