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Six towers at PoCo Place mall at Lougheed Highway and Westwood Street
Western Investor · 02 Dec 2024 · Janis Gleugh
A well-known builder in Coquitlam's Westwood Plateau and Burke Mountain neighbourhoods plans to construct six towers at a key intersection in Port Coquitlam. Today, Dec. 2, Wesbild announced it had applied to rezone PoCo Place — the strip mall at Loughee…
Royal LePage expands footprint with Lower Mainland acquisitions
Business in Vancouver · 09 Apr 2024 · Peter Mitham
The importance of technology to residential property sales – and in turn the investors participating in the market – is once again in the spotlight with Royal LePage's latest brokerage acquisition in Metro Vancouver. Royal LePage Elite West, based …
Massive Westport Village Project May go Ahead After 18-year Delay
Western Investor · 24 Jul 2023 · Mario Barnet
On July 25, 2023, 18 years after it was first suggested, Port Moody city council will consider fourth reading of amendments to the city's zoning and official community plan bylaws that would allow a massive mixed-use development by Andrew Peller Ltd. to procee…
Port Coquitlam housing affordability concern
Western Investor · 08 Feb 2022 · Diane Strandberg
Meanwhile, renters, many of whom are in older homes slated for redevelopment, are paying increasingly steeper rents and could risk losing their units when developers sell.
Six-storey condo project proposed for Port Moody
Western Investor · 03 Dec 2021 · Mario Bartel
The current benchmark price for a Port Moody resale condominium is $741,200, according to November data from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. But several councillors expressed concern such micro-suites were out of place in a suburban setting with fe…
Unveiling changes aimed at increasing housing supply | Provincial Government
The Vancouver Sun · 26 Oct 2021 · Dan Fumano
The B.C. government has been recently trying new things to help — and sometimes push — local governments to approve more affordable housing more quickly. In one example this year, Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer observed Housing Minister Davi…
Vancouver downtown achieved outstanding sales in their major comeback
other · 07 Jul 2021 · Kenneth Chan
This is a significant litmus test for the condominium market in downtown Vancouver, which has had zero successful pre-sale launches over the last four years — a slowdown period that began with the provincial government's major interventions in the housin…
Sell out of Coquitlam office in a week due to market demand
Western Investor · 17 Jun 2021 · Frank O'Brien
Bosa Development sold out 15 floors of its 30-storey Waterfront Centre office tower in downtown Vancouver as strata in 2017 at $2,000 per square foot, but current office strata is mostly seen in conversion of older office buildings, much of it Burnaby.…