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B.C. home sales forecast to slide further next year

B.C. home sales forecast to slide further next year

It’s not news that B.C. home sales across 2018 are expected to be significantly lower than last year – but now the Canadian Real Estate Association is also predicting a further slide in 2019's resale transactions.
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Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­residents divided over duplexes replacing single-family homes

Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­residents divided over duplexes replacing single-family homes

The duplex proposal is one of the city’s “quick-start” actions in its Making Room housing program approved in June. Its goal is to increase the supply of “missing middle” types of housing to create a diversity of choices that are cheaper than detached houses.
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Penthouse under construction re-listed for $10.88M (PHOTOS)

Penthouse under construction re-listed for $10.88M (PHOTOS)

If you’re a wealthy buyer who missed out on one of the penthouses at the under-construction Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­House in downtown Vancouver, now’s your chance. And for the rest of us who can only dream of such luxury, just check out this jaw-dropping home and even more amazing roof deck.
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Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­homeowners fee the sting of rising interest rates

Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­homeowners fee the sting of rising interest rates

An increase in household debt levels added to the recent hikes in interest rates means that many homeowners are starting to feel a financial “sting,” according to a new study by research group Environics Analytics.
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Opinion: Is Canada’s housing market at extreme risk or out of danger?

Opinion: Is Canada’s housing market at extreme risk or out of danger?

Readers following national housing market news would be forgiven for being confused about what’s going on, with contradictory reports making it almost impossible to tell up from down.
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B.C. real estate downturn “largely behind us” – despite actual sales dropping

B.C. real estate downturn “largely behind us” – despite actual sales dropping

Is the B.C. real estate market already showing signs of bouncing back from its government intervention-induced downturn?
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Architects step up to build better homes in Indigenous communities

Architects step up to build better homes in Indigenous communities

Canada’s Architects Without Borders (AWB) may have already come up with solutions to help alleviate the generally poor housing conditions in Canada’s 600 Indigenous communities and reserves, the bulk of which are in B.C. and Ontario.
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This infographic breaks down how unaffordable detached homes in Metro Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­are

This infographic breaks down how unaffordable detached homes in Metro Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­are

Exactly how much of a gap is there between median incomes earned in Metro Vancouver, and the income you’d need to buy the average priced house in the area?
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B.C. municipalities call on province to tackle real estate speculation

B.C. municipalities call on province to tackle real estate speculation

As mayors and provincial leaders gather for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities summit in Whistler this week, the union is taking the opportunity to renew calls for the province to do more on real estate speculation.
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Metro Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­home prices will continue cooling trend

Metro Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­home prices will continue cooling trend

The frenzied housing market of the past few years seems to have largely cooled, and now a group of property analysts are predicting it will keep doing so.
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