Real Estate

NPA blasts city for proceeding with affordable housing initiative before getting council's OK

The marketers of Village on False Creek sold six units on the weekend and are outpacing their own sales expectations, Rennie Marketing Systems owner Bob Rennie told Business in Vancouver yesterday.

Demographics will help B.C. enjoy the strongest increase in housing demand in Canada during the next decade, CIBC economist Benjamin Tal predicted in a report last week.

B.C. housing affordability has eroded for the second consecutive quarter of the year, according to a report released this morning by RBC Economics.

Metro Vancouver's commercial real estate market remains stable, according to the latest CBRE Ltd. reports.

Silver Award winners named

British Columbia Investment Management Corp.’s (bcIMC) Park Place has been awarded LEED Gold certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Canada 2009 program.

City of smart ideas prepares to anchor growth in region's central core

The B.C. government has signed an incremental treaty agreement (ITA) with Nazko First Nation, under which the band will receive more than 275 hectares of Crown land.

Melbourne and Vienna have beaten out Vancouver in a new report ranking the world’s most livable cities in 2012. Melbourne took top honours with Vienna in second place, in the annual Economist Intelligence Unit report.