Real Estate

A Gastown condominium project is creating a buzz for its novel marketing ploy of urging buyers to pay for at least part of their down payment by trading in their car.

Credit Suisse Real Estate Asset Management and SwissReal Group revealed their confidence in Vancouver's office market by launching construction of their long-planned $200 million Exchange office tower at 475 Howe Street despite not having any tenants lined up.

The food court and lower level of downtown Vancouver’s popular Harbour Centre have had a multi-million dollar makeover.

Investment in the construction of new housing was down in November, according to Statistics Canada data released January 22.

Vancouver real estate ranks as the second most expensive in nine countries in the developed world as a multiple of the average resident's income for the second year in a row, according to St. Louis-based research firm Demographia.

Financially troubled Victoria developer League group of companies has started selling some of its properties under a six-month court-imposed deadline.

Vancouver realtor Mayur Arora announced January 21 that he will start accepting commissions on property sales in bitcoins at his OneFlatFee.ca real estate brokerage company.

Industrial real estate sales in 2013 were dampened because of vendor misconceptions relating to potential land-use options, according to a January 20 Avison Young market report.

Abbotsford-based Quantum Properties has become the first B.C. real estate developer to accept bitcoin for deposits on homes.

Miller Thomson LLP plans to move into the redeveloped Pacific Centre at 725 Granville Street above the future Nordstrom department store.