Real Estate

The value of Vancouver's building permits was down 14.7% to $482.1 million in March compared with year-ago levels, according to Statistics Canada numbers released this morning.

The City of Vancouver is running short of ideas for solving the city's housing affordability crisis, so it is reaching out to the public for solutions. The city has launched a competition designed to generate ideas for providing low-cost housing.

According to the Avison Young Spring 2012 Vancouver BC Industrial Report released today, cautious optimism is driving much of the purchasing and leasing decisions within the city of Vancouver’s established industrial market. More than $102.

This morning, members of the Musqueam First Nation and its supporters are marching to protest a Marpole condo construction project that they say threatens to destroy a 4,000-year-old native village and burial site.

Homes sales in Greater Vancouver hit an 11-year low for the month of April, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports. Residential property sales on the multiple listing service in Greater Vancouver was 2,799 in April – a 13.

All floors of the Bentall Three office tower reopened Wednesday morning, following a water leak Tuesday morning that forced more than half the building to be closed down.

All but two floors of the Bentall 3 office tower are expected to reopen Wednesday morning, following a water leak Tuesday morning that forced more than half the building to be closed down, says the building's management.

Investment appeal of retail, office, industrial and multi-family buildings dropping with lower rates

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Further evidence that First Nations groups are open for business came April 18 when news broke that the Lax Kw’alaams Band will partner with established engineering firm Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. (KWL) to create Embark Engineering .