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City’s affordable housing task force: Posturing or productive?

City’s affordable housing task force: Posturing or productive?

Mayor appoints 14-person group to develop list of priorities to make housing cheaper
Canadian housing market to remain steady: CMHC

Canadian housing market to remain steady: CMHC

Canada's housing markets are expected to remain steady in 2012 and 2013, according to a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) report released this morning.
Planning director’s departure increases Vancouver city development uncertainty

Planning director’s departure increases Vancouver city development uncertainty

Builders call for radical policy changes to accompany any new Vancouver city-planning regime

City hall to tackle permitting delays

Industry applauds council’s plan to cut waits by more than half

Capitalizing on industrial heritage

Cressey, Aquilini Investment Group, Bastion Development and Vancouver working together to ensure that False Creek housing projects retain links to the city’s rich manufacturing past

Loss of industrial land alarming

Industrial land squeeze threatens to stall Metro Vancouver’s economic growth

Elysian adventures in annual property assessment anguish

I dropped in on my friend Complaigne the other day to see how he was reacting to his BC Assessment notice.

Local architects, designers building lucrative business model in Far East Beijing builds a Vancouver suburb

Fast-changing Chinese government policies encourage developers to build fast, skip public bidding and cultivate connections

Short-sellers make it buyer beware in Phoenix

Independent real estate advisers, such as Vancouver blogger, investor and consultant Ozzie Jurock and Phoenix-based Transition Financial Advisors Group founder Brian Wruk, stress that investors should do their homework before investing in a real estate fund or making independent real estate purchases.

Vancouver investors looking to raise Phoenix real estate from the ashes

U.S. market peculiarities underscore the importance of due diligence before buying properties