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May. 17, 2017 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: A Different Angle on Foreign Buying

Ian: Interesting flip of the normal narrative. From Better Dwelling:  According to the National Association of Realtors, the top 5 markets…
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May. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Are there 800,000 Empty Bedrooms in Metro Vancouver?

Metro News and reporter Jen St. Denis reports on Toronto economist Paul Smetanin who has ascertained that if an elderly couple…
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May. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Smashed Avocado on Toast and Millennials in Australia

In the hyper Australian housing market Jennifer Wells of Metro News describes real estate developer Tim Gurner’s unfortunate and thoughtless remarks about…
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May. 16, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Party turn into Parks as Sydney Australia Mayor leads Sustainability

The City of Sydney Australia and the Lord Mayor Clover Moore have been championing climate change, and have led a campaign…
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May. 15, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Richmond, Let's Make Farmland Important, Not a Land Grab for Mansion Builders

As reported in the Richmond News there’s been some surprising setbacks in the City of Richmond’s approach to stop the creation…
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May. 12, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Building Resilience: Older Buildings in the Sustainable City

Mark Thompson Brandt, Conservation Architect and Author, will discuss why it is important to sustainably upgrade our older building stock,…
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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills, Warren Buffett, and the On-Line Retail Shift

You are not hearing a lot in the press about the Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall, built by the Quebec Ivanhoe…
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May. 10, 2017 / Gordon Price

Metro Conversations | The Sacred Single Family Home – May 17

From Metro Conversations:   The Sacred Single Family Home: What are we trying to protect and why? . With the…
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May. 10, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The word "Compromise" means to "Co-Promise"-new era ahead at the Province?

The Provincial Election is over and the electorate gasps as results indicate that no one (yet) really has the reins…
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May. 08, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Iconic Tower Tree Felled,Renewed in West End

If you google “west end condominium  with a tree on top” you will find this condopedia page that describes the building at…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Quadruples in Interest Costs to $12 Billion Dollars – Leaked Gov't Document

This just in from Business in Vancouver and Nelson Bennett, reporter. Documents leaked to and by the NDP Party show…
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May. 05, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Housing-type trends in Canada

Spotted by Jak King on a site called Neighbourhood Change. Vancouver is the outlier in Canada in terms of the…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"Creme de la Creme" Reappears in Shaughnessy Property Owners Association "Slavery" Analogy

About fifteen years  ago at a hearing regarding the future of the Arbutus rail alignment (now a greenway) a resident…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Port Mann Bridge, the Massey Bridge and the French Connection

  If you go  through the Massey Tunnel, you’ve seen an increase in machinery and people wearing hard hats at…

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