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Aug. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Rezonings – 2: Questions that still need answering

As mentioned here, Elizabeth Murphy essentially writes one column.  Here’s the latest version in The Sun:  At the start of…
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Aug. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

PDX vs YVR: Same symptoms, different sources

From CityLab: The dream of the ’50s is alive in Portland The question now is whether the idea of Portlandia…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Comparing Housing Costs in San Francisco and Seattle

Another piece on the dilemma faced by our neighbours down the coast – from John Graham: Here’s an interesting article…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: How did it come to this?

With the arrival of our new chief planner, Gil Kelley, previously from San Francisco, this current piece in The Guardian seems relevant…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Yours for $300,000 (US)

Of course, you have to live in Bali: Gladys We links to a fine selection of $300,000 houses around the…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Friday Funny: to See Ourselves

The Beaverton, always a reliable source for ideologically untainted news, weighs in on Vancouver real estate.  Writer Jacob Duarte Spiel drills down…
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Aug. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian And Daily Scot: Rent Control in Paris and New York

Ian – Memo to Vancouver: Whenever someone says that nothing can be done to make Vancouver more affordable … they’re…
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Aug. 03, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Real Estate Tax — Charter Implications

Sean Rehagg in the Globe and Mail writes that BC’s new tax on property purchased by foreign nationals is illegal.  The…
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Aug. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Rezonings: Questions that should be answered

Elizabeth Murphy essentially writes one column.  Here’s the latest version in Business in Vancouver: The rush to rezone fuels speculative…
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Aug. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: A debate on home ownership

Ian:  There was some recent data on these rates in Canada/BC also … with similar trends emerging.  A good debate…
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Jul. 29, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Foreign Buyer Tax Money

Mike Hager in the Globe and Mail  on BC’s new foreign buyer tax, and what the Prov Gov’t will do…
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Jul. 29, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Grandview-Woodland plan approved

The exhaustive and exhausting G-W Community Plan process came to an end Thursday when council approved the last iteration (with…
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Jul. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Falling Down in London – 2

From The Guardian: The first real signs of distress in the market for luxury London apartments are starting to emerge,…
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Jul. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Foreign Buyers Tax: Suppositions and Implications

From the Sun’s Vaughn Palmer: “Liberals play to electorate with foreign home tax” Caution is generally seen as a virtue in…

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