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Jul. 25, 2016 / Gordon Price

Well, well, look what just happened

Anyone care to speculate how this came about – and some of the consequences?…
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Jul. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: The Elephant Race

Ian takes a quote from Sandy Garossino’s critique on real estate and race in the National Observer: Little could be…
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Jul. 21, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Building With Heart and Colour

Located at 1099 Richards Street, the New Jubilee House will provide 162 units of affordable housing (compared to 87 units…
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Jul. 18, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Empty House Tax On Trial

D. John Goundrey, in Business In Vancouver, looks into some legal sides (five) of the proposed empty house tax. He…
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Jul. 15, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Another Voice In the Noise

Many voices in the housing conversation cry in various ways and loudly about the detached single-family home, who’s buying, and…
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Jul. 14, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

As the Noise Level Rises

CRA and the Province pile in. Numbers of wildly varying relevance and quality flood the press, the blogs, Twitter and every other…
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Jul. 14, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

CRA Real Estate Action

Ian Young writes in South China Morning Post to describe leaked content of a June 2, 2016 briefing to Canada Revenue…
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Jul. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

Provincial Data on Foreign Nationals Property Purchases

The Sun reports on the just-completed media conference by Finance Minister Mike De Jong: Main findings include, between June 10…
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Jul. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

AirBnB: A Sign of the Times

Seen in the elevator lobby of The Hudson at Granville and Dunsmuir:…
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Jul. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

Waiting to be Brexited: Today's Story

Just in time for the Province’s release of foreign-ownership data, here’s an international story just today that makes it clear how…
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Jul. 05, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Thirty Days or less-no lease Airbnb

I  leased a condo on the upper East Side of Manhattan through Craigslist while doing some work in New York City.…
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Jul. 04, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Is There a Bubble In Housing?

Certainly it looks like a bubble, and here’s someone betting on it bursting. You may not know who Marc Cohodes…
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Jun. 25, 2016 / Dan Ross

Heritage Compromise

What elements of a ‘Heritage’ property should be prioritized for the sake of preservation – especially an older suburban one?…
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Jun. 22, 2016 / Dan Ross

Delbrook Lands – Small Piece of a Picture Coming Together

Last February I posted about the District of North Vancouver and Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue teaming up to…

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