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May. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Martyn Brown on the Housing Crisis: Analysis and Prescription

From the Straight: When the former Chief of Staff to Gordon Campbell writes an essay as scathing as this on…
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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Economic Scorecard: Greater Vancouver by the numbers

Greater Vancouver by the numbers . Regional Challenges Despite Greater Vancouver’s bright near-term economic outlook, the region’s longer term performance…
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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

“Don’t mess with my lottery winnings”

From the Vancouver Courier – North Shore real estate: The new gold rush . Some jurisdictions in other parts of the…
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May. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

Surreal Estate – The Video, Part 1

From Vice: Surreal Estate – Part 1: Inside Vancouver’s Skyrocketing Housing Market Vancouver, BC is a town built on real…
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May. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: “Some kind of hysteria”

Item from Ian: Even one of the most seasoned veteran observers of the real estate industry has been shaken by…
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May. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: The Monsters we live with

They’ve reached Port Moody: . This clip from The Sun is as interesting (and ironic) for the surrounding ads as…
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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

Teardown: No good intention goes unpunished

This just in from Business in Vancouver: . Single-family lots in East Vancouver are gradually densifying through city bylaws that…
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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Frenzied in Aus

Scot updates the news in their frenzied market:   MORTGAGE fraud by brokers and banks could bring on a financial…
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May. 16, 2016 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Anecdotes and impacts

Items on the frenzied Vancouver real-estate market … just over this weekend. .    *  *  *  *  *  *  …
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May. 13, 2016 / Gordon Price

Astonishing Real-estate Story of the Day

From Business in Vancouver: . No, no, silly, it’s not astonishing that foreign buyers are into high-end real estate.  It’s…
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Apr. 25, 2016 / Gordon Price

“Global Real Estate Investment: The Vancouver-China Nexus”

On April 14, UBC’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate (CUERE) and the Centre for Chinese Research (CCR)  co-hosted…
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Apr. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Must-Read: "The Highest Bidder"

Kerry Gold brings a lot of the Vancouver Dilemma together in “The Highest Bidder” – now out in The Walrus.…
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Mar. 27, 2016 / tanyapazzy

How are you supporting local shopping districts through fear to data and bicycle parking?

How many times have you thought: I’d love to sit outside but it’s kinda noisy and stinky with the cars…
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Mar. 27, 2016 / tanyapazzy

Putting Puzzle Pieces Together #ArbutusCorridor #bikeshare @SouthGranville

1) Bikeshare system area On February 24th, the City of Vancouver announced the Summer 2016 launch of our first bikesharing…

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