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Sep. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Where does housing growth occur in Metro Vancouver?

Last week, I posted a piece from the Los Angeles blog, DTLA Rising that noted a fifth of all housing…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

The City and CP: Insights from Auerbach

Herb Auerbach is a long-time real-estate consultant in Vancouver.  In the following letter to Mayor Robertson, he provides lots of insight…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: A Tax for Housing and Transportation – Sep 18

  Linked: A Housing Speculation Tax and Transportation Funding   The two hot issues in the Lower Mainland are the…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By comparison: If you think a high percent of Metro Vancouver's housing has been built downtown …

Try Los Angeles. . From Curbed LA: One-Fifth of LA’s New Housing in Past 15 Years is in Downtown .…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By comparison: If you think rents in Vancouver are high …

Try San Francisco. From Curbed: … everything is compressed into one miniature 372-square-foot space, and there’s no actual kitchen, just…
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Sep. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver: The Highrise Myth – 1

Peruse the media that describe or comment on Vancouver (including this blog) and there is typically one assumption, stated or otherwise, when…
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Sep. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

House prices in Vancouver: Most concerning in the country

From Business in Vancouver: The price gap between the starter home and the dream home is widening at a rate…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Addressing both high housing costs and transit funding with one tax

Jeff Nagel just added this to the comments section under “The Beautiful Empty Homes of Vancouver.” We (the Black Press newspaper…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Beautiful Empty Homes of Vancouver

While Ireland may have ghost estates (below), Vancouver has its “beautiful empty homes.”  Vancity Buzz reported on a web site of that title here.…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Lecture and Panel: Vancouver in the 21st Century – Sep 24

. ANDY YAN: VANCOUVER IN THE 21ST CENTURY .  Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 7:00 PM Where: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Goldcorp…
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Aug. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

Future Present: The History, Problems and Possibilities of the Canada Line

Kenneth Chan, in Vancity Buzz, asks a question we’ve all wondered about when standing on a crowded platform in the…
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Aug. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

How Seattle Sees Us

Matt Lerner – a founder of WalkScore – thinks Vancouver has the right idea, as told by Seattle Times columnist…
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Aug. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fresh Crème in the Southern Tier

Shaughnessy? Arbutus? Kerrisdale? Point Grey? Nope.   Welcome to South Surrey. As Surrey transforms into a major metropolitan hub, it…
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Aug. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vacant Units: Higher? Lower? Unlikely?

CMHC has generated some data for a debate that has, so far, been based on guesswork, speculation, extrapolation and misinterpretation. From…

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