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Apr. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Recommended Readings: Transit, development, who should pay and how

Two articles worth bringing forward.  The first by Kerry Gold in the Globe and Mail: . In Vancouver, developers’ plans…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Changes in rates and perceptions: housing, income and inflation

David’s comment to this post deserves highlighting: . Vancouver house prices were increasing at a ridiculous rate before there was…
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Apr. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vacant Homes: Opening Pandora’s Box

Good for the City in attempting to get a handle on the number of vacant homes, and the reasons why…
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Apr. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

Tripling Tweets: What three items about real estate might really mean for Vancouver

Everyone talks about it – except our leaders.  There has been little sustained comment or debate by elected officials, local…
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Apr. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

Attention Due: The Commercial Real Estate Market in Downtown Vancouver

Residential real-estate gets the comments and coverage (average detached-house price: $1.27 million in Vancouver and the North Shore!).  But at last week’s…
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Apr. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Unreal Estate

A Spanish realtor had an assuming experience selling houses in Vancouver. .…
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Apr. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Contradictory Growth

Tom Durning sends around a housing update each week. Here’s an excerpt from this week: . Interesting take on the…
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Mar. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Transit and Development – The Implications

Scot links to this ‘advertorial’ from Colliers: an interview with Andrew Grant, President of the PCI Group, the developer of…
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Mar. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

China’s Next Ghost Towns

From the South China Morning Post: Unlike ghost towns in the West which are laid waste by wars, natural disasters,…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bikes Change Your Brooklyn Apartment Hunt

Well, maybe not yours – but it did for Jesse Warner-Levine and Hallie Nickelson, according to the New York Times: .…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: On Precedent

One of the trickiest things to watch out for if you are in charge of approving development in a city,…
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Feb. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Speaker Series: Urban Land Institute for Students at UBC – Feb 25

ULI BC has arranged a Speakers Series for students studying planning, real estate, architecture and related disciplines.  Learn more about…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Bicycle in Popular Culture: The Independent Ad

Charlie Walsh: Note the number of cyclists present and the number of helmets on their heads in The Independent’s promo video…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Wealth, Real Estate and New York – The Series

This is what puts the “New York” in the New York Times: a spectacularly researched and gripping story of not…

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