I started hearing this kind of story that last few months almost, it seemed, every time I went out of the house. People who told me they were renting out the condo they purchased years ago, but had moved on to renting a larger house somewhere. My son-in-law was urged by a friend to buy […]

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This is a first for Ivanhoe Cambridge, the global real-estate investment firm, and for the city — a $1.5-billion redevelopment project scheduled for Oakridge Centre is being scaled back. My story here details the many reasons the company gave and that retail consultants also suggested: high construction costs, a hugely long period of construction that […]

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I know people who read this blog are getting a little fried with real-estate discussions these days, which all seem to end in stand-offs and abound in contradictions. In spite of that, you likely want to retain some space in your calendar for an interesting effort being put on by the Museum of Vancouver and […]

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This wasn’t a great year for Vancouver (the city, the region). A transit plebiscite turned into an unproductive brawl that pitted drivers against transit users and then failed miserably. The level of angst over the pace of change in the region and the increasingly incoherent real-estate market, with single-family houses and commercial properties trading for […]

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