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Government & Policy
A Vancouver neighbourhood association has lost its bid to overturn the approval for a low-rise secured purpose-built rental housing project near SkyTrain’s King Edward Station, after a judge upheld the City of Vancouver’...
New Development
A recently shuttered Petro-Canada gas station on Granville Street in Vancouver’s Marpole Village area is eyed for a sizeable mixed-use development. A new rezoning application calls for the redevelopment of the site at 80...
Mortgage Rates
Canadian households may not acknowledge it publicly, but they’re falling behind. Bank of Canada (BoC) research shows incomes beat inflation from 2020 to 2025. But the researcher warns there’s a catch, as the average ofte...
Mortgage Rates
Alternative lenders say today’s borrowers are more likely to be self-employed and asset-rich than credit-bruised, with many no longer viewing alt lending as a temporary stop on the way to a major bank.
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Mike Starchuk, the Imagine Surrey candidate for Mayor of Surrey in the October 2026 civic election. A former MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale and a 32-year veteran of the Surrey Fire Service,...
Housing Market
B.C. businesses have faced a number of challenges in the past several years, and a new survey from TD reveals how it has impacted them financially. It found that over 60 per cent of B.C. small business owners reported fa...
Renting
Rent prices have eased across Vancouver and Toronto by 6% and 5%, respectively
Housing Market
Both cities are at 'moderate' risk of a housing bubble, with depleted supply in Toronto potentially raising the stakes
New Development
Last year, news broke of a huge new grocery store that was gearing up to open just outside of Calgary, and now we finally have details on when it’s likely to open to the public. As part of a partnership between Taza Deve...
New Development
Prince Edward County — land of wineries, farms, and quaint storefronts — will soon be home to one of Ontario’s largest residential developments: a 7,500-unit master-planned community located on the site of a WWII militar...
Government & Policy
Small-scale infill projects have gone from a barely noticeable share of Toronto’s housing starts to a more meaningful one in just two years, according to a new analysis from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)...
Housing Market
FP Answers: You don't have to give up on the dream but protect it by getting high-cost debt under control first
New Development
The refresh of a large south Edmonton green space has been dealt a bit of a setback, and it’s all thanks to Mother Nature. Located in the west end, just south of the Fort Edmonton Footbridge and next to the Edmonton Coun...
Renting
Vancouver is the country’s priciest rental market, and although rent affordability has (very slightly) improved over the last couple of years, renters in the city are still spending a staggering amount of their household...
New Development
It’s been almost a year since it was revealed that a brand-new Walmart Supercentre would be opening just outside Calgary, but now we finally have an update on its progress. Last October, Walmart Canada was confirmed as t...
Mortgage Rates
TD's deputy chief economist told brokers markets may be overestimating how closely the Bank of Canada will follow the Fed, while the housing market has likely found its bottom, though recovery will take longer than hoped...
New Development
A $1.3 billion power plant is in the works for an area approximately 200 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, with plans for a large data centre to be developed alongside it. The Black Bear Power Project is a proposed 466 M...
Government & Policy
The Vancouver Liberals unveiled their housing plan today, promising to make construction of new housing cheaper and faster if the party and mayoral candidate Kareem Allam win in the upcoming municipal election. They said...
Renting
Canadian renters with aspirations to move are facing much more than a logistical hassle, according to a new report on housing affordability from Statistics Canada (StatCan). The research, which draws from the fourth cycl...
Government & Policy
Housing affordability remains one of TRREB’s top advocacy priorities. At the federal level, financing is among the most effective tools for improving housing affordability. Over the past decade, targeted initiatives supp...
Renting
Vancouver or Toronto may come to mind when thinking of cost-of-living struggles, but a new study has found that a city in Alberta is seeing one of the worst rent affordability crunches in the country. The study from Sing...
Mortgage Rates
Despite widespread perception of risk, younger Canadians are more likely to consider alternative mortgage lending, calling it flexible and innovative TORONTO — Homeownership is a goal for many Canadians, but even as pric...
Housing Market
Data shows how much money Ontario spends every year from its "homes in distress" fund, a pot set aside for long-term care operations on the brink of collapse.
New Development
Eight hotels across British Columbia are set to change hands as Vancouver-based Synvest Group of Companies acquires the family-based business behind Accent Inns and Hotel Zed. Mandy Farmer, the CEO of the business, annou...
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