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Renting
There is some potentially good news for people looking for a new place to rent in Greater Vancouver. Zumper, a digital marketplace for renters and property managers, published its August rent report today, in which it lo...
Industry & Regulation
The role of AI is increasing in various realms of our everyday lives, and that includes Canadian real estate with the rise of AI-generated or virtual staging. Daily Hive Urbanized covers a wide swath of topics related to...
Renting
A Surrey landlord has been arrested, but is not currently facing any approved charges, after wild interactions between her and tenants were shared on a public Instagram account. The Instagram account tiwanafarmservivor h...
Renting
Finding a rental that fits your budget in Vancouver today often means compromise. Many people find themselves in a grey area: not eligible for supportive housing but unable to afford market-rate rentals. And even when th...
Garry Marr
Rents keep falling and developers are looking to cut costs as affordability remains challenging
Lifestyle
A morbid and popular Vancouver attraction is moving after four decades in the same location. The Vancouver Police Museum has been located at 240 East Cordova St., but it will be closing its doors this Halloween for the f...
Renting
Vancouver rent continued to rise in August, following the seasonal trend of month-over-month increases. Rentals.ca and Urbanation recently released their August national rent report, revealing the average asking rent in...
Renting
Canada’s East-West divide is extending to rental affordability, and not in the way many would expect. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows national two-bedroom asking rents sliding further in Q2 2026, but Atlantic Cana...
Lifestyle
London Drugs and Fresh St. Market have been confirmed as the anchor tenants at Alba, which is a new Vancouver rental community from Hathstauwk. Dished Vancouver covered the Fresh St. announcement, which will occupy a who...
Renting
The average asking price for a rental unit in August was $2,035, down 4.8% compared with a year ago.
Housing Market
If you’ve ever dreamed of living right beside 36 of your closest friends, now is your chance: an entire row of homes in Edmonton’s Rosenthal neighbourhood has come up for sale. The turnkey portfolio consists of 12 newly...
Insider
By: Harjaap Singh Makkar, ColliersFor the better part of two years, the smartest move for a tenant with an industrial lease coming due in the GTA was to do nothing. Every quarter brought more space, softer rents, and a l...
Housing Market
A B.C. strata and one of the strata’s homeowners were involved in a legal battle over a parking stall after the homeowner had his original spot, stall 69, switched to a new one. According to the homeowner, who was the ap...
Government & Policy
On September 2, the federal government, the City of Burnaby, and the Burnaby Housing Authority announced nearly $92 million in combined funding to build 183 secure rental homes.The new builds are set to rise at 6203 Mari...
Housing Market
Metro Vancouver real estate sales continued to slump in August, with experts citing the immigration slowdown, weak demand from investors, and mortgage rates that are still too high to entice buyers. The Fraser Valley Rea...
Housing Market
A recently listed West Vancouver home is asking for much less than it sold for just three years ago. And according to the listing, it also comes with a gift that would only be suitable for Tesla drivers. The West Vancouv...
Lifestyle
A multimillion-dollar home tucked away in Edmonton’s Mill Creek Ravine is once again on the market, this time with a significant price drop after years of making headlines for everything from its construction to its famo...
Renting
New research reveals just how much Vancouver renters have saved from the City restricting short-term rental (STR) operators like Airbnb. The City of Vancouver first introduced its short-term rental regulations in 2018, w...
Renting
A new report looks at the cost of living in major cities, revealing that the cost of rent in Vancouver is the highest in the world. Bunq, Europe’s second-largest neobank, released its Working Abroad Index, where it exami...
New Development
Work to widen Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley continues to progress this summer, and drivers are being notified that a new traffic-pattern change may impact overnight commutes starting as early as Monday evening. The...
Renting
While the news that the B.C. rent increase cap is being lowered in 2027 is good news for renters in the short term, it could have some negative long-term consequences. Last week, the B.C. government announced that the re...
Renting
A B.C. landlord who was recently implicated in a wrongful eviction legal fight over thousands of dollars said the applicant who made a claim against him was just a guest, not a tenant. The renter and the applicant in the...
New Development
After an absence of more than six years, Safeway has officially returned to Vancouver’s second largest shopping centre — and some eager shoppers began waiting outside the doors before 7 a.m., more than three hours before...
Renting
Renters in Metro Vancouver and British Columbia are getting some good news as the B.C. government has announced a lower rent increase cap for 2027. The rent increase cap for 2026 is 2.3 per cent. Next year, B.C. says it’...
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