British Columbia

New space will push lease rates towards $15 per square foot, a fresh benchmark for the market

Central bank was widely expected to maintain pause on overnight rate

Retail giant will leave 230,000 square feet and 1,000 employees when it pulls out of downtown Vancouver in June

New projects asked to be all things to all people – but there are limits

The sale price per square foot of a downtown condo increased 5 per cent between January and February to $1,141 as core working and living comes slowly back in style

Canada’s largest landlord offers to sell hundreds of its older “affordable” units to the B.C. government and non-profits

The 2,400-home, $1.1 billion Portwood project by Edgar Development is the first master-planned housing community in the city since 2004

City of Vancouver finally moved to bring the East Hastings encampment to a close "following a steady deterioration in public safety and an increase in fires in the area and the encampment zone”

Vancouver-based Optima Living and Axium Infrastructure of Montreal, via a Yarrow joint venture, have added more than 1,200 beds to the venture's Alberta portfolio.

“The only thing that’s holding us back is that we have all our jobs here, the three youngest go to school here and they have friends. It’s like being between a rock and a hard place,” says the mother.