British Columbia

With more office space going dark than being leased up, Vancouver is among Canadian markets vulnerable to a market correction, industry surveys suggest. In its second quarter 2013 report, CBRE Ltd.

Some Vancouver small-business owners want the provincial government to intervene in the marketplace and limit rent increases on commercial properties.

The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is alleging that the developers behind Vancouver Island's largest real-estate project, Capital City Centre in Victoria, promoted securities without proper disclosure.

Industrial real estate developers are building on spec in Delta, B.C., drawn by the the potential of the new South Fraser Perimeter Road. The $1.

A Vancouver-based real estate investment trust (REIT) is betting that the big returns on residential rentals will be found south of the border.

Recent Statistics Canada studies show that B.C. is losing people at a fast pace, and nearly all of them are heading for Alberta. Since the second quarter of 2011, 12,430 more people moved from B.C. to Alberta than in the other direction.

"Greed" at all levels from the street to city hall is to blame for a sharp drop in sales of residential land in Metro Vancouver, says real estate consultant and developer Michael Geller.

The completion this year of the new HighStreet shopping complex overlooking Highway 1 at Mount Lehman Road in Abbotsford is proving to be a model for communities in B.C. and Alberta with its compact form.

The startling sales success - and price increases - at one of the most expensive oceanfront projects in B.C. suggests that reports on the death of the high-end west coast recreational market may be exaggerated.

Rising mortgage rates have cooled a five-year run of acquisitions - and rising share values - of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the residential market.