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Where to buy Canada’s cheapest homes

Across Metro Vancouver, the typical house price is $937,000, or about eight times higher than the lowest priced cities in Canada.

Shell backs huge LNG plant on northwest coast

Thousands of construction workers may be seeing more work this year in northwest British Columbia, as a consortium of resource giants, including Shell Canada, are planning a $12 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Kitimat.

Metro land sales nudge record

Metro Vancouver sales of real estate assets valued at more than $1 million hit a near-record level in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey by RealNet Canada Inc.

Condo investors find incentives

Surrey condominium developers are offering some sweet incentives to pre-sell new condos to investors who now account for a huge share of sales.

Squamish gondola will climb Chief

A proposal by the private Sea to Sky Gondola to build a $20 million gondola up Mount Habrich next to Squamish's Stawamus Chief rock face is expected to be approved and built according to Sea to Sky Gondola principal Trevor Dunn.

Burnaby: Think big

Most analysts expect industrial lease rates, vacancy rates and sales volume to be fairly flat this year in Burnaby in comparison with 2010 and 2011. Offices on spec The office sector should provide some thrills over the next few years, however.

Court approves Tobiano sale

The Tobiano golf course near Kamloops, once hailed as the best new golf course in Canada, is on the open market after the Business Development Bank of Canada won court approval for the sale.

Spec builder bucks trend in Prince George

Developer and realtor Rod McLeod is leading a $40 million gamble in Prince George, but he believes in the potential payoff in his hometown.

Transit-linked offices worth 22.8 per cent more

There is a hefty premium for Metro Vancouver office rents close to Canada Line or Skytrain stations: nearly 23 per cent, according to a study by Jones Lang Lasalle.

Potential cottage buyers would sacrifice for dream

Many Canadians would cut back on discretionary spending, buy with friends or buy a lakefront lot and build later – anything to get their own vacation cottage, according to a survey this spring by Royal LePage Real Estate Services.