British Columbia

Cheap mortgages, high rents, low vacancies and soaring property values combine for blue-chip real estate investment By Frank O’Brien Metro Vancouver multi-family landlords are basking in a confluence of factors that make owning old apartment building

Buyers cram into the Evolve condo sales site in Surrey: 300 condos sold in 90 minutes.

Few other goodies for real estate market, analysts say Dr. Sherry Cooper of Dominion Lending Centres: boost in tax-free savings could help homebuyers save for a downpayment By Frank O’Brien If you give, so shall you save.

Combining adjacent houses into a land play can double the lot value By Frank O’Brien “They flew all the way from Taiwan to give me a hug.

By Frank O’Brien The 10.5-nautical-mile BC Ferries ride between West Vancouver and Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast equates to an average house price difference of more than $150,000 per mile.

An old gas station site at Cambie Street and West 41 Avenue, Vancouver, sold for $15.8 million.

$500 per square foot: the price paid for this older industrial building on West 3rd Avenue in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

By Tyler Orton Vancouver-based Avigilon is ready to pay Telus $42 million for a Robson Street office tower.

Glacier retreats made the development of the Red Mountain gold mine possible and brought other resources to light By Nelson Bennetyt Researchers who have been able to study frozen mammoths and Stone Age mummies thanks to retreating glaciers aren’t th

Self-storage is becoming a hot commercial real estate sector, with many B.C. properties seeing 90 per cent occupancy levels and per-square-foot rents that match that of a condominium.