British Columbia

Denver experience gives indication of potential demand: 1,700 producers leased "functionally obsolete industrial space"

Net number of immigrants down 66% in the first half of this year By Frank O’Brien As a panel discussion on foreign home ownership prepares to convene this week in Vancouver, latest statistics show that international immigration to B.C.

Aging rentals a third of total B.C.

No tenants in place: Three new downtown office projects (from top) the East Tower, Burrard Place and the Ormidale Block – are underway with no preleasing.

Sixty-one year old apartment building in Vancouver’s Fairview area recently sold for $3.6 million, or $360,000 per suite.

Bradian: buyers want to sell town for $1.2 million By Wendy Fraser Seven months after a group of Chinese investors purchased it, the for sale sign has gone up again on the Bridge River Valley ghost town of Bradian.

Entire inventory could be gone within four years Frank O’Brien Four years after Metro Vancouver report warned that the region would run out of industrial land by 2020, that timeline appears to have been pushed forward.

Rendering of BC Hydro’s first 1,600-person high-end work camp planned for the Site C construction site near Fort St. John.

Avison Young principal Bal Atwal: land values have outpaced property and income values. - Rob Kruyt.

Spiked linked to housing sales Retail spending in B.C., clocking in at more than $5.8 billion a month, is leading the entire nation in growth and has put once-market-leading Alberta deep in the shade.