British Columbia

Industrial real estate speculators in the Lower Mainland are facing higher vacancies as a glut of new space has collided with a downturn in leasing activity.

The Vancouver-based developer spending $100 million on infrastructure for the largest development on Vancouver Island says choosing the Comox Valley for the "instant town" was a no-brainer.

Buyers lined up for three days in Richmond last month for a chance to purchase a new condominium, while, a week earlier, more than 400 buyers crowded into a New Westminster pre-construction sales office and snapped up $50 million worth of new apartme

The proposed Site C dam in northeast B.C. has moved to the first stage of an environmental review, and the price tag has ballooned to almost $8 billion. BC Hydro says an updated design for the dam shows the project would cost $7.

A construction boom is being seen around SkyTrain stations in Metro Vancouver.

Canada Safeway has called for bids from 50 developers, mostly in B.C., to purchase a 43-acre parcel of land it has for sale in Burnaby.

Despite media reports of million-dollar house prices, the real price for a detached house in most of Metro Vancouver is less than $600,000 and the price of a condominium the average buyer is looking for is less than $315,000, according to a detailed

The Beedie Group is preparing for the construction of the largest single-level warehouse ever to be built in the Lower Mainland in one phase. The 504,000-square-foot facility for tissue-maker Kruger Inc.

The loud B.C. housing boom that has made Vancouver the most expensive market in Canada quickly falls silent once you get out of town. A driver heading southeast from the west side of Vancouver, where prices surpassed $1.

Fears of rising land and lease costs and the low cost of borrowing continue to drive demand for strata industrial space across Metro Vancouver, according to a report from Avison Young.