British Columbia

What are expected to be heated hearings opened last month as the federal government weighs a decision to allow the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project to proceed.

The British Columbia economy ranks fifth in Canada but it is number one in environmental quality and health services, according to the latest and last study by the BC Progress Board. B.C.

Real estate speculators are apparently targeting Kitimat, the B.C. northern port city that would be the western terminus of the proposed $6.6 billion Northern Gateway pipeline. The town is also near a new $4.

Canada Safeway Ltd.'s former distribution complex in Burnaby now belongs to Ledingham McAllister. The Vancouver developer acquired the 48-acre site from Safeway on December 15 for approximately $125 million.

They may soon see those big-spending mining days return, if the backers of the $800 million open-pit Ajax Mine have their way.

Approximately two million square feet of suburban office space is sitting vacant, representing more than two-thirds of all the vacant offices in Metro Vancouver, according to a report from Avison Young.

A bid to build Metro Vancouver's largest shopping mall on former Agricultural Land Reserve near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in South Delta appears a done deal after members of the Tsawwassen First Nations voted last week to proceed.

Vancouver 's housing market is a bubble that is about to deflate. The Vancouver housing bubble is a myth and average home prices will continue to increase in 2012.

As hearings into the controversial Gateway pipeline open in Kitimat, real estate specualtors are apparently voting with their wallets. Last year, housing sales in the nothern port city more than doubled and the total dollar volume hit $29.

When Port Coquitlam became the first municipality in Canada to mandate green roofs on large commercial buildings in 2006, developers were skeptical.