Funding is a combination of federal and provincial money and is aimed, in part, at helping speed new real estate development

With prices starting in mid-$200’s and new UBC campus being built nearby, new 34-storey Mission Group tower should draw rental investors

Province’s $1.5 billion pitch falls short on the immediate needs of many small businesses, says Canadian Federation of Independent Business

Vancouver development will blend 200 rental apartments with a mix of industrial and office strata space on a one-acre site at Main Street and East First Avenue

Insurance premiums for B.C. multi-family rental buildings have soared as much as 100 per cent this year while allowable rental increases are frozen

Vancouver’s population of more than 2,000 homeless is rising rapidly and council is eying radical measures as crime complaints skyrocket

Melissa Carson – who donated hundreds of home-made meals to truckers during the pandemic lockdown – honoured in Saskatchewan’s largest business awards

August sales were up 56 per cent in the Fraser Valley and 63 per cent in Chilliwack as price increases hit double-digits

Manitoba Crime Stoppers site lists tools, ATVs, even tractors stolen from rural properties with many of the crimes unsolved after more than three years

The 81,500-square-foot space would allow Seaspan Victoria Shipyards to amalgamate its supply-chain operations on one site at Colwood

T&T Supermarket has resumed temperature checks at stores across Canada as COVID-19 cases increase

It is not just B.C.: housing sales and personal savings have surged across Canada during ‘asymmetric’ recession

A Vancouver citizens group claims an estimated $360 million spent each year to address homelessness, drug addiction and mental health has had little success

While renting is sometimes the only option, ranchers find “the good land is the cheap land and the low-quality land is the expensive land”

B.C.Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced that, effective immediately, all liquor sales in bars must end by 10 p.m., and all nightclubs must close

The federal government is extending the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program for small businesses by one month.

Residential rental rate freeze ends in December but landlords will have to keep rental increases at low level into next year, province says

Pandemic-hammered hotel occupancy has plunged to 35 per cent and revenue per available room has dropped nearly 70 per cent from the same period in 2019

DIY-concept cuts the price on new Vancouver condos where young buyers are expected to finish the rest of the space

Surety bonds allow developers to finance a project without facing borrowing limits or cash reserves in an idea that started in Calgary

Leading indicator of commercial real estate fell for the fourth quarter in a row for the second-worst performance in more than two decades

Saskatchewan building a stake in unique resource sector that is vital to modern technology, and currently dominated by China

Alberta has nearly half the legal cannabis stores in the country and its $46.7 million in June sales was second only to Ontario

Malaysia-linked TA Hotel Management declares assets of $1.1 million against $4.7 million in liabilities as Vancouver’s Trump hotel shuts down

Medicine Hat is offering homebuilders grants of up to $25,000 when they build on selected infill lots in the southwestern Alberta city

Trump International Hotel & Tower has permanently closed the Trump hotel, which has been shuttered since April due to COVID-19

As big shopping centres tentatively open from COVID-19 restrictions, owners are redefining redevelopment to capture and extend the value of the real estate beyond retail

Vancouver began here on a foundation of vision and hard work and now a new wave of real estate investors and philanthropists hope to reclaim its mean streets

If a vaccine is discovered and if there is no virus second-wave lockdown, B.C. projected to match the nation and lead the West into a post-pandemic recovery

Canadian June retail sales soared 23.7 per cent from a month earlier to $53 billion, topping pre-pandemic levels, with Alberta posting the fourth-highest increase in the ...

The majority of Alberta’s 300-plus courses opened in May and Alberta Golf claims most are the busiest they have been for the past five to 10 years

Victoria has a fraction of the office space as Edmonton, but B.C.’s capital is outperforming Alberta’s in vacancy rates, lease rates, construction and even sales volume this ...

With the right policies, Canada’s resource and manufacturing industries could create 2.6 million new jobs, increase Canada’s GDP by 17 per cent and secure the country’s ...

Natural ventilation, wellness studio, on-site dining, advanced tech and short-term leases reflect concerns about coming back to the office

More than half the investor dollars spent on the city’s commercial real estate this year flowed into rental apartment buildings, at nearly $500 million, but the outlook is ...

June cottage sales were double the pace of a year earlier with multiple bids seen at some popular lakefront destinations

Despite leasing slowdown in teeth of virus crisis, industry confident that 15 new office towers will proceed in Vancouver’s core and complete by 2024

A $190 million industrial build in the Fraser Valley a concrete symbol of China's intention to make Canada a "belt and road" country – but it is also a target of local and ...

Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg post double-digit increases as Canadian home sales rebound due to record low mortgage rates and pent-up demand

The price of gold has increased 30 per cent so far this year, but farmland has traditionally proven the best investment over the long term because of a steady income stream

Thousands of tenants who applied for provincial rent relief will have to pony up the full rent on September 1, but rent increases remain frozen until year-end

Powell River’s paper mill has been shut down since April but the coastal town posted B.C.'s highest home price increase in July with a 30 per cent hike from a year earlier....

Five-year mortgages at 1.89 per cent as Bank of Canada cuts rates for mortgage stress test for second time this year

Mixed-use housing and commercial development planned for the aging hospital property on Burrard Street, with sales proceed helping to fund replacement

A dramatic Whistler lakefront chateau; a 2,300-acre ranch within the city of Vernon; and 90 acres on Texada Island among rare listings for those seeking an ultimate retreat ...

A recent U.S. study showed a 47 per cent productivity increase in 2020, despite the coronavirus lockdown and the ensuing increase in working from home.

Restaurants Canada estimates the industry could lose as much as $44.8 billion in annual sales compared to 2019, and says more than half of its membership is operating at a ...

Province got a good deal according to vendor, who claims he sold below a higher bid on the waterfront parcels.

Strata owners may find their business near worthless when a mixed-use building is sold for demolition and re-development

Home prices on Bowen Island and the Sunshine Coast have increased more than three times faster than in Greater Vancouver since COVID-19 detected in February

Finding an island waterfront retreat – or investment – need not break the bank as these active listings show

Permanent store closures pockmark Canada’s retail sector despite reports of a promising sales recovery in May and June

Innovative condo concept in Port Moody would see some units sold as rent-to-own and others divided into lock-offs for income-producing rentals

The B.C. government accounted for one-third of the sales and more than half the dollar volume in Canada hotel transactions during the second quarter

More than 5,400 employed on three energy projects but 13,000 more workers needed by 2021 – and a labour shortage could loom within two years

RioCan has posted a $350 million loss; Choice Properties saw its asset value drop by $380 million in Q2

With near-zero evictions allowed and rent increases frozen, some B.C. landlords are being forced to the wall

No oil drilling rigs have been working in Saskatchewan since mid-March. The only rig working in July was drilling for helium

Developers are transforming historic industrial and commercial sites in the centre of B.C.'s capital city

Mukund Mohan, chief technology officer of BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc., was taken into custody July 23 in Washington state accused of money laundering and wire fraud

Flin Flon’s 92-year old mine is closing, but Hudbay confirms plans to restart the New Britannia gold mill at Snow Lake

Up to nine luxury homes in Metro Vancouver are booked to go under the auctioneer’s gavel this August as online selling tries a traditional twist

Gen-Xers lead the boomerang, but 278,000 baby boomers also say they will move back in with family to shelter from COVID-19 fallout

The first two sections will lay 140 km. of natural gas pipeline between Groundbirch and McLoed lake in Northern B.C

Properties will be valued and taxed as if it’s 2018, not reflecting the lower prices on some due to the pandemic, tax expert says

The total dollar volume of Edmonton apartment buildings sold in the first half more than doubled to $463 million, compared to same period in 2019.

With hotel revenues crashing and travel and conference restrictions expected to linger, now could be a prime time to consider transforming a hotel to rental housing, analyst ...

Grant to UBC’s ‘Generation Squeeze’ cited as opening gambit towards a capital gains tax on private homes

Three-year court battle ends in decision that city’s ‘impact fees’ were an invalid tax on residential development

As B.C. opens up with non-essential travel, Tofino may be the safest, healthiest destination in the province

Multi-family financing five-year funding at unprecedented 1.3 per cent and and “we could slide further into uncharted depths” if downturn persists

Calgary shares in a national upturn in sales but its home prices are down from last year and remain among lowest among Canada’s big cities

Neighbouring businesses, police battle spike in vandalism, burglaries and gun threats after hotels bought to house Victoria homeless

The B.C. Ministry of Health will spend at least $4.4 billion over the next three to five years on 13 major hospital construction projects, according to B.C. Finance Minister ...

Home sales and prices rising faster in the Okanagan, Island than in Greater Vancouver, which some see as a pandemic reaction

Trophy properties (including bargain waterfront listings) are highlighted in the August edition of Western Investor

Cratering of travel and tourism action has persuaded many owners of short-term rentals to rent properties on long-term leases

At $25 million per acre for residential assemblies, the resulting strata units could be priced well above current market values

First green loan approved: no financial break on the funding but it offers developer an opportunity to signal environmental credentials

Okanagan city the outlier as province-wide new home construction flatlined in June and fell in Vancouver, according to CMHC

Regina’s home prices are less than a third that of Vancouver but prices in the Saskatchewan capital will increase faster this year, forecast says

The easing of the eviction ban does not include evictions for non-payment of rent but does cover eviction orders that pre-date COVID-19

Housing sales are down 30 per cent from 2019 but average home price up slightly to $329,364

But ban on commercial evictions remains in place for those landlords who don’t tap into government aid package

Canada’s REITs suffered a body blow in March but they represent an “outstanding buy opportunity” right now, a Toronto-based analyst contends

Five-year fixed-rates as low as 1.9 per cent, but near-free money arrives as mortgage debt and deferrals soar

Construction has started on a giant Lowe’s distribution centre near the Calgary International Airport.

An average of 55 homes sold every day during the month as determined buyers rolled through pandemic restrictions