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Opinion: Housing is a struggle and governments about to make it worse

Opinion: Housing is a struggle and governments about to make it worse

Four new rules – including one now in effect in B.C. – will be costly, complicated and do nothing to alleviate the low supply or high price of housing in Canada
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Opinion: How to handle an unsolicited offer for your business

Opinion: How to handle an unsolicited offer for your business

While it is exciting and flattering to get the call, how you handle the process can make a big difference in the outcome
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Opinion: How building owners can manage insurance costs

Opinion: How building owners can manage insurance costs

Experienced property manager tells how to navigate the costly and challenging world of insurance on commercial real estate property
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Opinion: Vacancy control, rate caps ultimately harm B.C. renters

Opinion: Vacancy control, rate caps ultimately harm B.C. renters

The chief executive officer of LandlordBC notes that disallowing rental increases at vacancy would be the ‘death knell’ for new rental construction
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Land costs lead to conversions and multiple-storey self-storage

Land costs lead to conversions and multiple-storey self-storage

Converting existing buildings to self-storage can also be ticket to overcoming high land and construction costs, expert says
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Opinion: Patience, please, during multi-tenant cost adjustments

Opinion: Patience, please, during multi-tenant cost adjustments

Everyone involved in the sale of multi-tenant commercial property must wait until the final occupancy costs are revealed
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Opinion: Verbal real estate negotiations can lead to misunderstandings

Opinion: Verbal real estate negotiations can lead to misunderstandings

A verbal offer is more of a fishing expedition than the type of written and verified agreement that lands a successful transaction, veteran agent says
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Opinion: Multi-generational landlords need asset and property managers

Opinion: Multi-generational landlords need asset and property managers

Many Canadian multi-family rental portfolios were built 50 to 60 years ago and now must prepare for a new generation of family owners
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OPINION: Vancouver’s Broadway Plan: opportunities and the unknown

OPINION: Vancouver’s Broadway Plan: opportunities and the unknown

More than half the properties along Broadway will need to be assembled to meet the minimum frontage required for redevelopment under the plan
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OPINION: Spare us the stupid ideas to fix the housing problem

OPINION: Spare us the stupid ideas to fix the housing problem

No, a cooling-off period, teeny-tiny houses, punitive taxes or $500,000 suites for the homeless won’t create more affordable housing in British Columbia
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