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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'Our people were terrorized': Coastal GasLink releases new details, images of attack on worksite

'Our people were terrorized': Coastal GasLink releases new details, images of attack on worksite

The company building the Coastal GasLink pipeline across Northern B.C. has released new images and details about a violent attack on a worksite near Houston.
OPINION: Government red tape strangles Red Seal training

OPINION: Government red tape strangles Red Seal training

The following op-ed by Chris Gardner examines the February 14 trades announcement by the B.C. NDP Government.