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Weekly Buzz: Construction, navigating the residential market, and the big deal

Weekly Buzz: Construction, navigating the residential market, and the big deal

Western Investor's media content roundup for the week of Dec. 19 to Dec 23, 2016, featuring top stories from WI and REW.ca
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Weekly Buzz: Property purchases and tax increases

Weekly Buzz: Property purchases and tax increases

Western Investor's media content roundup for the week of Dec. 12 to Dec 16, 2016, featuring top stories from WI, Vancouver Courier and more
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Weekly Buzz: Real estate reports galore, featuring B.C. Assessment, REBGV and CBRE

Weekly Buzz: Real estate reports galore, featuring B.C. Assessment, REBGV and CBRE

Western Investor's media content roundup for the week of Dec. 5 to Dec 9, 2016, featuring top stories from WI, REW.ca and more
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Top real estate agent: Foreign buyer tax won't stop Chinese investment

Top real estate agent: Foreign buyer tax won't stop Chinese investment

Tina Mak says the 15 per cent tax has slowed but not stalled the attraction of China-based residential investors to Vancouver
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Weekly Buzz: CMHC’s new rental vacancy report and government policy changes

Weekly Buzz: CMHC’s new rental vacancy report and government policy changes

Western Investor's media content roundup for the week of Nov. 28 to Dec 2, 2016, featuring top stories from WI, Business in Vancouver and more
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End the unfair, unprecedented government attack on home ownership

End the unfair, unprecedented government attack on home ownership

Hard-working Canadians striving to own a home are stressed and threatened by misguided and disastrous policies from all three levels of government
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First Nation titles free from B.C. foreign tax

First Nation titles free from B.C. foreign tax

However, the 15 per cent foreign buyer tax in Metro Vancouver does apply to non-reserve residential real estate titles held by First Nations
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Weekly Buzz: Vancouver's lucrative commercial markets, more Trump and cohousing

Weekly Buzz: Vancouver's lucrative commercial markets, more Trump and cohousing

Western Investor's media content roundup for the week of Nov. 21 to Nov. 25, 2016, featuring top stories from the Financial Post, Vancouver Courier and more
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Investing "dinosaurs" must use data or die out

Investing "dinosaurs" must use data or die out

Commercial real estate players are urged to embrace data to compete in today’s competitive market, but the message is lost on many old-school investors who rely on intuition
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Weekly Buzz: Post-Trump effects on Canadian real estate

Weekly Buzz: Post-Trump effects on Canadian real estate

Will mortgage rates rise? Will there be increased Chinese investment? In the first of WI's weekly roundups, we narrow down some key articles surrounding Trump's impact on the industry
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