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How global climate change could affect our local real estate markets

How global climate change could affect our local real estate markets

With extreme weather events displacing residents and diverting immigrants, temperate cities such as ours could be in much hotter demand in the coming decades
Understanding triple-net leases and how they're killing the soul of Vancouver

Understanding triple-net leases and how they're killing the soul of Vancouver

‘Highest and best use’ assessment policy equally problematic
Why small B.C. commercial property owners should appeal their 2020 assessments

Why small B.C. commercial property owners should appeal their 2020 assessments

You have until January 31 to appeal, and here’s why you should, according to a former BC Assessment auditor
Commercial real estate financing: innovation can make or break a deal

Commercial real estate financing: innovation can make or break a deal

Sometimes innovative funding strategies such as these are needed to fund or close a commercial real estate transaction, advises expert
Real estate can’t do all the economy’s heavy lifting

Real estate can’t do all the economy’s heavy lifting

Commercial and residential real estate should be on the fourth or fifth line of Canada’s economic growth, not the dominant player in the game
Rental crisis cries for return of investor tax incentives

Rental crisis cries for return of investor tax incentives

The 45-year-old MURB program harnessed the private sector to deliver many of the affordable rental apartments still in use today
Constrained geography stokes tensions on Metro Vancouver’s home front

Constrained geography stokes tensions on Metro Vancouver’s home front

Region’s office and industrial sectors face limitations, but it’s housing where the shortage is most acute
Rental investor confidence points to rising market

Rental investor confidence points to rising market

Higher rents, lower vacancies, bigger returns will continue to characterize Metro Vancouver’s multi-family rental sector into 2020
Timing of new Vancouver rental housing proposals questionable

Timing of new Vancouver rental housing proposals questionable

City of Vancouver staff has its work cut out for them, simultaneously embarking on extensive and expensive city-wide planning process
B.C. rental shortage should spur multi-family investments

B.C. rental shortage should spur multi-family investments

Landlords have opportunity to reposition existing Vancouver rental properties, or buy and build in sub-markets to capture accelerating demand