Reading Time: 3 minutes To take pressure off the cost of living in Vancouver, the city should build more housing units on its limited geographic footprint
Tag: BC real estate
Let’s make room for skilled workers in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing costs remain high, and rental vacancy rates stay razor-thin, the region may soon be out of reach to locals and newcomers alike
B.C.’s interest-free loans could hurt new homebuyers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stoking demand for housing without a significant increase in housing stock will likely do more harm than good
Rule of law under attack in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes By imposing a tax on already signed agreements, B.C. is demonstrating a worrisome indifference to the rule of law
Two reasons why average families in Vancouver can’t afford housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Vancouver area’s sky-high real estate market looks even more inflated when seen in conjunction with the city’s below-average incomes
Foreign purchase tax ignores crucial source of housing unaffordability
Reading Time: 4 minutes A tax on foreign buyers may seem like an easy fix but it ignores the fact the housing supply is not keeping up with demand
China’s ‘one-percenters’ have changed Vancouver forever
Reading Time: 3 minutes Millennials would like to buy a house and raise a family in Vancouver. It’s not going to happen
Houston provides affordable housing example for Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reducing red tape allows for innovative solutions to housing for growing populations, ultimately lowering housing costs
Vancouver’s housing bubble just keeps on swelling
Reading Time: 3 minutes But the ‘Big Housing Short’ is looming