While skyrocketing home prices are making it hard for newcomers to buy a home, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some options to help first-time buyers in three major Canadian cities.
View More Helping First-Time Homebuyers Navigate Hot Real Estate Market
It’s been 2 months since a massive 4.8 million dollar chandelier was unveiled under the Granville Bridge, and many articles have been written criticizing the developer, Westbank Corp., for hanging the chandelier over the homeless people of Vancouver. Many people are asking the same question: “What could have done with that money for homeless people?”
View More What Spins, Weighs 3.4 Tonnes and Insults Vancouver’s Homeless?Shahzad Shamim recently settled in Canada with his family – three school-aged children, a wife and a mother – after emigrating from the United Arab Emirates. Instead of renting an apartment or a condo, though,…
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Every city has its own urban legend. Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified claim, Canadian…
View More Vancouver and Unaffordable Housing: A Global Issue
Every city has its own urban legend. Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified claim, Canadian opinion makers and media have…
View More Vancouver and Unaffordable Housing Part 2: A Tale of Many Cities
Every city has its own urban legend. Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified claim, Canadian opinion makers and media have…
View More Vancouver and Unaffordable Housing Part 3: Solutions or Scapegoats?
Every city has its own urban legend. Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified claim, Canadian opinion makers and media have…
View More Vancouver and Unaffordable Housing Part 4: Lots of Statistics, and a Few Lies
Every city has its own urban legend. Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified claim, Canadian opinion makers and media have…
View More Vancouver and Unaffordable Housing Part 5: The China Factor
New promises by the governing federal Conservatives to investigate the relationship between rising housing prices and foreign investment in Vancouver may resonate with local voters this fall, but experts aren’t convinced that this issue is…
View More Divided Views on Foreign Investment in B.C. Homes