While investors in the housing and rental markets are making huge returns, racialized newcomers and immigrants are struggling to find stable, affordable housing, which is a human right.
View More Housing: A Boom for Investors, Inaccessible Bust for Newcomers
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
Singapore billionaire Oei Hong Leong wins latest round against Terry Hui’s Concord Pacific over Vancouver’s prized waterfront property.
View More Inside Vancouver’s Battle of the Asian Property Tycoons
With fewer arrivals to Canada because of the pandemic, 2020 has been a year like no other for Canadian housing markets.
View More Immigration Slowdown Shakes Real Estate Market to the Core
With home prices rising across the country, many of us would likely assume that housing costs (including rent and mortgage payments) are the most expensive budget item for the average Canadian family. In reality, however,…
View More Taxes are the Canadian Family’s Largest Expense
Critics are looking at Quebec’s so-called “sweetheart deal” on immigrant investors the wrong way. Instead of complaining about Quebec other provinces and territories should be demanding equality. A June 23 article by Peter O’Neil in…
View More Let’s Discuss Investor Sweetheart Deals for All Provinces
The foreign-ownership and housing affordability debate is currently the most reported and talked about socio-political issue in the City of Vancouver. Truthfully, for those of us who care immensely about this city’s future, it is…
View More Name Calling in Vancouver
Canada’s falling loonie has added extra dollars to the pockets of residents who rely on financial assistance from abroad. Foreign investors in real estate and local exporters are also enjoying benefits from the dip in…
View More Falling Dollar Benefits Some Immigrants, Industries
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
Within the animal kingdom, there are few images more compellingly grotesque than the Rat King. A cluster of vermin that has been fused together through blood, dirt, and excrement, the Rat King is a harbinger…
View More History repeating itself in Vancouver