Are you going away for the holidays? How about for a weekend visit with family? You could pay for all your gift shopping simply by letting someone stay at your place while you’re away!
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Fun for all the family this winter
The festive season is a special time for families, friends, and neighbours alike. Vancouver bursts to life at this time of year providing fantastic events for everyone to enjoy. Here are the highlights!
Richmond real estate prices finally succumb to the market slowdown
This real estate update is focused on the City of Richmond. Real estate is local and even though Vancouver and Toronto are in the news that doesn’t help people living in sub-markets like Richmond. The fact that luxury downtown condos aren’t as well as quickly doesn’t have much bearing on Richmond.
Which candidates for Vancouver Mayor are most likely to solve housing
Vancouver is in a terrible housing crisis and it’s tearing the city apart pitting neighbour against neighbour, and parents against their kids.
Most candidates for mayor promise bold new measures to build more of the “right kind of housing” but each of them has different ideas about the definition of “right kind of housing”. In this article we dig into their proposals and promises and help you compare them objectively.
Ask for Urban Family Districts
The City of Vancouver recently announced the beginning of 18 months of consultation that will result in a “Making Room” rezoning which is intended to find neighbourhoods to add more duplexes and laneway homes. Making room implies, there isn’t room already and this is far from the truth. Vancouver has loads of space, but it is poorly used. Vancouver’s land use has barely changed since we paved over the orchards and farms to build suburbs south of the downtown core after WWI. Rather than just “Making Room”, it’s time for Vancouver to evolve from Citified Suburbia with families stuffed in laneway houses and basement suites to a network of purposefully designed “Urban Family Districts”.
Burnaby real estate update
This real estate update is focused on the City of Burnaby. Real estate is local and even though Vancouver and Toronto are in the news that doesn’t help people living in sub-markets like Burnaby. The fact that luxury downtown Vancouver condos aren’t as well as quickly doesn’t have much bearing on Burnaby.
Surrey Real Estate Update
This real estate update is focused on the City of Surrey. Real estate is local and even though Vancouver and Toronto are in the news that doesn’t help people living in sub-markets like Surrey. The fact that luxury downtown condos aren’t selling as quickly doesn’t have much bearing on Surrey.
We need to build the right kind of housing
45% of homes proposed in the City of Vancouver are suites and 1-bedrooms suitable only for small households. Barely any 3-bedroom apartments are built when 24% of new apartments in Metro Vancouver should have 4-bedrooms. We need to more homes and the right mix of homes fast or else by 2020, 100,000 hard-working people will be underhoused.