Vancouver’s Most Expensive Properties

The names and sums behind the richest land deals in recent Vancouver history.

The names and sums behind the richest land deals in recent Vancouver history.

Andrea Eng, the subject of a 2008 BCBusiness profile, “The Zen of Andrea Eng,” made her name as a commercial real estate broker at the epicentre of a city that, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, was being bought up by Hong Kong investors to the tune of $3 billion annually. With the local property prices stalling as the global financial system checks its vital signs, now may be a good time to look back at some of the biggest real estate transactions of the past 20 months, whether in a spirit of bliss, perplexity or Schadenfreude.