Real Estate
Address: 19870 3B Avenue, Langley Price: $6,500,000 Listing: R2426692 The skinny: Eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 13,289 square feet, 87,120-square-foot property The bling: “What the world needs now,” sang Jackie de Shannon, “is love, sweet love” Not to disagree with Jackie—she makes a good point—but what the...
Address: 585 Beaver Creek Road, Beaverdekk, B.C. Price: $5,679,000 Listing: 10181389 The skinny: Four bedrooms, four bathrooms, 5548 square feet, 670 acre ranch. The bling: Looking for the perfect getaway? How about a place that doesn’t even exist? Getaways don’t any more away than that. The location of...
Address: 20818 Mcdougald Road, Summerland Price: $5,200,000 Listing: 180598 The skinny: Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, 3,600-square-foot house, 13-acre lakefront property The bling: Do you like wine? A glass of wine with dinner? A bottle of wine with friends? Five acres of grapes in your yard? (Some...
Editor’s note: This story, the cover feature from our February issue, explores how Indigenous people in B.C. are finding their way to prosperity through economic reconciliation. At the time of publication, writer Steven Threndyle had been following the four-year-long Wet’suwet’en blockade...
CleanBC, the province’s climate action plan, outlines a range of policies and actions intended to drive down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and help bring B.C. closer to its target of reducing carbon pollution 40 percent below 2007 levels by 2030. It’s an ambitious...
Address: 2403 Rocky Point Road, Blind Bay Price: $5,495,000 Listing: 10163921 The skinny: Two-bedroom, one-bathroom home, located on 4.62 acres on Shuswap Lake The bling: Want to get away from it all? No, seriously. On the run from paparazzi, TV cameras, the Buckingham Palace Guard, your grandmother-in-law? You couldn’t...
The first week of February saw brisk activity in B.C. real estate markets, according to data analyzed by Vancouver-based Zolo Realty on behalf of BCBusiness. The most expensive property to sell last week was a single-family home in South Okanagan community of...
Buyer beware? In B.C., it’s more like buyer despair. The province’s volatile housing market has led to a drop in prices, but affordability remains a problem. Even with low unemployment and rising wages, owning a home remains out of reach...
After sitting on the market for 111 days, the most expensive property to sell last week was a modern single-family home in Vancouver’s exclusive Point Grey neighbourhood. Built in 2016, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house sold for 85 percent of the $6.25-million list price...
Surprisingly, the highest-priced property to sell last week wasn't a single-family detached home. Although houses are still in demand across B.C., the most expensive was a three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo in the popular Yaletown neighbourhood in downtown Vancouver. The condo, which was built in 1995, stayed on the market for just over a...