Real Estate
After almost three months on the market, the priciest residential property to sell last week finally went for almost 81 percent of the $3.9-million list price. The 4,100-square-foot single-family home, which faces a park in Vancouver’s South Granville neighbourhood, was...
As developers struggle with weak condo sales, here come renters to the rescue No matter how old you are, the incredible real estate boom that inflated home prices across B.C. has made housing unaffordable. But few people feel this pressure more acutely than the millennial generation, whose growing desire for mobility and freedom...
Address: 8596 Squilax Anglemont Road, St. Ives Price: $3,895,000 Listing: 10177717 The skinny: Four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 5,860-square-foot house on Shuswap Lake The bling: You may recall the old riddle: As I was going to St. IvesI met a man with seven wivesEvery wife had seven sacksEvery...
The most expensive property sold last week was in West Vancouver, fetching just over 85 percent of the $5.68-million list price, according to data analyzed by Vancouver-based Zolo Realty on behalf of BCBusiness. On 14,294 square feet of land in...
You might expect that a $4.5-million home sold last week would be located in the affluent west side of Vancouver or across Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver. In fact, the most expensive property was in Langley’s Salmon River area, according to...
Address: 8200 Kalavista Drive, Coldstream Price: $11,500,000 Listing: 10183262 The skinny: Six-bedroom, nine-bathroom (plus three powder rooms), 9,585-square-foot house on Kalamalka Lake in Coldstream The bling: So here’s a mansion on the shores of Kalamalka Lake, south of Vernon. It’s big and impressive. Add...
The most expensive property to sell last week was a four-bedroom, five-bathroom single family residence on 1.28 acres in the Central Okanagan, according to data analyzed by Vancouver-based Zolo Realty on behalf of BCBusiness. With more than 5,200 square feet...
At a time when landmarks are being mowed down for real estate projects, it's become trendy to pay homage to the former. We pulled together a few examples of this marketing spin: Location: 16th and Arbutus, Vancouver Formerly: The Ridge movie theatre...
In the years following the housing crash, the mortgage lending industry was left in a state of flux. Distrust was rampant, approvals were slow, terms were tight, and, according to Taylor Little, the industry needed to change. A lawyer by...
Sales activity started to pick up a in mid-September with properties that had sat over the summer finally selling after the back-to-school rush. The most-expensive sale was a seven-bedroom, six-bathroom home in Vancouver’s Arbutus neighbourhood, according to data analyzed by...