In the pink: Giant Vernon waterfront estate up for sale John MackieThe Province Realtor Mark Lester specializes in selling unique properties. “I’ve sold waterfront estates, I’ve sold private islands,” said Lester. “I sold the Douglas Lake Ranch. I’ve sold forestry land, I’ve sold golf courses, marinas.” The common thread is that the properties are so unusual […]
BCREA May housing market activity BCREA The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 4,518residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service®(MLS®) in May2020, a decline of 45.2per cent from May2019. The average MLS® residential price in BC was $728,898, a3.2per cent increase from $706,394recorded the previous year. Total […]
BC developer to acquire troubled Toronto condo site Kelsey Pudloski Livabl On Friday, Vancouver-based developer Concord Pacific announced it had acquired ownership of The Clover on Yonge, one of three under-construction condominium projects by Cresford Development Corporation to enter into receivership. Concord Pacific confirmed to The Toronto Star that it had agreed to the terms set […]
The assessment Appeal Board reports a spike in appeals in both 2019 and 2020 to more than 5,000 annually Derek Holloway Western Investor There’s nothing like an economic meltdown to expose a skewed property assessment system in British Columbia’s commercial real estate market. Many B.C. communities have looming 2020 budget shortfalls that could have been […]
The credit score will change from 600 to 680 Clayton JarvisMortgage Broker News As with most announcements from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the rollout of the organization’s new underwriting guidelines on June 4 has kicked off a storm of criticism, confusion and anxiety. Of the three changes to be implemented on July 1 […]
Home prices fall 10% from pre-pandemic market Sean MacKayLivabl Average Canadian home prices are projected to fall 10 percent from their pre-pandemic levels as high unemployment, rent declines and mortgage payment struggles caused by COVID-19’s economic impacts take their toll. The forecast from Capital Economics’ Senior Canada Economist Stephen Brown arrives at the end of […]
Genworth (and Canada Guaranty) vs CMHC: Good for the mortgage industry Clayton JarvisMortgage Broker News Canadians of all stripes were blindsided on June 4, when the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation suddenly revised certain key underwriting guidelines. The story got a little more interesting on Monday, when CMHC’s competitors in the mortgage insurance space, Genworth […]
Watchdog probe reveals Quadriga mystery was simply a case of old-fashioned fraud Barbara Shecter The Vancouver Sun Following the death of the founder of Canadian digital currency platform QuadrigaCx, investigators at Canada’s biggest securities regulator dug into the mysterious case that had stranded more than $200 million of investor funds and assets. What they found […]
COVID-19 has slowed the housing market BCREA Two years on from being buffeted by demand-stifling government policies, the BC housing market was set to record a relatively normal year in 2020. However, hopes for a return to normal were upended by a worldwide pandemic that has thrown a blanket of uncertainty over the entire global […]
Commercial real estate transactions in the Lower Mainland soared to $2.15 billion in Q1 Western Investor Led by land sales and the multi-family rental sector, the total dollar value of commercial real estate transactions in the Lower Mainland soared to $2.15 billion in the first three months of 2020, a 37.2 per cent increase from […]