2019 Mid-Year Review
Transactions, dollar volume and values decline.
Category: Newsletter
2019 Spring update
The last 18 months or so would rate amongst the most challenging we’ve seen in almost two decades.
Rental Housing Task Force publishes much-awaited recommendations
Policies, programs and market forces all collided in a Big Bang-like explosion, leaving us with a chaos of uncertainty.
Greater Vancouver average rents and vacancy rates
A 10-year picture (2009-2018)
“Renoviction” and “demoviction”: Two fake words that may change your world
Regarding the language on redevelopment, we have three layers of concern.
2018—the story behind the stats: $3 billion and the year of the “skew”
In at least 6 Vancouver and suburban communities, volumes and unit averages compared to 2017 were skewed upward almost beyond recognition.
2018—what’s hot and what’s not
Cambie bike lane anticipated in middle of bridge?
Goodman sets the record straight: 9 myths about Vancouver’s rental market
With all the upheavals in rental housing right now, there are many myths being bandied about. When industry spokespeople talk about the realities of creating and maintaining rental supply, they’re often accused of fear-mongering. We beg to differ—it’s time to separate fact from fiction.
The market retains its lustre
The market in the first six months of 2018 versus 2017 is very much alive, if not thriving.
New housing program specifics
Metro Vancouver’s population has suffered through years of benign neglect.