Last week, members of Vancouver’s real estate and development community squeezed into a crowded downtown hotel ballroom to hear some astounding statistics about housing affordability around Metro Vancouver. The occasion was the annual Urban Development Institute presentation by Michael Ferreira of Urban Analytics, a consulting firm that advises developers what to build and what they
No one in Metro Vancouver needs to be told Vancouver’s west side is a pricey place to buy a home, but real estate firm Century 21 has crunched numbers from its own realtors to list it the most expensive neighbourhood in Canada, ahead of downtown Vancouver and West Vancouver. Using the parameters of a self-defined
The average price of a Canadian home rose by three per cent in the year up to September, even as sales came in 11 per cent lower than they were a year ago. The Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday that the deceleration in price gains largely reflects softening price trends in Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe
