Vancouver Real Estate News

Latest real estate news from Vancouver BC and Canada by Jay Banks and his Vancouver Homes team

Olympics Polarise Opinion

With the Winter Olympics truly centre stage for the coming weeks supporters and opponents are fiercely contesting their own slanging match.

Diverse selection and favourable interest rates continue to drive demand in the Greater Vancouver housing market.

Intrawest ULC, the debt-laden owner of Olympic site Whistler-Blackcomb, is selling off more properties to focus on its bigger venues in Canada.

Another part of our moving guide is ready. This time about moving and insurance.

Vancouver serves up the finest Chinese food in the world according to seasoned Conde Nast Traveler writer Mark Schatzker.

Sniffer dogs specially trained to find explosives have been brought in as part of counter-terrorism measures at Vancouver’s Winter Olympics.

Two women and a tree-cutter have been charged with illegally chopping down trees at a Vancouver home under an old city bylaw.

With the Winter Olympics days away the jury is still out on the impact the Games will have on host resort property prospects in B.C.

A man found guilty of Canada’s largest known illegal marijuana grow-op scam has been jailed for five years and fined more than $1 million.

Affordable housing is becoming more of a reality for low income citizens in downtown Vancouver with a new addition on the block.

Vancouver is a market leader as one of the world’s most “unaffordable” cities according to a recent survey.

Good news for Metro Vancouver’s home buyers – the city’s real estate market is hot but not overheating according to the Conference Board of Canada.

A deal to sell off development rights to land on the west side of BC Place Stadium is imminent says operator PavCo.

Record sales and prices of existing homes in Canada towards the end of 2009 has stirred debate of a housing bubble in British Columbia.

Home renovators have little time to improve their properties before the government’s home renovation tax credit expires at the end of the month.