The Vancouver Sun, September 15, 2014 ‘Millennials’ are the kids crammed into overcrowded B-Line buses headed to and from UBC. They are the many under-employed servers and clerks, unpaid interns and contract workers. They are frequently dissed as being entitled, lazy and arrogant. But they are also the largest demographic group to come along since […]

CBC News, September 24, 2014 East Vancouver prices mirror what’s happening on upscale West Side. Vancouver’s East Side may no longer be the affordable, funky alternative to the tony, high-priced real estate west of Main Street. At least if a recent sale is any indication. A house at 846 E 27th Avenue, on a 33 […]

Vancouver Sun, July 15, 2014 New Downtown South neighbourhood lacks food shopping, family dining options. One of Vancouver’s fastest-changing neighbourhoods is facing a dearth of services and amenities amid a boom of residential tower construction, say residents, developers and other stakeholders in the city’s Downtown South. The roughly six-block section of Downtown South wedged between […]

Canadian Real Estate Magazine – November 23, 2011 What can we say? The Vancouver InvestorForum was a huge success, exceeding both delegate and exhibitor expectations. It’s all courtesy of Diamond sponsor Vision Investment Properties, which helped bring together more than 350 professional real estate investors for Canadian Real Estate`s first major event in Western Canada, […]

Canadian Mortgage Trends – November 25, 2011 Four prominent economists met on a CAAMP panel Monday: Avery Shenfeld (CIBC), Warren Jestin (Scotiabank), Stefane Marion (National Bank Financial) and Carlos Leitao (Laurentian Bank). The eurozone crisis, employment, rates and CMHC were the topics of the day. Here’s what they expressed about each: On Interest Rates “It […]

The Vancouver Sun –  November 28, 2011 Online shopping is gradually becoming more mainstream with a new survey showing almost half of Canadians asked say they’ll access the web for some of their holiday gift purchases this year. The survey, commissioned by Bank of Montreal, had 46 per cent of respondents saying they would buy […]

Vancouver Sun, November 14, 2011 Second only to the Bermuda Triangle, lengthy restaurant menus surely claim the most lost souls. You go in with plans for a simple meal, but it’s not long before the question of chicken or fish, salad or french fries, becomes a full-blown existential crisis. Writing in the Journal of Consumer […]

REW, November 12, 2011 From January 1 to the end of September of this year, 953 homes sold in Greater Vancouver for $2.5 million or more each, according to Eugene Klein, president of the commercial division of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. “That is almost as many as the three previous years combined,” […]

Financial Post, November 14, 2011 Canadians will be more cautious holiday shoppers than their U.S. counterparts this season, while sales at some U.S. retail stores operating in this country are weaker than the stateside division. Average retail sales in the U.S. are projected to grow 5% in November and December, Sal Guatieri, vice-president and senior […]

Reuters, October 17, 2011 Sales of existing homes in Canada picked up in September after three months of stable activity, led by strong sales in Toronto, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) said on Monday. The industry group said sales rose 2.7 percent from August and were up 11 percent from September 2010, a period […]

CBC News, October 17, 2011 Protest camp didn’t affect traffic in downtown Vancouver on Monday morning. Protesters who occupied the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery and Victoria’s Centennial Square over the weekend say they’ll stay “as long as it takes” to fight corporate greed and social inequity. Thousands gathered in front of the art […]

Vancouver Sun, October 15, 2011 Will success spoil the Dunbar Haunted House? When Brad Leith, Gideon Flitt and their families and friends first set out to scare their neighbours at 50th and Dunbar on Halloween in 2004, it was because the previous year had seen fewer kids than you can count on 10 fingers show […]

Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association, September 26, 2011 If you think British Columbians, in general, are fed up to the teeth with the HST debacle, many members of the residential construction industry are biting through their lips to keep from screaming. I mean, enough already; when is this stomach-churning, roller-coaster ride going to stop? First, […]

The Vancouver Sun, September 19, 2011 ‘Mi-Pads’ incorporate elements such as built-in bunk beds and wooden lockers When pondering how to construct smaller homes that young adults and renters could afford, homebuilder Tom Hignite turned his attention from the land to the sea. Cruise ships, to be exact. He studied how the essentials of living […]

The Vancouver Sun, September 26, 2011 Credit Suisse plans to construct 30-storey building to highest LEED standard In the race to build multimillion-dollar commercial office buildings in downtown Vancouver, the prevailing mantra appears to be a new take on an old expression. Green is good. The latest manifestation of a sustainable office building is being […]

The Vancouver Sun, August 25, 2011 Slower job growth in British Columbia’s economy will mean slower increases in home sales and property values through to 2012, the B.C. Real Estate Association said Thursday. And by the end of 2012, the association expects the high-flying prices in some of B.C.’s bigger markets to show small declines. […]

BC Business, August 26, 2011 The HST is dead. Long live the new tax regime, which will be exactly the same, only in two parts and much more expensive. So, the HST goes down, knifed in one of the greatest examples of emotions ruling heads in B.C.’s long history of emotional politics. As one (sorry, […]