Matt Robinson, Vancouver Sun , March 5, 2018
Suggesting young people buy a cheap starter home in the suburbs and later buy in the city, as their parents did, is still valid today — as long as you consider places like Chilliwack and Hope as suburbs of Vancouver.
Those are among the few Lower Mainland municipalities with housing prices that appear not to have blown past incomes over the past two decades,
Susan Lazaruk, Vancouver Sun, Aug 26, 2017
If you’re hoping to strike up a friendship with a neighbour who has a backyard pool, your chances improve if you live in Kelowna, West Vancouver or Surrey.
Those cities have the greatest number of single family dwellings with their own backyard pools, according to numbers provided to Postmedia News by Landcor Data Corp., using B.C. Assessment Authority information.
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2017
The air of Vancouver real estate is rarefied for ordinary purchasers, but prominent philanthropists Joseph and Rosalie Segal are reaching for the top of the luxury market with a $63-million asking price for their palatial Point Grey mansion.
That price would set a record for Metro Vancouver, according to a statement from Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.
The Segals’ home isn’t listed on the real estate industry’s Multiple Listing Service,
Robert (Bob) de Wit, Vancouver Province, April 07, 2017
When it comes to building new homes, many people are surprised to learn that it takes far longer to make it through city hall than it does to build the house.
To put it in context, a ‘typical’ two-level, 2500-square-foot home takes 16-18 weeks to build, however getting to the stage where the shovel hits the ground can take several months,
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, January 5, 2017
Looking across the entire Lower Mainland, it was detached homes in Richmond Brighouse neighbourhood that saw the biggest increase in 2017 property assessments, though White Rock was the biggest community to see its average assessment shoot over the threshold for the B.C. Homeowner Grant.
Those results were pulled from data provided to Postmedia by property-data firm Landcor Data Corp., which compiled neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood changes in 2017 property valuations by the B.C.
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 15, 2016
Does it seem like cranes and dump trucks are constantly on seaside streets, as bigger, newer homes are built on the water?
Seventy-nine new homes have been built on the oceanfront in Metro Vancouver during the past five years, the most (24) in West Vancouver, according to a spreadsheet of waterfront properties provided to The Sun by Landcor Data Corp,
The colour-coded map below shows the location of the newly built houses along the Pacific Ocean from Lions Bay to South Surrey.
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 13, 2016
If you don’t mind the border crossing, the place you should buy oceanfront property near Vancouver is, of course, Point Roberts.
There is a four-bedroom, two-bathroom, waterfront house for sale on the American peninsula for $658,000 US. Even with the low Canadian dollar, that’s a relative bargain ($825,230 Cdn) for this 1,792-square-foot home built in 1974 on a 0.23 acre lot.
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 12, 2016
When we think of waterfront homes, we often think big: The palatial mansion on the expansive lot with the eye-popping price tag.
And while there are many teeny tiny places squeezed onto precious seaside land, there are indeed some impressively large homes to tell you about.
There are 275 oceanfront homes bigger than 5,000 square feet — 16 of them condos.
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2016
I awake to the sound of a gull and crows scrounging through my gear for food.
The gull thinks it has something, but it’s just a plastic baggie containing my pocket matches.
“Get out of here,” I scream. It obliges by flying away with the matches and landing out on the salt chuck.
So much for morning coffee.
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2016
Commercial properties may only take up two per cent of the land lining Metro Vancouver’s oceanfront, but this includes nearly 600 businesses that will feed, entertain and pamper you along the shoreline.
There are at least 77 office buildings, 73 hotels, 37 stores, 12 restaurants and five theatres directly on the Pacific Ocean between Lions Bay and South Surrey. (There are likely even more stores and restaurants that would not have been listed separately if,