Vancouver House

213 Spinnaker Drive, Mayne Island, B.C.Listing price: $169,999Selling price: $178,100Days on market: 8Taxes: $492.49 (2021)Listing agent: Ian Watt, Sutton Group West Coast RealtyThe quarter-acre forested lot on Mayne Island is undeveloped, without utility hook-ups. There is road access, and it is walking distance to the Village Bay ferry terminal, beaches...

Most people accept recycling as a necessary part of their routine. And yet instead of recycling perfectly livable houses, we freely demolish thousands each year. That’s hardly sustainable.Last year alone, about 4,000 houses were demolished in the Vancouver region, and an estimated 80 per cent of them had at least...

New data released by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program show that one in five City of Vancouver property owners own more than one property, with similar levels in Toronto. The report suggests that homeowners who own more than one home – in some cases, three or four, or more –...

630 E. Broadway, No. 412, VancouverAsking price: $949,000Selling price: $999,000Previous selling price: $819,900 (2019)Days on market: 0Monthly maintenance fee: $425.30Taxes: $2,688.70 (2021)Buyer’s agent: Dennis Sepulveda, Re/Max Crest RealtySeller’s agent: Deanna Lawrence, Oakwyn RealtyThe unit was sold privately and not listed. The sellers had been preparing to put it on the...

Spring is in the air and the outlook is cheery for the next couple of years, according to pundits who spoke at the Vancouver Real Estate Forum held online last weekThe opening remarks were delivered by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal. His tone was far...

1333 W. 11th Ave., No. 102, VancouverAsking price: $1.389-millionSelling price: $1.67-millionPrevious selling price: $855,000 (2013); $841,000 (2010); $788,000 (2008)Days on market: 5Monthly maintenance fee: $605.66Taxes: $3,367.44 (2021)Listing agent: Karin Smith, Re/Max Select RealtyListing agent Karin Smith showed this unit to 44 parties and received 11 subject-free offers after five days....

Commercial property broker Marshall McAnerney had been working as an executive in the U.S. when he decided to relocate to Kelowna to be near family.He figured he’d get into real estate there. He’d seen the urban revitalization of the industrial Pearl District in Portland, and there was no reason Kelowna...

2851 Heather St., No. 607, VancouverAsking price: $729,000Selling price: $729,000Previous selling price: $349,900 (2008)Days on market: 12Monthly maintenance fee: $289.14Taxes: $1,983.62 (2021)Listing agent: Cesar Pineda, Sutton West Coast RealtyBuyer’s agent: Shali Tark, Sutton West Coast RealtyThe seller received one offer on the condo at the listed price, subject to a...

Last week, Vancouver released the results of a month-long survey that asked citizens what should be done with the city-owned land of False Creek South. Vancouverites are familiar with the cluster of 1970s stacked townhouses that hug the southern False Creek shoreline, and sit between Cambie and Burrard Street bridges.Through...

When the pandemic began and it looked like the economy would be brought to its knees, Andrew Anderson wasn’t the only one thinking he might finally get into the housing market.“At the beginning of the pandemic everyone thought, ‘oh, there’ll be all these foreclosures,’” says Mr. Anderson. “We certainly were...

3820 Welwyn St., VancouverListing price: $1.258-millionSelling price: $1.268-millionPrevious selling price: $530,320 (2006)Days on market: nineTaxes: $3,244.58 (2020)Monthly maintenance fee: $387.18Listing agent: Mary Cleaver, Re/Max Select RealtyThe sellers accepted an offer within two days of listing it. Showings were held on a Wednesday and the sellers received two offers that night....

3721 Beatrice St., VancouverListing price: $1.499 millionSelling price: $1.625 millionPrevious selling price: $216,800 (2001); $240,000 (1993); $203,800 (1991); $88,000 (1986)Days on market: 5Taxes: $4,771.79 (2021)Listing agent: Shali Tark, Sutton Group, West Coast RealtyThe sellers bought the house in 2003 but retired and moved away. The buyers will likely hold the...

1009 Harwood St., No. 505, VancouverAsking price: $799,900Selling price: $788,000Previous selling price: $770,000 (April, 2020)Days on market: 2Taxes: $2,205.95 (2021)Monthly strata fees: $342.26Listing agent: Frederick Trudeau, TRG The Residential Group RealtyBuyer’s agent: Ian Watt, Sutton Group West Coast RealtyBuyer’s agent Ian Watt said his client came to B.C. to work...

On the Sunshine Coast, a short ferry ride from the Lower Mainland, two enterprising millennials plan to assemble a unique neighbourhood entirely from scratch, to help other millennials like themselves find a sustainable, close-knit community – by barging in and upcycling old character houses that would have otherwise gone to...

Flipping through The Globe and Mail’s real estate section these days is a boggling experience. This Friday’s showed clear signs of madness at both the high and low ends of this season’s red-hot market. A four-bedroom, “neo-classical” mansion in Oakville, just west of Toronto, recently sold for $18-million. A three-bedroom...

Should the Bank of Canada target home prices as part of its official mandate? It sounds like a tempting notion, especially at a time like the present, when runaway home prices are creating a frenzy of speculation. But the idea is fundamentally misguided.The problem is that a central bank can...

The prices of cottages and vacation homes in Ontario and Atlantic Canada will rise sharply this year before inflated values push more buyers out of the market, according to a new forecast from Royal LePage.Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, popular summer vacation areas such as Ontario’s Muskoka region, the Kawartha...

Someone needs to level with young adults hoping big city houses can be made affordable again.These millennials and members of Gen Z are looking to government to cool the housing market and they’re starting petitions and letter-writing campaigns to advance their cause. Unfortunately, it’s too late for a lot of...

One year after the pandemic began, and despite initial worries, it turned out to be one of the real-estate industry’s best years.“There are bidding wars on many homes throughout the Lower Mainland, on the Island, and even in the Kootenays,” says Rudy Nielsen, an industry veteran who owns Landcor Data...

580 12th Street, Unit 407, New Westminster, B.C.Asking price: $615,000Selling price: $515,000Days on market: 120Taxes: $2,122.06Maintenance fee: $395.57Listing agent: Greg Dent, Re/Max Select RealtyThe unit had been listed previously, last summer, for $850,000. Agent Greg Dent, who took over the listing, says the original summer listing price was too high....