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Vancouver Real Estate

Bursting real estate bubbles: China, Spain...Vancouver?

Will Vancouver become a squatter's paradise?
Cabinets from the early 1980s

$300,000, one human soul, plus tax and maintenance: Your first Vancouver apartment

What will $300,000 get you in Vancouver? Not an apartment with a washer/dryer.

How well do you really know Kitsilano?

You recognize this construction site for the Vermeer in Kitsilano, but what used to be here? Do you know West 4th as well as you think?

Drop in BC home assessments no big deal

Gradual price drops in BC are a great thing: one realtor's plain-spoken analysis on why Vancouverites don't have to worry about the drop in home prices.

Luxury city real estate's stunning nosedive

The city and province's most expensive digs, just got a little cheaper in 2012. But the rest of Vancouver's real estate home values continued to rise.

Vancouver real estate market crash? Not so much...

Vancouver Real Estate Crash? Maybe not... The Vancouver real estate market has shifted in favour of buyers, but is it crashing read more to get the real story.

In San Francisco, tech economy leads bounce

After a five-day holiday in The City during, yes, a gloomy ‘Fog-ust’, I came away deliriously stoked about all of the things San Francisco offers that, well, Vancouver does not. Like surfing in the...

So, where do these people live?

We all live somewhere.

Vancouver real estate: like selling a couch on Craigslist

Waiting for home prices to go up on Vancouver's West Side?