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Value: Weighed and Measured
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COVID-19 isn’t an opportunity, but it's one heck of a motivator
How does a business, or a doctor’s office or a…
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Condo owners face potential insurance double whammy
Consider this scenario as a condo owner: Your bathtub overflows and…
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Affordable housing: The real challenge is long-term maintenance
Back in October, I posed a contrary view to a…
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Building permit approvals: Don’t leave the fox to run the hen house
Financial pressures, competitive pressures, fear of losing one’s job, even…
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'Eyesore' properties: What can, and should, a municipality do?
There are always property owners who continue to incur the…
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How do we protect from foreign buyers without causing economic harm?
Vancouver’s real estate problems appear chronic. B.C. Premier John Horgan…
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Watch out: Commercial real estate key source for transit funding
All of these statements are true: * Canada’s larger cities…
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The affordable housing riddle: Cost to build only a third of the story
A few weeks back, a report from the International Monetary…
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Rising condo costs signal multires revival, and the issues it brings
Royal LePage released a market survey recently that tracked how…
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'Retail apocalypse’ is the same old story, with new actors
I saw one of those periodic headlines in the news…
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Keeping development on pace, to avoid an economic beating
I was about 10 years old when the former buildings…