aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

36 realpaul I think it s great the way they delineate between drug addicts and thieves and crime in the DTES like that s the ONLY possible place where those behaviors could possibly take place! So if you shoplift to keep from starving you re a l...

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#31 other ted:Sea to Sky Highway upgrade is a joke. It s typical of how vested interests piggyback self serving projects funded by the public onto the Olympic bandwagon. Costs to add or straighten lanes in mountainous areas adjacent to waterways are...

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

There s a strange thing happening in the Vancouver real estate market right now. Even as some rush to buy while interest rates are at rock bottom, others are trying to figure out how to get out of a presales purchase agreement they may have rushed i...

topics: condo, developer, developers, real-estate

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My current Business in Vancouver article:The bets are in. The stakes are high. With billions on the table for the Canada Line and the Gateway project, we have two very different visions for our region.The first, transit-oriented; the second, auto-dep...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, coal-harbour, density, design

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I was very pleased to see an email from Todd Litman in my in box this morning. He sent me the link to his new free report on Smart Growth. It is a pdf that I suggest you download and read, and keep for future reference.Like all Todd s work it is care...

topics: business, density, developers, elected, housing

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Just a few years ago it seemed like the easy way to get rich was to buy a pre-sales condo in the Lower Mainland and wait for appreciation to kick in. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the bank: property values deflated. That means that m...

topics: condo, developer, developers, real-estate, surrey

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

The title is taken from an opinion piece on the Straight s web page forwarded to me by reader Mike Harridon. It is written by Elizabeth Murphy who has a background in development and urban land economics and has worked in the private sector, for the...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, density, developer, developers

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According to San Diego News columnist Arthur Salm:You think you've been to a depressing place? Wherever it was, I can top it.And I'm not even talking Third World, Mogadishu-Rangoon-Lagos depressing. The places I'm thinking about are in modern, democr...

topics: developers, downtown, health-care, mayor, planning

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David Godin sends in an L.A. Times report on the real-estate damage in San Diego:From 2001 through 2008, more than 8,000 condominium units were built in downtown San Diego. That s double the number of downtown units constructed over the same period i...

topics: affordability, condo, design, developers, downtown

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Vaughan Palmer in the Sun kicks the ball into the open goal. I am not sure if the the tax on bikes is actually the most important feature but it does once again give the lie to the Liberal s pretence to care about greenhouse gas emissions or urban ...

topics: bc-rail, business, carbon-tax, developers, election