Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, May 30, 2016
LandQuest Realty Corp.celebrates its 20th anniversary this year as the largest dealer in land in British Columbia: but scratch the surface of the clamouring global demand the company is now experiencing, and LandQuest is really dealing in water, according to the company co-founders.
“Every time it rains in B.C, we should get down on our knees and give thanks,” said Rudy Nielsen who,
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,
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2016
It is a calm sunny morning at Third Beach in Stanley Park and not even an introduced eastern grey squirrel is bouncing around for free peanuts.
About the only thing stirring in the corner parking lot is me, hauling my kayak off the back of my pickup truck and dragging it across the grass down a small bluff to the seawall to be hoisted onto the salty shores of English Bay.
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 10, 2016
You can skimboard at Jericho Beach, ride your bike along the Richmond dikes and hunt for crabs at Ambleside park in West Vancouver.
How has Metro Vancouver done at keeping access to the ocean open to the public? How much of our waterfront is blocked off by condo walls or industrial gates?
According to real estate data provided by Landcor Data Corp and analyzed by The Sun,
Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, May 9, 2016
Along Metro Vancouver’s tony waterfront, condominiums are no longer the poor man’s starter home.
Many are now the rich man’s mansion, minus the grass and plus the concierge.
There is a condo at the foot of Thurlow Street, with unrestricted views of Vancouver Harbour, which is more than 8,000 square feet and has five bathrooms. Its price tag is a cool $22.3 million,
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, May 9, 2016
When we look out at the craggy industrial face of the Port of Vancouver, we see freighters from around the world, piles of sulphur and coal, grain unloaded from rail cars into silos, commercial float planes, tugs, ferries and gantries moving container cargo.
Much less obvious is the natural world that defies the odds and makes its home within the bustling waters and unyielding infrastructure of the inner harbour.