Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, Dec 8, 2020
Vancouver landscape architect Paul Sangha has long created gorgeous gardens and outdoor spaces for homes in the city, but this year, he is juggling a dramatic switch for his services in far-flung, recreational properties.
It’s not just at Whistler, he said. “That, we would traditionally get. But now it’s jumped to Bowen Island and Pemberton, and then also into the Okanagan,
Joanne Lee-Young, The Province, January 04, 2017
Dramatic gains in assessed property values across B.C. mean twice as many homeowners as last year will no longer qualify for tax relief via the province’s homeowner grant program.
That’s because their homes are — on paper, in a snapshot captured at July 2016 — worth too much.
This year, only 83 per cent of homeowners in B.C. will qualify for a grant as the province’s program currently exists,
Joanne Lee-Young, The Province, Sept 10, 2016
The crux of the Lower Mainland housing crisis supposedly hinges on the lack of supply and an insatiable demand for land that can be developed.
Municipalities insist they are hung up on a way to boost the supply of affordable housing, in part, because Metro Vancouver is so hemmed in by water, mountains and land designated for agricultural use.
And yet,
Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, January 5, 2016
The average value of detached homes has broken through $1 million in more than 50 additional Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods, 2016 assessment figures show.
“It’s a little, depressed area,” Realtor Jason Weinman said of the Multiple Listing Service-defined zone of Lynnmour on the North Shore. There’s not much to this zone between the end of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and Capilano University,