Real Estate

Pre-leasing counting on an upswing in tenant activity as vacancies max out

VANCOUVER — Greater Vancouver Realtors says home sales in the region jumped 31.

Risks remain in the mortgage market as a wave of borrowers still have to renew at higher rates, alternative lenders take a growing share of new mortgages and delinquency rates keep creeping up, Canada's housing agency says.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to the provinces' premiers, asking them to eliminate their sales taxes on new homes that are under $1 million.

Anticipated development, lower interest rates create opportunities across the province

OTTAWA — With the benchmark prices for a home in Toronto or Vancouver at over a million dollars, the prospect of saving enough for a down payment to enter the real estate market can be a daunting task for first-time buyers.

High cost of materials and labour contributing to unaffordability, says BCCA

Loblaw says it wants to eliminate commercial property controls in the grocery industry, amid a Competition Bureau investigation into the practice — and it's calling on other grocers to do the same.

OTTAWA — A number of Conservative MPs have written letters to the Liberal housing minister asking him to grant their communities funding from a program that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre this week called disastrous and promised to cancel.

With starts per capita at their lowest level in a decade, industry looks for more reform