Squamish Real Estate News

2019's top five real estate investment towns in Western Canada

Site of Canada’s biggest private investment and a Lower Mainland hotspot included in the Western Investor annual spotlight on the best places to buy real estate

Oct 29, 2018 10:33 AM Read more >

Comment: Scales tipping against B.C. homeowners

Many owners of second homes don't have money to upgrade properties to rental standard, or pay speculation or empty homes tax bill

Oct 28, 2018 12:02 AM Read more >

Check out this unique $8.9M Whistler house built into cliff (PHOTOS)

Jaw-dropping home is accessed by elevator via a tunnel in the cliff – and has its own waterfall

Oct 26, 2018 7:00 AM Read more >

BoC raises interest rates again – what that means for you

With overnight rate at 1.75 per cent, first-time buyers and variable-rate mortgage holders will be most affected

Oct 24, 2018 10:30 AM Read more >

Metro Vancouver residential land rush may be over as housing market slows

All signs point to the end of the residential land rush in the Lower Mainland, according to a presentation given by the Urban Development Institute

Oct 24, 2018 10:16 AM Read more >

B.C. residents increasingly fearful of interest rate hikes: poll

Forty-one per cent of B.C. residents are worried they will have financial difficulties if rates go up, according to a poll

Oct 23, 2018 2:14 PM Read more >

Exclusive: Chinese buyer interest in Metro Vancouver real estate soars again

After a slump in inquiries, third quarter sees leap in Metro Vancouver searches on Chinese real estate portal Juwai.com

Oct 23, 2018 11:33 AM Read more >

Opinion: Watered-down speculation tax could result in net zero

The tax will help families find homes, argue some, while others say it will damage local economies. Alternatively, its new iteration could do... nothing

Oct 22, 2018 12:55 AM Read more >

Metro Vancouver's high-end house rents plunge as inventory spikes: experts

Slowdown of detached home sales, speculation-tax avoidance, Airbnb rules bring flood of high-end houses onto rental market, creating “desperation” as owners slash rents up to 20 per cent

Oct 19, 2018 12:46 PM Read more >

Reduced parking for affordable seniors housing project supported

The Squamish Senior Citizens’ Home Society requested looser parking requirements

Oct 18, 2018 4:28 PM Read more >