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Surrey Built 6,297 Homes in 2024. Vancouver Built 4,143. Here's the Gap.
Surrey shattered its all-time permit record while Vancouver missed its provincial target by 20% — and the $96M federal subsidy driving that gap is temporary.
1% Appeal Rate, $2.75 Trillion on the Table: Fight Your BC Assessment
BC Assessment values 2.2 million properties at $2.75 trillion — yet fewer than 1% of owners appeal. Here's how the free correction process works and who should use it.
BC Pension Funds Are Quietly Repricing Vancouver Office — And It Hurts
BCI's QuadReal and CPPIB are cutting office exposure as Vancouver downtown vacancy hits 11.6%. What their write-downs signal for landlords, lenders, and city tax rolls.
$1,078/Month Relief — But 1.15 Million Renewers Still Face the Bill
The Bank of Canada's 275-bps cutting cycle handed variable-rate holders real savings. The renewal wave hitting 2026 tells a harder story, especially in Vancouver.
TransLink's $600M Deficit Hinges on a Law That Doesn't Exist Yet
BC's promised 2027 revenue tool is undefined, yet every suburban expansion and federal dollar unlock depends on it. Here's what the math actually shows.
$500 Billion Locked In, $7 Billion Coming Out: Canada's GIC Reckoning
Canadians stuffed nearly half a trillion dollars into GICs when rates hit 5%. Now the Bank of Canada has cut nine times and the exit is underway — here's where the money is actually going.
BC's Speculation Tax Has a Five-Year Backlog and a Shrinking Base
An internal audit found 18,511 uncollected SVT accounts. Now BC is doubling down with a 4% rate hike — on a foreign-owner pool the feds already compressed to 1% of Vancouver deals.
J.P. Morgan Backed a Vancouver Mine-AI Firm. The Exit Math Is Telling.
MineSense Technologies closed a US$42M Series E led by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. What the round signals about institutional capital repricing industrial AI — and who captures the upside.
SR&ED at 45%: Vancouver Founders Can Now Claim $2.1M Back From CRA
The 2025-2026 SR&ED overhaul doubled the refundable credit limit and restored hardware eligibility. Here's what that actually means for your cash runway.
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