Our mission
Information asymmetry is the most profitable feature of modern housing and capital markets. Listings firms hoard absorption data; venture funds hoard cap-table mechanics; mortgage shops hoard the actual stress-test math. Vanhub News exists to dissolve as much of that asymmetry as a small newsroom can — by translating the primary documents (BC Assessment filings, CMHC reports, SEC S-1s, Bank of Canada minutes, leaked Series-B decks) into work that operators, founders, and homebuyers can act on the same morning.
Why Vancouver
Vancouver is one of the few North American cities that simultaneously functions as a Pacific real-estate gateway, a Cascadia tech corridor node, and a Commonwealth financial market. Capital, talent, and regulatory experiments arrive here from Seoul, San Francisco, Toronto, and London at roughly the same speed — and they collide inside the same ten city blocks. That gives our reporters an unusually direct sightline into how trends become consensus.
We are physically headquartered in downtown Vancouver, with contributing editors based in Seattle, Toronto, and Calgary. Every location is listed publicly on each author's profile page, because E-E-A-T is not a checklist — it is the entire premise of journalism.
What we cover
Vanhub News maintains five active beats. Each beat is owned by a named editor whose credentials are public:
- Real Estate & PropTech — North American housing cycles, mortgage policy, build-to-rent supply, and the software stack that brokerages, landlords, and lenders are actually buying.
- Startups & Venture Capital — Series A through C rounds across Cascadia, with operator-first reporting on cap tables, founder churn, and product reality versus pitch-deck reality.
- Markets & Economics — Bank of Canada and Federal Reserve policy translated into mortgage payments, bond spreads, and small-business credit.
- Technology — Software releases, cloud infrastructure, and the operational realities of shipping tech products inside North American companies.
- Local News (Vancouver) — Civic policy, transit funding, and small-business pressure inside Metro Vancouver, written by reporters who live here.
How we report
Every Vanhub News article follows a documented production process. The full version is published in our Editorial Policy, but in summary:
- Data first. Reporters work from primary sources (CMHC, BCREA, Federal Reserve, SEC, internal company documents) before any narrative is written.
- Triangulation. Major claims are checked against at least two independent sources — typically one operator, one investor, and one customer or counterparty.
- Rigorous research desk. Our research team synthesises data, market filings, and background material. No story is published without a named human editor verifying every quote, statistic, and forecast.
- Public corrections. When we get it wrong, we say so — at the top of the article, with a timestamped correction note. Read how to request a correction.
How we make money
Vanhub News is supported by display advertising (primarily Google AdSense), a forthcoming reader newsletter, and a small number of clearly-labelled sponsored articles. We do not accept payment in exchange for favourable coverage of any startup, real estate development, lender, brokerage, or technology platform. Affiliate links — if used — are disclosed inline.
Our editorial team has no visibility into which advertisers run on Vanhub News on a given day. The advertising stack is operated by a separate revenue contact (ads@vanhubnews.com) who has no editorial input.
Contact
The fastest way to reach the right person is to email the relevant beat reporter directly from their author profile page. For everything else, see our Contact page.