Real Estate
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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.
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.
Vancouver Rezoned 10 Neighbourhoods at Once. The Land Won't Build Itself.
City Council's first-ever Official Development Plan plus BC's Bill 44 and Bill 18 have triggered simultaneous rezoning across 10 Vancouver neighbourhoods in 2026 — but collapsed presales mean most of that upzoned land sits idle.
Vancouver Rents Fell 5.7% — The STR Ban Gets the Credit It Didn't Earn
BC's Airbnb crackdown removed 7,000 listings and made great headlines. The vacancy surge to 3.7% had a different driver — and renters already housed got nothing.
99% of BC Homeowners Didn't Appeal. The 2026 Roll Rewards the 1% Who Do.
BC Assessment set $2.75 trillion in property values for 2026 — and almost nobody pushed back. Here's why this year's $90B Lower Mainland drop changes that math.
$212,000 Off: BC Assessment's 2026 Roll vs. What Homes Actually Sold For
BC Assessment cut $90B from Metro Vancouver's roll—yet assessed values still trail real sale prices by six figures. Here's what that gap costs you.