Canadian Pensions Selling Billions Worth of Vancouver Real Estate
Canada’s large public pensions are beginning to lower exposure to the Vancouver real estate market, setting off new alarms of the bubble pop.
BC Mortgage Defaults Approach Lows, Here’s Why That’s A Bad Thing
More than a few people have been saying that if there was a crash, we would see an increase on late payments on mortgages. This logic seems solid on the surface, but makes BC’s situation all the more confusing. People are purchasing homes at 21x the medium income, it doesn’t quite make sense that no […]
A Tour of Vancouver’s $3 Million Teardowns For Sale
We look at three teardown properties in Vancouver that highlight how expensive the city is, and just how little $3 million can buy you.
Why The BC Liberals Rushed A Foreign Buyer Tax – Absorption Rates Explained
Absorption rates show demand for BC real estate reversed in March 2016, so why was a foreign buyer tax thrown in last minute?
Turns Out Vancouver Real Estate Returns Suck If You’re A Chinese Investor
You know how foreign buyers are supposedly piling into Vancouver real estate because it’s such a great investment? Turns out it isn’t.
Average Detached House In Vancouver Now 21 Times Median Income [Interactive Map]
Betting on a Vancouver real estate crash? Not this month, as single house detached values soared to ridiculous heights.
Why BC’s Plan To Tax Foreign Speculators Won’t Fix A Damn Thing
How BC’s foreign speculator tax doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and why things are going to get a lot worse for locals in Vancouver.
The Unnatural Disaster Map of Vancouver’s Real Estate [Interactive]
Think the media is blowing the Vancouver housing crisis out of proportion? We visualized it on a map so you can decide for yourself.
Vancouver Has 3x As Many Illegal AirBnB Rentals As They Do Apartment Vacancies
Working at the speed of government just sucks. The City of Vancouver is still sorting out the details of an impact study on AirBnB, which likely won’t report any results until there’s been a significant amount of damage to an already strained city. So we decided to unleash our hungry data analysts to crunch the […]
Chinese Media Is Now Warning Canada’s Housing Crash Will Be Worse Than The US
Shots fired! While our media has been pointing out how Chinese buyers are driving up real estate prices, the Chinese media has been dissecting our economy, government, and warning Chinese buyers of the dangers of owning Canadian real estate. We’re always curious to know how other countries interpret our statistics, political climate and what outside media […]
