Developments

The Hotel Georgia, having been recently renovated, will be complemented by a luxury residential high-rise.

Laneways homes were touted as a method to densify single family neighbourhoods and as mortgage helpers for homeowners. They’ve now starting to spring up all over the city an the cost to build a typical laneway nowadays is about $250,000-300,000. 

Buying a home is long and trying process – especially if you’re a first time buyer. With so much to do, it can be difficult preparing for the big moment. Albert Yen is an award-winning realtor that has specialized in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Vancouver East, Downtown and Richmond areas for 15 years. He offers free market updates which can be found on his website here.

Vancouver’s Chinatown is getting another shot in the arm with this recent proposal by Blue Sky Properties. The proposal is for a 16-storey mixed-use building with street level commercial and 151 residential units. The maximum height being proposed is 150 ft. (45.7 m). They’re also proposing 158 parking spaces, which I hope gets reduced considerably.

Adera’s near sold-out North Shore project, seven35, is the first Multi-Family LEED for Homes Platinum project in Canada over 10 units, as well as certified Built Green Gold — the first dual certification for a new home project in Canada.

We all know that Vancouver is expense, in fact it’s the most expensive city in North America. It’s a city that for the most part caters to the very rich and the very poor. It’s been a while since they’ve thought about the rest of the citizens of this city, especially when it come to housing. So the City of Vancouver is launching re:THINK Housing, a global ideas competition to create affordable housing solutions for Vancouver.