After lull, Vancouver housing prices set for rebound



The Royal LePage quarterly house price survey, released Tuesday, shows home prices in the Greater Vancouver region dropped 1.9 per cent in the quarter ended March 31 compared with the last quarter of 2016, driven by a decline in prices of detached ...


David and Goliath: a priceless Vancouver academic retires, after 45 years grappling with unaffordability

That's a comment on just how little [policy] had happened in Vancouver, and the rest of Canada too, although here the stakes are much higher.




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