Frank O'Brien

CMHC-insured rental construction loan rates have doubled in the past year, so waiving the goods and service tax seen as a boon for rental developers

While office vacancies rise to 7.8 per cent, just 1.4 per cent of industrial space is empty in the suburbs surrounding Vancouver

Asset sales fell 42 per cent quarter-to-quarter as high costs scuttled deals, vacancy rates edged up and construction hit a record high in Canada’s strongest industrial market

The tallest Passive House project in the world and among the most expensive condos ever built in Vancouver, the tower has seen 90 per cent of the first offerings snapped up

40-storey 300 Main – city’s tallest apartment building ¬– brings luxury rentals to troubled downtown with rents towering over city average

Offerings include a court-ordered sale of a Vancouver land assembly, a new lakefront resort play in Saskatchewan and an Okanagan manufactured home park priced at less than a Vancouver condo

Per-key cost for an old hostel – plus necessary renos – is six times its assessed value and more than a buyer paid for the full-service Marriott Hotel a block from Parliament Hill in Ottawa

Foreclosures had been kept at bay by bargain hunters, but deep price discounts are now exposing a rising risk of defaults across Metro Vancouver

Bright outlook for sales not guaranteed as Bank of Canada weighs its options

Senior governments hostile to resource development, the ending of major construction projects and fears of Indigenous veto among challenges