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CREA predicts 2023 home sales to edge down 0.5% from 2022 mark
The Canadian Real Estate Association expects home sales to edge down less than one per cent and prices to fall almost six per cent from 2022, which ended with the market in a sluggish state as sellers and buyers sat on the sidelines.The…
Average monthly rents exceed $2,000: National Rent Report
The average listed rent for all property types rose 12.2 per cent year over year in December to $2,005, an increase of $217 over the same month last year, according to the Rentals.ca and Urbanation latest National Rent Report.Average…
B.C. plans to streamline housing permit approval process to get more homes built
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is creating a single hub for developers to get provincial approval to build homes, in a bid to accelerate a housing permit process that has forced them to wait as long as two years.Premier…
CAF-FCA completes Women in the Skilled Trades program pilot
The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA) has completed the new National Leadership Development Program for Women in the Skilled Trades pilot.The program was developed in partnership with the Office to Advance Women…
Home prices in Q4 down year over year, first decline since end of 2008: report
TORONTO — The median price of a home in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2022 posted the first year-over-year decline since the end of 2008 during the financial crisis, Royal LePage says.In its house price survey released Friday, the…
Tri City real estate sales in December halved from 2021, fall 23 percent from November
By Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterTRI-CITIES DISPATCHDecember property sales in the Tri-Cities were less than half of those made in 2021, as the dramatic downturn in real estate sales shows no signs of slowing…
Inflation, pandemic costs driving Ontario property tax hikes as upkeep backlogs grow
TORONTO — With a number of Ontario municipalities eyeing property tax increases, experts say homeowners across the province can expect to see higher tax bills this year because of inflation, pandemic costs and recent provincial changes to…
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
KPMB Architects’ latest 9000-square-foot Harrison McCain Pavilion, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery have reached completion. The pavilion is the final and most public phase in the gallery’s three phase expansion and situated directly across…
Disrupting City Building Processes with Joy
Many of the world’s biggest problems are being pushed down to cities—they are on the frontlines of every crisis from affordable housing to climate change and mental health issues caused by isolation and social division due to digital…
Montreal home sales in December fall 39% compared with year ago: Quebec board
MONTREAL — The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says home sales in Montreal last month fell 39 per cent from a year earlier to a level not seen in December since 2014.The real estate organization says sales for…