Real Estate

The Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton has become the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard, according to ERA Architects (ERA) and PCL Construction (PCL).The 18-storey, 146-unit CityHousing…

The average rent for all Canadian properties in December was $1,789 per month, up 3.8 per cent annually, according to the Rentals.ca and Bullpen Research & Consulting latest National Rent Report.This is the fourth consecutive month…

OTTAWA – The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed to quickly build or buy affordable housing for the nation's most vulnerable – one piece of a larger home-price puzzle.The program first…

TORONTO – Luz Lopez-Dee was on the brink of eviction years ago, when she missed a government letter that was crucial for her to receive pension payments.The retiree was awash with nerves about how she would come up with rent, while she…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders.The talks came…

TORONTO — Ontario's largest communities will get new funding to help speed up development approvals, Premier Doug Ford announced as he hosted a housing summit Wednesday, but the municipal leaders he met with say much stronger action is…

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation climbed in December to its highest rate since 1991.The agency says the consumer price index in December was up 4.8 per cent compared with a year ago.The reading compared…

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in December fell 22 per cent when compared with November.The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was…

VANCOUVER – An annual surtax on houses valued over $1 million could help reduce housing inequality and cool housing markets, a report says.Paul Kershaw, founder of Generation Squeeze and author of the report published Wednesday with…

CALGARY — The Calgary Real Estate Board says December sales climbed by nearly 45 per cent year-over-year as 2021 ended with a record number of homes changing hands.The Albertan board says Calgary saw 1,737 homes sold last month, up from…