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BC Housing spending spree needs more transparency: Professor
B.C. Housing often spends three or four times the assessed value when it buys old…
Massive apartment building planned near downtown Kelowna
A proposed six-story, 171-unit apartment building could change the look of Harvey Avenue near downtown…
Why now is likely the best time to buy a house in Kamloops, Okanagan
It’s been an unusually slow winter in the Kamloops and Okanagan real estate markets but…
Kelowna lagging as luxury home market heats up in Canada
The demand for luxury homes has taken off in many Canadian cities this year, compared…
‘Free’ house in Kelowna getting plenty of interest
People from as far away as Kamloops are looking into the chance of getting a…
Price of houses jumped in Kamloops and the Okanagan in March
While the selling price for houses was down considerably in March from a year ago,…
Fourplex plan creates a ‘wealth windfall’ for single-family home owners: expert
New legislation proposed by the provincial government to allow fourplexes on most single-family lots could…
Don’t expect Vancouver’s eviction approach for Kamloops homeless encampments
Although it's a far cry from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Kamloops is no stranger to entrenched…
B.C. Housing buys fire-damaged Kamloops apartment building for $13M
B.C. Housing has purchased a North Kamloops apartment building for $13 million roughly two years…
Sicamous pensioners struggle to find affordable housing
A couple of seniors in Sicamous went through weeks of stress trying to find affordable…
Is the province overstepping its authority by imposing four-plexes province-wide?
New legislation proposed for this fall will allow people to build four-plexes on most single-family…
Leases extended for two Kamloops shelters
Two Kamloops emergency shelters will stay open for now after they were originally set to…
Premier Eby clearing local government hurdles for more housing
New rules are coming that will force cities throughout B.C. to allow secondary suites in…
West Kelowna facing another lawsuit over Elliott Road developments
The developer of two apartment buildings on Elliot Road is suing the City of West…
B.C. landlord fined $20K for ‘invalid’ eviction notices
A New Westminster landlord was fined $20,500 for serving, then repealing, eviction notices to tenants.…
Kamloops renter displaced twice for development projects in just over a year
Jennifer Adams is a housing coordinator in Kamloops, and while she works every day to…
B.C. strata loses legal case over deck
A B.C. condo owner whose deck was dramatically reduced in size by her strata has…
59 homes planned for six-storey North Kamloops development project
Kamloops city council is set to consider a six-storey housing development along Tranquille Road next…
This home and gold mine cost the same as a house in Kelowna
Paying more than $1 million for an older, three-bedroom, 1,148 square foot house may seem…
Land for development at Revelstoke Mountain Resort sells for $5.5M
Despite recent slowdowns in the real estate market a Kelowna real estate company has just…
Kelowna 10th most expensive city out of 35 in Canada to rent an apartment
The latest report from Rental.ca shows the average one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna is listed on…
Despite falling real estate prices in February, B.C. Interior homes holding value
Real estate news these days is all about prices falling dramatically but looking at the…
Osoyoos family in court for $8 million debt on $3 million home
An Osoyoos couple is being taken to court in an effort to get them to…
Kelowna wants to create more affordable housing but will wait for more studies
After almost two hours of discussion about the dire need for affordable housing in Kelowna,…