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Kelowna Housing
Builder’s association lobbying Kelowna council to stop changes to noise bylaw
Home builders in Kelowna are fighting to maintain construction noise hours on weekends and holidays.…
More than a third of Kelowna residents are renting, and it’s not just young people
From Gen Z to baby boomers rentership is increasing intergenerationally and Kelowna is among the…
More real estate listings and lower prices in Kamloops, Okanagan
A recent real estate report has good news for home buyers in the southern Interior.…
40 more affordable rental units open in Kelowna
New affordable rental homes are now available for people with low to moderate incomes in…
Kelowna vacancy rates improve but rents also go up
KELOWNA – The annual report on vacancy rates in Kelowna shows that the 0.2 per…
Housing strategy will see new housing forms, more protection of rental housing in Kelowna
KELOWNA – It has a benign sounding name — the Healthy Housing Strategy — but…
Housing crisis tearing Kelowna families apart
KELOWNA – The province’s watchdog for children and youth says the housing crisis in the…
Rental apartment building in downtown Kelowna a first in several decades
KELOWNA – A six-storey rental apartment building planned for Clement Avenue — one of the…
Too many carriage houses in Kelowna, not enough time
KELOWNA – Carriage houses are so popular now, Kelowna City Hall is considering not even…
Four major affordable housing projects coming to Kelowna
KELOWNA – At least four new projects aimed at helping the less fortunate find somewhere…
Kelowna releases housing study findings, and it’s not good
KELOWNA – A housing needs assessment report released by the City of Kelowna recently, paints…
Affordable housing and support coming to Kelowna
KELOWNA – The Good Night Inn will become affordable housing in Kelowna. Affordable housing and…
Provincial funding for affordable housing projects in Kelowna
KELOWNA – More than $18 million in government funding is coming to Kelowna for affordable…
Honomobo installs shipping container home at Kelowna mall
KELOWNA – A company that makes houses out of shipping containers has set one up…
Temporary worker housing approved for Okanagan orchardists
RUTLAND BENCH ORCHARD WILL HOUSE 60 TEMPORARY FARM WORKERS KELOWNA – Despite the objections of…
Kelowna experiments with small lot housing
KELOWNA – With house prices going up and vacancy rates in Kelowna hovering near historic…
Housing starts make double-digit jump in Kelowna
CENTRAL OKANAGAN - New house construction is climbing in the Central Okanagan, underscoring the strength in the local resale market. "Demand for new homes has matched supply, keeping inventories of completed and unabsorbed homes in check," Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation regional economist Carol Frketich says in a press release. In its preliminary housing starts...
Kelowna housing market numbers reach pre-financial crisis levels
KELOWNA - The Kelowna housing market has reached levels not seen since 2008, right before the global financial crisis, when the local market was red hot. Both single-family and multi-family housing starts as well as total residental sales have been trending upward since then, according the Canadian Mortage and Housing Corporation’s spring housing market outlook....