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Rental Housing
BC’s annual allowable rent increase capped below inflation rate
British Columbia has set the maximum allowable rent increase for 2024 at 3.5%, and for…
Rental units proposed for Kelowna near Orchard Park mall
Kelowna council will decide whether to allow the development of more than 180 units to…
Massive rental housing project planned for Kelowna
A 401-unit, five-building rental apartment project across from Orchard Park mall in Kelowna is headed…
Princeton families suffering with rental housing crunch
A Princeton family is feeling the pressure of the town’s less than 1% rental vacancy…
Kelowna’s rental apartment building boom has yet to boost vacancy rates
There have been about 1,400 new rental apartments built in Kelowna in the past two…
Free rent offers rare in Okanagan and Kamloops
KELOWNA – With rental vacancy rates lingering below two per cent in Kamloops and the…
Kelowna’s rental housing stock is getting old: report
KELOWNA – The city’s first ever Rental Housing Inventory shows that the majority of rentals…
Kelowna remains one of the most expensive cities in Canada to rent
KELOWNA – Two agencies that publish monthly rental rate updates across Canada found radically different…
Rental rates dropped slightly in Kelowna in May
KELOWNA – Monthly rental reports from two online rental sites show that rent in Kelowna…
B.C. Housing helping out middle-income Kelowna families with rental housing
KELOWNA – Those having a tough time finding a place to rent in Kelowna can…
Cost of renting an apartment jumped 16.5 per cent in Kelowna last month, or did it?
KELOWNA – A new report issued today by Rentals.ca says the cost of renting a…
Make homes more affordable? Kelowna council priorities put to the test Monday
KELOWNA – The top two priorities in Kelowna’s Healthy Housing strategy, adopted less than a…
More housing units doesn’t translate into savings for Kelowna renters
KELOWNA – Despite thousands of new rental units being built in the past few years,…
Kelowna gives up $1.3 million in rental housing taxes
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council exempted 256 proposed new rental housing units from taxes today.…
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…
More grants for rental housing developers as Kelowna fights abysmal vacancy rate
KELOWNA – Its been six years since they city began offering incentives to developers to…
Love ’em or hate ’em, carriage houses in Kelowna are here to stay
KELOWNA – Carriage houses, nanny suites, granny flats — whatever you want to to call…
The Shore development in Kelowna close to final approval
KELOWNA – The development proposal for six storey commercial and residential project in the Mission…
Kamloops hotels and motel association thinks AirBnB users should be paying tax
KAMLOOPS – A group representing local hotels and motels wants the city to support a…
Kelowna pushing for larger family-friendly rental units with changes to grant program
HEIGHT CHANGE WILL ALLOW SIX STOREY APARTMENT BUILDINGS KELOWNA – The city is pretty happy…
Airbnb, short-term vacation rentals get Kelowna council’s attention
KELOWNA – Short-term rentals such as AirBnB are growing quickly and now the City of…
Kelowna signs more tax exemptions for rental unit developers
KELOWNA – The city has signed off on four tax agreements with the developers of…
Rental construction in Kelowna soars as developers wake up to incentives
KELOWNA – The incentives the City of Kelowna uses to encourage rental housing construction are…
RENTAL SHORTAGE: Kelowna’s working poor pushing into homeless shelters
NON-TRADITIONAL CLIENTS SHOWING UP IN INCREASING NUMBERS KELOWNA – The rental housing shortage that’s plaguing…