10 h. ago Rennie lays off 31 employees, cites uncertain real estate market and 'structural' change

Condo-marketing mogul Bob Rennie's company said it needed to reduce its head office from 123 to 92 people in a time of uncertainty

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15 h. ago Vancouver real estate firm lays off staff amid ‘challenging’ market

In an email to employees on Thursday, rennie president Greg Zayadi said it was a difficult day for everyone at the company. They laid off 31 members of staff.

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20 h. ago Conversations That Matter: Real estate reality in Metro Vancouver

How Trump uncertainty is remaking Metro's real estate market

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7 d. ago This Day in History, 1910: Hype abounds during Vancouver's biggest population boom

The population of Vancouver and its environs exploded after 1900, and real estate companies promoted new neighbourhoods, towns and resorts.

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2 w. ago Pace of rent increases slows, but housing costs still rising in Metro Vancouver

Nearly 40 per cent of Metro Vancouver households are renters, and the report said the 'trend toward renting continues'

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2 w. ago Outrageously colourful cluster of towers will be unlike anything else in Toronto

Ambitious plans surfaced in April for a proposal to redevelop a tract of City of Toronto-owned lands at a major transit hub with a multi-tower residential community that would look like nothing else in town.The sprawling site at 2444 Eglinton Avenue East, a commuter parking lot just north of Kennedy GO and TTC station and adjacent auto body shop, is set to be redeveloped with three new residential towers.But unlike the monotonous blue-grey glass Toronto residents are used to, these towers would feature wildly colourful designs from Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects.The City's real estate asset management agency, CreateTO, has long planned to leverage this and other sites adjacent to transit, launching the Housing Now initiative in 2019 to activate underutilized City lands and work with private developers to get affordable housing built.CreateTO announced in January 2024 that Civic Developments, Windmill Developments, and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto...

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2 w. ago Is it time for Canada to relax restrictions on foreign buyers and investment in real estate?

Tariff uncertainty has stalled already tepid activity in the pre-sales market, reigniting talk about the pros and cons of foreign buyer rules

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