by Jasroop Gosal | Sep 9, 2025 | Guest Columns
In British Columbia, five million residents live in condominiums and other stratified housing. Recent municipal and provincial policies that push for densification will only increase that number. That means the dream of safe and secure homeownership in the province...
by Paul Abbott | Sep 8, 2025 | Guest Columns
Canada’s housing crisis has become a national policy priority, and for good reason. Affordability is at generational lows, rental markets are straining under record population growth, and homebuilding has slowed even as demand rises. Governments have responded with...
by Diana Faria | Sep 8, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
Branch staff aren’t just the friendly faces your clients see when they first visit your office. They’re the air traffic controllers, directing people, paperwork, and problems to the correct avenues to be handled as quickly as possible. But if there ever was a...
by Don Kottick | Aug 28, 2025 | Guest Columns
In real estate, we usually leave government advocacy to our industry associations, like the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) or the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). They are well-equipped to represent Realtors on the big policy issues that affect housing...
by Daniel Kreines | Aug 27, 2025 | Guest Columns
For over 65,000 people across British Columbia, manufactured home parks (commonly called mobile home parks or trailer parks) represent one of the last paths to affordable homeownership. In smaller and more rural communities, these home parks can account for as much...
by Slava Kolmatskyy | Aug 15, 2025 | Guest Columns
Canada’s housing market is transforming fast—and so are the financial tools fueling new construction. One such program for multi-unit residential developers is CMHC’s MLI Select, a solution that rewards socially responsible builds with access to high-leverage...
