Richmond’s hotspot, No.3 Road and Westminster Highway, is about to get even hotter with the addition of the Mandarin Residences (The Wall Group of Companies with The Fairborne Group). Location, location, location! The Mandarin Residences is across the street from Richmond Centre where you find large retailers such as The Bay, Sport Chek, Old Navy, [...]

A few weeks ago we got our hands on a leaked rendering of Vancouver Real Estate’s most daring architectural proposal by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) architects. There is now more known about the project, thanks to Jlousa at SSP.com for sending this out, as an application to rezone the site has been received by the city [...]

Building on the success of Origin, Porte Development introduces Lift. High atop Burnaby mountain, Lift offers contemporary 1 bedroom and 1 + den flats, plus 2, 2 + den and 3 bedroom gardenhomes and skyhomes. Lift is the pinnacle of sustainable design, contemporary details combined with urban amenities and acres of nature trails just outside [...]

The value of building permits isssued in Metro Vancouver jumped by more than 42 per cent from May to June, almost entirely due to multi-family residential permits, Statistics Canada reported this morning. The value of permits rose from $370 million to more than $529 million, the federal data-gathering agency said. The June total represents an [...]

Christine McLaren – More than 80 years ago, the Pennsylvania Hotel’s newly erected neon sign illuminated the path of those rounding the corner of Hastings and Carrall Streets. Once one of the city’s most luxurious hotels, a favorite of wealthy travelers and businessmen, it eventually fell into vacant disrepair as economic hardship hit the neighbourhood. [...]