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A senior who has lived in the same apartment for more than 20 years has won the right to stay at least a little longer, after the B.C. Supreme Court overturned her eviction last week.
A B.C. real estate agent who failed to notify the provincial regulator that he had been charged with – and later that he had been convicted of – soliciting sexual services has had his licence cancelled.
In 1996, Harjinder Cheema purchased a 4.3-acre property on 152 Street in Surrey. He paid $690,000 for the site, which included a modest, one-storey home with a finished basement, and was zoned for agricultural use.
Mounties in Richmond are warning the public to be on guard for rental deposit scams after receiving five reports from victims in less than two months.
British Columbia has set new housing targets for a group of 10 more municipalities with the goal of meeting housing demands in the province.
A Vancouver Island real estate agent will pay a $20,000 penalty for misconduct after failing to investigate if an oceanfront home was on an Indigenous archaeological site.
B.C.’s real estate industry regulator is asking property owners in and around the province’s capital for assistance in an ongoing investigation into alleged unlicensed activity by a local woman and her company.
A decision ordering a developer to pay pre-sale condo buyers more than $13 million in damages for breach of contract has been overturned on appeal, with the high court dismissing the case entirely.
Sales of homes in British Columbia grew in July compared with the same month last year, but year-to-date numbers show transactions remain slower.
Sitting on two acres on a B.C. island, a five-storey castle with a dining hall, eight bedrooms, three turrets and a dungeon is on the market for $440,000.
Vancouver-area home sales were down two per cent in July compared with last year, as the city’s real estate board says it continues to believe the market is showing early signs of recovery.
A B.C. landlord who sold a rental property failed to convince a judge the buyers – who never moved into the home – should be on the hook for compensating wrongfully evicted tenants, according to a recent decision.
A landlord who evicted her tenant so that she and her family could move into the property, then seemingly offered to re-rent the property to the tenant for double what he had been paying, will have to pay him $30,100 in compensation after losing in B.C. Supreme Court last week.
The City of Vancouver is looking at opening more avenues to home ownership.
A Vancouver man and his company have been ordered to pay a total of $80,000 to B.C.’s real estate regulator after admitting to providing property management services without a licence for more than eight years.
A B.C. Realtor who lost a court case against a former client earlier this year has now had his licence cancelled by the provincial real estate regulator.
