Housing

Putting ‘slumping’ Kamloops, Okanagan real estate prices into perspective
While housing prices are down from their peak in the spring, it’s all relative. Real…

B.C. couple fined $7K by strata over plants win legal victory
A B.C. strata that fined a condo owner $7,400 for placing potted plants around their…

Kelowna high-rise rental tower should help with housing affordability
Kelowna’s Mission Group is moving ahead with plans to build what its executive vice-president Luke…

Real estate prices drop for condos but rise for houses in Okanagan, Kamloops
Prices for all homes in Kamloops and the Okanagan are up from where they were…

Kamloops, Kelowna ski chalets selling as vacation homes, not rental units
The world of ski hill real estate has changed drastically through COVID. In the years…

Six-storey condo building proposed neighbouring new Kelowna waterfront park
Three single-family lots that were bought last year for $9.5 million could be developed into…

HOUSING CRISIS: Single Kamloops mom packing up with nowhere to go
A Kamloops mother of two says she will be homeless as of Nov. 1 if…

New 40-storey highrise tower proposal part of ‘gateway’ to downtown Kelowna
A 40-storey tower proposed for downtown Kelowna is the start of the redevelopment of the…

‘Shocking’: Kamloops non-profits blindsided by CMHA decision not to operate shelters
Out of the Cold Kamloops was blindsided by a shelter operator's decision not to run…

Authorities investigating unsafe, shuttered Kamloops apartment
The Residential Tenancy Branch's compliance and enforcement team is investigating the landlord of a shuttered…

Rate hike punched another hole in sinking Thompson-Okanagan real estate market: Realtor
As expected, the Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate by another 0.5% today,…

Construction booming in Kamloops, Okanagan as real estate market slows
Ever increasing interest rates – including the half a percentage point hike to the key…

Why a Kamloops shelter refused evicted tenants of derelict apartment
When Kamloops firefighters were preparing to shutter a local apartment for its dangerous and dilapidated…

Derelict apartment shuttered by Kamloops fire department leaving residents scrambling
Dion Livingstone used to help manage a men's housing facility in downtown Kamloops. Now the…

Despite falling prices in Okanagan, Kamloops homes worth $200K more than before pandemic
The Okanagan and Kamloops, like the rest of Canada, are seeing a sharp decline in…