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Housing
Preventing homelessness one rent payment at a time in Kamloops, Okanagan
The B.C. Rent Bank is helping prevent hundreds of B.C. residents, including some in Kamloops…
Cost of building carriage houses in Kelowna may go up $20,000
Already the most expensive city in the Interior of B.C. for housing, the City of…
How Okanagan, Kamloops post-secondary students (and parents) can avoid rental scams
An extremely tight rental market means people are desperate to find places to live. That’s…
Vernon’s tallest building approved by council
Three 10-storey apartment buildings have been proposed for Vernon. The condo development will feature 270…
Why ‘land assembly’ signs are popping up on several Kelowna streets
In the booming Kelowna real estate market, for sale signs proliferate in front of hundreds…
Four-plexes set to replace housing in Kelowna, Kamloops
Kamloops residents will soon be joining their Kelowna counterparts in seeing massive four-plexes popping up…
Vernon to look at solutions to ‘RV issue,’ again
Vernon council is set to have another stab at the issue of RVs parked permanently…
Home prices dropping in Kamloops but rising in parts of the Okanagan
High interest rates have driven down housing prices across Canada including the southern Interior. Kamloops…
Kelowna edges out Kamloops for first complex care homes in B.C. Interior
Even though Kamloops seemed a shoe-in the get the first complex care housing in the…
iN PHOTOS: At $7M this could be most expensive house ever sold in Peachland
Despite a real estate market that has cooled off considerably this year after a wild…
Okanagan real estate market faring better than Kamloops and rest of B.C.
After a record-setting 2021, it’s only reasonable that the pace of housing sales in B.C.…
Is Kelowna’s Gospel Mission finally going to move?
In 2005, the City of Kelowna and Kelowna's Gospel Mission launched a plan to relocate…
Putting Kamloops, Okanagan housing prices in national perspective
A lot of talk these days is about the unaffordable housing in places like Kelowna…
Cost to rent one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna surges past $1,800 mark
The cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna jumped 5.8% in August versus July,…
Renters in Kamloops, Kelowna struggle more than homeowners to afford shelter: StatsCan
When it comes to households struggling to pay their shelter costs, it’s more manageable for…