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Housing
New York City is nearly banning Airbnb, should the Thompson-Okanagan follow?
Recent reviews on the impact of short-term rentals in the Okanagan show they're replacing a…
BC man rents apartment for $5,700 per month, stops paying over wine cooler
A man moved into an apartment in Vancouver in 2020 to find the wine cooler…
BC Interior housing prices 50% higher than five years ago
While the price of a home has declined in the BC Interior since peaking in…
Kamloops and Kelowna lagging behind in new home construction
Despite the huge demand for housing in Canada, the country as a whole, along with…
New Kelowna tower proposal aims to build community from ground up
The One Water Street project, with its two highrise towers, has helped transform downtown Kelowna.…
Parking at Prospera Place in Kelowna to be cut drastically if three highrises built
When Prospera Place was built as the home of the Kelowna Rockets in 2019 it…
Kelowna ‘pre-zoning’ hundreds of single family homes for fourplexes to meet housing demand
Hundreds if not thousands of single-family lots in Kelowna will be "pre-zoned" likely by the…
Residents fear Naramata housing project will change neighbourhood
Following years of controversy and resistance from local residents, Penticton City Council is moving forward…
Long-awaited plan for Kelowna Tolko site includes 3,500 homes, parks, waterfront walkway
The long-awaited Tolko Mill Site Area Development Plan is going to Kelowna city council with…
BC slaps Kamloops with new housing target that doesn’t add up
In May, the province targeted 10 BC communities it deemed to be in greatest need…
Kamloops mayor rebuked for trying to find shelter for disabled homeless man
B.C. Housing says the mayor of Kamloops has a pattern of showing up at its…
Speed up housing builds by getting the province out of the ‘roads’: Kelowna planner
The federal government has given builders a major boost by eliminating the GST on rental…
Peachland home sells for $3M; almost twice as much as two years ago
An older house on 1.17 acres of land overlooking Okanagan Lake sold for more than…
Two years and still waiting to build a house in Lake Country
While the province is pushing to get more homes built faster, officials with the District…
Westbank First Nation outshining Okanagan cities on new home construction
When it comes to issuing building permits for new housing, the tiny Westbank First Nation…