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Rental Housing
Kelowna renters struggling with low vacancy rate, high housing costs
KELOWNA – The city’s razor thin rental vacancy rate continues on well below one per…
Kelowna gives out grants for record number of rental units
KELOWNA – The city signed off on six housing rental agreements yesterday, covering 329 units,…
Fort Mac fire adding to Kelowna’s rental housing woes
KELOWNA – A long-time local property manager says the Kelowna rental housing market is “turbulent”…
Rental suites could be coming to Kelowna’s ritziest neighbourhoods
KELOWNA – Homeowners in some of Kelowna’s toniest neighbourhoods could soon see secondary suites in…
RENTAL SHORTAGE: Kelowna’s working poor pushing into homeless shelters
NON-TRADITIONAL CLIENTS SHOWING UP IN INCREASING NUMBERS KELOWNA – The rental housing shortage that’s plaguing…
Rental construction in Kelowna soars as developers wake up to incentives
KELOWNA – The incentives the City of Kelowna uses to encourage rental housing construction are…
Kelowna signs more tax exemptions for rental unit developers
KELOWNA – The city has signed off on four tax agreements with the developers of…
Airbnb, short-term vacation rentals get Kelowna council’s attention
KELOWNA – Short-term rentals such as AirBnB are growing quickly and now the City of…
Kelowna pushing for larger family-friendly rental units with changes to grant program
HEIGHT CHANGE WILL ALLOW SIX STOREY APARTMENT BUILDINGS KELOWNA – The city is pretty happy…
Kamloops hotels and motel association thinks AirBnB users should be paying tax
KAMLOOPS – A group representing local hotels and motels wants the city to support a…
The Shore development in Kelowna close to final approval
KELOWNA – The development proposal for six storey commercial and residential project in the Mission…
Love ’em or hate ’em, carriage houses in Kelowna are here to stay
KELOWNA – Carriage houses, nanny suites, granny flats — whatever you want to to call…
More grants for rental housing developers as Kelowna fights abysmal vacancy rate
KELOWNA – Its been six years since they city began offering incentives to developers to…
Rental apartment building in downtown Kelowna a first in several decades
KELOWNA – A six-storey rental apartment building planned for Clement Avenue — one of the…
Kelowna gives up $1.3 million in rental housing taxes
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council exempted 256 proposed new rental housing units from taxes today.…