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Rental Housing
Massive rental housing project planned for Kelowna
A 401-unit, five-building rental apartment project across from Orchard Park mall in Kelowna is headed…
BC’s annual allowable rent increase capped below inflation rate
British Columbia has set the maximum allowable rent increase for 2024 at 3.5%, and for…
Kelowna remains one of the most expensive cities in Canada to rent
KELOWNA – Two agencies that publish monthly rental rate updates across Canada found radically different…
Rental rates dropped slightly in Kelowna in May
KELOWNA – Monthly rental reports from two online rental sites show that rent in Kelowna…
B.C. Housing helping out middle-income Kelowna families with rental housing
KELOWNA – Those having a tough time finding a place to rent in Kelowna can…
Cost of renting an apartment jumped 16.5 per cent in Kelowna last month, or did it?
KELOWNA – A new report issued today by Rentals.ca says the cost of renting a…
Make homes more affordable? Kelowna council priorities put to the test Monday
KELOWNA – The top two priorities in Kelowna’s Healthy Housing strategy, adopted less than a…
More housing units doesn’t translate into savings for Kelowna renters
KELOWNA – Despite thousands of new rental units being built in the past few years,…
Kelowna gives up $1.3 million in rental housing taxes
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council exempted 256 proposed new rental housing units from taxes today.…
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…
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…
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…
The Shore development in Kelowna close to final approval
KELOWNA – The development proposal for six storey commercial and residential project in the Mission…
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…
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 signs more tax exemptions for rental unit developers
KELOWNA – The city has signed off on four tax agreements with the developers of…
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…
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 suites could be coming to Kelowna’s ritziest neighbourhoods
KELOWNA – Homeowners in some of Kelowna’s toniest neighbourhoods could soon see secondary suites in…
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”…
Kelowna gives out grants for record number of rental units
KELOWNA – The city signed off on six housing rental agreements yesterday, covering 329 units,…
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…
Vacancy rate eases as Kelowna pushes rental housing construction
KELOWNA - The city has done a lot to encourge development of rental housing and there’s not too much more that can be done, except to let the incentives do their work and keep on pushing for more. That’s the opinion of Luke Stack, a city councillor and also executive director of the Society of...
Double dipping developers get go-ahead from city council
KELOWNA - A pair of micro suite developers have managed to “double dip” taking advantage of two different rental housing incentive programs for the same development. And while some Kelowna city councillors grumbled about the property tax and development cost charge revenue lost to the city, they were reminded staff are already working to close...