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Foreign Capital and Canadian Housing: Are We Reopening the Door or Rewriting the Rules?

As Canada’s federal foreign buyer ban nears its January 2027 expiry, the industry is asking whether offshore capital can be redirected toward building rental housing — instead of repeating the affordability pressures Vancouver has already lived through. Foreign buyers are back in the housing conversation. Not because the issue is new. In British Columbia, especially …

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Unsold Condos, Public Money, and the “Bailout” Question

Across British Columbia, housing affordability remains one of the most important public policy issues in the province. Families are looking for homes they can afford. Renters are facing pressure from high monthly costs. Developers are dealing with higher construction costs, financing challenges, and slower sales in parts of the condo market. That has created an …

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Generation Rent Has a New Landlord.

Homeownership is no longer the default for most Canadians under 40. The country’s largest, most professionally underwritten pools of capital have already drawn their conclusions — and are buying accordingly. Here is what the institutional shift into rental housing actually looks like, and how an individual can position inside it instead of behind it. For …