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Vancouver: Vision Vancouver and Vancouver Grizzly

vancouver: Sun Yat-Sen garden as otter continues to evade capture Vision Vancouver will not run a mayoral candidate for first time in party's history'Bella Dolls' sex doll brothel has opened in Vancouver Grizzly bear kills woman, 10-month-old baby in Yukon, coroner saysrelated Home sales across B.C. to bounce back next year, claims forecast Home prices will continue to soften' over next two years forecast Detached home prices will soar after three-year slump analyst Opinion Five bad things for renters and three good under mooted vacancy control Would-be buyers sidelined in Metro region Despite a 35 per cent plunge in Lower Mainland housing sales this year, home prices remain the highest in Canada while rising mortgage rates will also help to keep buyers sidelined, according to Vancouver Courier. As of October there were more than 20,000 homes for sale through the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver REBGV and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, up 42 per cent from a year earlier, as sales cratered in both markets. In Metro Vancouver, the real winners in 2019 will be existing residential landlords who can expect high demand, less competition and low vacancy rates, based on Western Investor's analysis for its annual residential investment outlook. article continues below Trending Stories One koi rescued, three remain at Dr. Yet the composite benchmark home price in the Lower Mainland is 995,000 nearly twice as high as the national average and up 2.9 per cent from October 2017, according to the REBGV. The benchmark detached-house price, now at 1.28 million, is down 2.7 per cent from the same period last year. The majority of the newcomers will be renters, because Metro Vancouver has the least affordable homes in Canada, based on home prices and incomes, according to both the Royal Bank of Canada and Zoocasa Realty Inc. The Metro region will welcome 59,300 new residents this year and another 61,000 in 2019, more than 90 per cent of whom will move into the Lower Mainland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.