Real Estate

A Vancouver Realtor has been handed a nine-month conditional sentence and ordered to pay more than $100,000 after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion.

A B.C. real estate agent has been ordered to pay $50,000 for misconduct while managing a property for a former client without proper licensing.

A B.C. real estate agent has had his licence suspended for six months and agreed to pay more than $200,000 to a provincial regulator after admitting he improperly purchased a home that was designated for affordable housing.

A weak market in the Lower Mainland is weighing on homes sales in British Columbia, with both transactions and average prices falling in July.

A former mortgage broker has been banned from returning to the profession in B.C. after the provincial regulator found he submitted false or misleading information to lenders in every application investigators reviewed.

The latest rent report from Rentals.ca finds asking rents are still dropping across Canada, but North Vancouver and Vancouver are the most expensive cities in the country.

British Columbia’s housing minister says her government is working with Ottawa to help fund the infrastructure needed as it pushes to build more homes in the province.

A private island estate off B.C.’s Sunshine Coast has sold for $13 million, setting a record for a residential sale in the area.

Vancouver’s real estate board says the region saw a nearly 10 per cent drop in home sales in July compared with a year ago, erasing June’s gains that kicked off the summer.

Two men and a numbered company have been ordered to pay more than $57,000 in penalties for their roles in converting part of a Vancouver commercial building into 11 illegal single-room occupancy housing units.

A B.C. landlord has been fined $7,700 for making multiple misleading statements during dispute resolution hearings before arbitrators from the province’s Residential Tenancy Branch.

An oceanfront estate in West Vancouver, part of which was designed by one of Canada’s most renowned architects, has hit the market for just under $50 million.

A B.C. real estate agent has agreed to pay her profession’s provincial regulator more than $33,000 to resolve allegations that she managed rental properties without a licence to do so.

A B.C. mortgage broker has received the maximum penalty for conducting business while unregistered, according to the profession’s provincial regulator.

A B.C. mortgage broker has agreed to pay more than $28,000 to a provincial regulator after admitting to conducting business “in a manner prejudicial to the public interest.”