Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson declared the Canadian city’s new tax on empty homes a success this week, thanking the absentee owners of 8,500 properties for paying up. He was less conclusive about ...

Vancouver has become the first major city in Canada to regulate short-term housing rentals such as Airbnb, a move the mayor hopes will yield more long-term rental housing in a city with a vacancy rate ...

Jerrad Isch walks down the exterior stairs of his Airbnb in Vancouver. He been renting out the unit for about five years and says that it has been a largely positive experience for him and his ...

Vancouver is seeing a clear and continuing shift away from adding homes for people to own and toward more rental housing. Slightly more than half of Vancouver households rent, census data show, and ...

Rents for one-bedroom apartments in the Vancouver area are the priciest in Canada, but they’re not anywhere close to the most expensive in the world. That was at least $100 lower than average rents ...

Vancouver now has the distinction of being the only major city in Canada where it is cheaper to own than rent. Median shelter cost for a property owner is $110 less than the median shelter cost of a ...