When someone says the market is weak, they respond with a tourism brochure. “But people love Vancouver.” Correct. People also love Paris, New York, Tokyo, Sydney and beachfront property in places that flood. Desire is not the same as affordability, and demand is not the same as unlimited purchasing power.

For decades, zoning was the most boring powerful thing in Vancouver real estate. It lived in PDFs. It hid behind acronyms. It appeared at council meetings after dinner, when normal people had already lost the will to live. It sounded harmless: setbacks, floor space ratios, parking minimums, district schedules, ODPs, TOAs, SSMUH, CACs, DCLs, ACCs, and other little civic goblins that quietly decide whether a city becomes livable or turns into a museum of detached houses with basement suites and moral superiority.

Why Vancouver’s condo problem is not just “too much housing” — it is too much of the wrong housing, sold to the wrong buyer, at the wrong price, with the wrong math. No, it is not this stupid everywhere.

Why your assessment notice may say you are rich, your bank may say “prove it,” and the market may say “good luck”. There is a special kind of emotional support document in British Columbia real estate.

How B.C.’s new 4% Speculation and Vacancy Tax changes the math for foreign owners, satellite families, vacant homes, luxury properties, stretched mortgages, and anyone still treating Metro Vancouver real estate like a safety deposit box with windows

For years, Vancouver’s rental market has been described in almost permanent crisis language. Not tight, not competitive, not expensive—but structurally short. A “rental shortage” has become the default explanation for high prices, rapid leasing, and relentless demand.