Victoria Estate Digest is a Vancouver-based publication dedicated to in-depth real estate reporting, market trends, and analysis across British Columbia.

We cover what most prefer to ignore — from foreign capital and affordability crises to development loopholes, luxury speculation, and the structural forces shaping today’s housing market. Whether you’re a buyer, seller, renter, or simply trying to understand the city you live in, this platform exists to make sense of the noise.

This project came from noticing what was missing in the conversation around real estate in B.C. — depth, honesty, and a willingness to question the usual story. Before there was a website, before the first article was drafted, there was already a growing discomfort with how real estate was discussed in this province. Something always felt absent.

The data was there, but the depth wasn’t. The headlines were constant, but the context was shallow. The industry spoke in polished scripts, yet the public was left navigating a market that made less and less sense.

The earliest seeds of this project were planted not in real estate offices or newsrooms, but in places where journalism and observation collided. Years of immersion in writing, media, and law built a foundation that was part reporter, part analyst, part quiet observer.

Long before housing became the focus, there was already a deep curiosity about the systems behind the scenes — the ones influencing decisions, directing capital, and quietly rewriting what’s considered normal. We always had a fascination with the stories people don’t tell — and why they choose not to.

When real estate entered the frame, it wasn’t just as a product or a market, but as a mirror. A mirror of priorities, of inequality, of political theatre. And it quickly became clear: the biggest real estate story in B.C. wasn’t being told. At least not fully. It was being glossed over, fragmented, or drowned in euphemism. That’s where the real work began.

This platform wasn’t born out of ambition — it was born out of frustration. A frustration with hollow coverage, unquestioned norms, and a public conversation dominated by those who benefit most from the status quo. Victoria Estate Digest is a response to that silence. A quiet refusal to participate in the real estate pageantry without asking the harder questions.

And while the tools and tone may evolve, that original instinct — to push past surface-level narratives and explore what’s underneath — remains at the core of everything published here.

Enjoy,
Victoria Estate Digest Team