Our Guides
Expert Guides for Smart Moves
Explore our curated guides to navigate Metro Vancouver’s real estate with confidence. Whether you’re buying, selling, exploring neighborhoods, or learning about home styles, each guide is packed with insight, strategy, and practical tips — the same clarity and honesty behind Victoria Estate Digest.
Home Feature Guides
How Homes Work: Guides & Insights
Dive into guides that show what really matters in a house, from construction and materials to design choices and practical usability. Learn what questions to ask, what to watch for, and how to spot hidden issues so every feature—from tennis courts and home gyms to outdoor spaces and custom rooms—delivers the value it promises. These guides give the knowledge to assess every detail like an insider and avoid costly surprises.
Guides By Category
From tennis courts and home gyms to pools and saunas, these guides cover what makes activity spaces functional, durable, and safe. Learn what to look for in construction, materials, and design, what questions to ask, and how to spot hidden issues so every space is ready for regular use without surprises.
Guides By Category
These guides cover home features that directly impact usability, long-term value, and resale potential. From wine cellars and home theatres to legal suites and elevators, learn how to evaluate construction, quality, and functionality. Discover the questions to ask, hidden risks to watch for, and which features are truly worth the investment.
Guides By Category
These guides dive into the core of a home—from foundations and slabs to roofing, windows, and insulation. Discover how to evaluate construction quality, identify potential risks, and understand what makes a home solid, long-lasting, and low-maintenance. Learn which questions reveal hidden problems and which features truly impact usability.
Guides By Category
From grading and drainage to retaining walls, landscaping, and outdoor living spaces, these guides show how to assess usability, durability, and safety. Learn the questions to ask, the warning signs to watch for, and how to make sure every outdoor feature performs as expected year-round.
Guides By Category
Covers the often-overlooked systems that keep a home functional—HVAC, electrical, plumbing, smart home systems, backup power, and heating. Learn how to evaluate performance, reliability, and future readiness, and which questions help uncover hidden problems before they become costly surprises.
Guides By Category
Guides on features that add convenience, functionality, or flexibility—workshops, storage rooms, craft rooms, to secondary kitchens, pet spaces, and home offices. Learn how to assess construction, usability, and long-term value, and which questions separate well-built features from gimmicks.
Your Preferences
Don`t Know What to Go With?
Take the Quiz: Discover the Home That Fits You Perfectly
The Quiz Every BC Homebuyer Needs to Take.
The Vancouver housing market is crowded with choices. Do you want to live in a bustling condo near the SkyTrain? A quiet cul-de-sac in Surrey? A heritage-style house in New Westminster? Or maybe a modern townhouse in Burnaby close to schools and shopping?
We live in an age where homeownership has slipped out of reach for so many—not just because of the brutal affordability crisis, but because people are often looking in the wrong places, asking the wrong questions, or listening to the wrong voices. Too many are trapped by stigma, misinformation, or the social pressure to buy the “right” home in the “right” city, when in reality, that path often leads to debt, anxiety, and broken families.
Real estate decisions are easier when you know yourself and the market. Take our interactive quizzes to uncover your home personality, discover the styles that suit you, and understand your home’s value. Each quiz gives actionable insight and helps you make smarter, more confident real estate decisions.




































