Plan in the works for 652-acre neighbourhood in Kelowna's north-end
Developers have begun a masterplan for the development of 652 acres of McKinley Beach’s hillside in the Kelowna's north-end.
Developers have begun a masterplan for the development of 652 acres of McKinley Beach’s hillside in the Kelowna's north-end.
When the City of Kelowna tried to encourage developers and homeowners to produce more houses on existing lots in its urban neighbourhoods two years ago, it had an immediate effect.
A commercial property in the heart of Kelowna has gone up for sale for $11,760,000.
Vernon’s Predator Ridge resort community is not only looking to build a gondola, the global luxury brand Ritz-Carlton is set to build vacation homes.
The City of Kelowna was far ahead of the provincial government when it streamlined higher density housing in core areas almost two years ago.
A recent real estate report has good news for home buyers in the southern Interior. There are more houses on the market and lower prices around Kamloops and the Okanagan.
A Kelowna realtor has been fined $15,000 for contravening the Real Estate Services Act.
Upcoming demolition on the Columbia Precinct land in Kamloops has local leaders looking forward to more housing stock downtown.
The former Northbridge Hotel in Kamloops is officially on the table for developers that want to rebuild the site.
Two BC government buildings in Kamloops are soon to be flattened as the province plans to replace them with housing.
A West Kelowna woman was ordered to pay $500 in damages to her neighbour’s pool because her friend’s dog broke through the fence, got into the pool and damaged it.
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops.
UBC won't make public the engineering reports for the construction site in downtown Kelowna that caused the evacuation of a subsidized housing complex.
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site.
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby is warning real estate investors and speculators that his government is tilting the rules towards families seeking homes as it tightens the rules on short-term rentals.
The BC government is building 40 housing units in Kelowna to support those struggling with mental health and addiction with additional units to be built in Kamloops.
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates.
Residents evacuated from a supportive housing complex next door to a massive UBC Okanagan construction project building a highrise tower in downtown Kelowna feel like they've been left in the dark as work resumes.
Sun Peaks near Kamloops is one of three ski communities in the province where foreigners are banned from buying houses, and the mountain resort municipality wants to change that.
While more aurora borealis activity is predicted, Kamloops and the Okanagan haven’t seen much of it yet.
Residents of the building next to the UBC Okanagan construction site for a highrise will be out of their homes for at least another two weeks due to safety concerns.
Real estate sales in Kamloops and Okanagan in March were down significantly compared to last year.
The upcoming federal budget will include a $6-billion infrastructure fund to support homebuilding as well as a $400 million top-up to the housing accelerator fund, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
A BC renter spurred a Residential Tenancy Branch investigation when he reported that his landlord threatened to change the locks.
A subsidized housing building next to UBC Okanagan’s downtown construction site is being evacuated, but the university has yet to take any responsibility.
A couple living on Kamloops' North Shore reported a recreational drone was hovering around their house and property a couple of days ago.
There was a meeting today for residents of an apartment building across from the site of the new UBC Okanagan tower, where residents heard the news that they will have to vacate their homes.
The City of Kelowna is looking at changing the way it charges homeowners for the rain and melted snow that runs off their properties.
VANCOUVER - A federal government announcement that rental history could be used on a credit score is a "game changer" for those who have been faithfully paying their rent for years, said a longtime advocate of the idea.
Property owners on what amounts to a private beach on Okanagan Lake say it’s illegal for the city to designate their properties for future parks and they will take all legal steps possible to stop them.
While all BC communities with populations of more than 5,000 have to allow up to four homes on single-family lots under new provincial housing rules, rural areas are also being told to densify.
Property owners along a Manhattan Point beach with no public access are ticked off at the City of Kelowna for thinking of taking it away from them.
The most expensive house listed for sale in the Okanagan – and maybe the second highest in all of BC – is the $45.9 million Waterside Farm on Pixton Road in Lake Country.
With new single-family houses selling for $1 million or more in the Thompson-Okanagan region, the dream of house ownership is out of reach for many.
A woman who grew up in the foster care system in Kamloops has spent most of her life on and off of the streets, moving from placement to placement, and self-medicating with drugs and alcohol.
The BC Utilities Commission has approved FortisBC's request to maintain the cost of natural gas as of April 1.
A Kamloops man in his 70s is looking for a place to move to with his wife and stepdaughter after they were evicted from a rental unit they’ve been in since 2017.
One of the key things most Kelowna residents want to see as the North End redevelops is a lakefront pathway all the way from Knox Mountain to the Bennett bridge.
Central Mobile Home Park is the final resting place for 134 manufactured homes that are mostly around 50 years old and waiting for the wrecking ball that will come when the park is eventually redeveloped for modern housing.
While February wasn’t a banner month in the BC real estate world, it was a big improvement over a year ago with growth in both sales and prices.
A Kamloops homeowner is living on the financial brink after losing a battle to live in a suite he built in a garage on his property.
The 93-unit Whitewater Mobile Home Park in Penticton is listed for sale for $14.9 million.
A new online petition created by the Friends and Residents of the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area Society is pleading for the City of Kelowna’s heritage conservation areas to be protected.
BC Tree Fruits has been selling off its buildings in Kelowna for the last few years and has now added its plant in the downtown’s North End.
A Kamloops search and rescue volunteer hosted several families seeking refuge from the Russian-Ukraine war over the past two years.
It’s been seven months since wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes in the Okanagan and Shuswap yet rebuilds are just now starting to get underway.
The Bennett bridge stretches a mere kilometre across Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and West Bank First Nations lands.
There have been a number of sales of manufactured home parks in the Central Okanagan in recent years that have forced owners of the low-cost units out – or may soon do so.
A BC woman could have saved enough for a down payment with the amount she stiffed her landlords over five years.
So far, 40 people have moved from Kelowna’s homeless shelters into the individual tiny home units at Step Place on Crowley Avenue.
A Kamloops resident who loves cats and crochet put the two together and made some cat-sized comfortable couches.
The asking rental price for one-bedroom apartments fell marginally in Canada in February compared to January.
After a sluggish winter the real estate market is picking up in Kamloops and the Okanagan with the number of sales climbing significantly in February from January.
RCMP regularly report to local governments on the crime scene in each of their communities in the Thompson-Okanagan region.
Whenever the City of Kelowna announces a big land purchase, reporters scurry to the BC Assessment website and write headlines screaming out how many times more than the assessed value was paid in taxpayers’ dollars.
Penticton has plans to rezone part of downtown 1,500 housing units can be built at part of a new Innovation District.
As communities throughout the Thompson-Okanagan region struggle to get home built in the midst of a housing crisis, Penticton is considering a pilot project to help non-profits fund new affordable housing.
Peachland man Ryan King has 60 days to remove his dwelling from his property or he will face hefty fines and end up in provincial court.
A new survey says a majority of British Columbians are in favour of the province's new housing guidelines.
A lawsuit filed over a botched home and land sale shows how the frenzy of speculators drove up prices of residential real estate at the peak of Kelowna’s housing market and the case appears to be contingent on a finding of whether the selling realtor misled buyers.
City Staff are asking Kelowna City Council to not permit the three towers, set to be built in the Prospera Place parking lot, reach 26 storeys.
While the dream of home ownership includes the reality of at least a 5% down payment, the reality is that an affordable mortgage requires much more than that for the average earner.
Every city in the province is unique and most would resent being compared to Kelowna.
Thousands are without power in Lake Country this morning.
Building has started on Kelowna’s second batch of tiny homes for homeless residents.
From the City of Kelowna to the federal government, the flavour of the day for Canada’s housing crisis seems to be to build more rentals for the middle class.
Being unhoused and living in a tent is an everyday challenge, but it gets harder in the winter. Hygiene, safety and health are constantly being tested in the cold, humid, mouldy and wet environment residents of Kelowna's tent city along the Okanagan Rail Trail live in.
With the cost of living and the rate of homelessness continuing to rise, it may be hard to comprehend why the City of Kelowna is proposing to build more housing for the middle class.
New provincial rules to allow up to four units to be built on most single-family lots in BC has led to lots of confusion in city halls and residential neighbourhoods across the province.
A big, beautiful colonial-style house in Kamloops has a long and fascinating history of ownership by many prominent families over the decades.
The province, through BC Housing, has spent big bucks in the past five years trying to improve housing options for those most in need in the Thompson-Okanagan region.
A death doula in Kelowna is passionate about her work, despite the controversy it comes with.
Statistics issued every month only tell part of the real estate story in the Central Okanagan.
A well-known Kamloops music shop may soon be the site of a five-storey condo building.
Canada hit an historically low rental vacancy rate in 2023 but West Kelowna not only increased its vacancy rate it's one of few Canadian cities to have what is considered a healthy vacancy rate.
For anyone buying a new home at the end of 2022, the direction their equity took over the following year was vastly different depending on whether they lived in Kelowna or Kamloops.
Kelowna city council expressed concerns around BC Housing's Middle Income Housing Partnership plan, which proposes leasing city-owned land to developers at a low price in order to create more affordable homes for middle-income residents.
Despite an extreme cold snap earlier in the month, real estate markets in the Southern Interior were surprisingly strong in January.
The details are coming out on how the City of Kelowna is going to comply with provincial rules to crowd more housing onto most single-family lots.
Kelowna city council has plans to lease city-owned land to developers at minimal cost in exchange for more affordable housing. But low income renters will not be benefiting.
There was a glimmer of hope last week that some exemptions could be made to new provincial short-term rental rules so some housing that was built and sold for that purpose could continue.
Canada’s rental vacancy rate dropped to 1.5% in 2023 from 1.9% in 2022, the lowest ever recorded since Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation started compiling data in 1988.
Walking into Plant Gather immediately engulfs one in the smell of a jungle's thick humidity. It's a calming, therapeutic and unique experience and it's what this exotic plant store in Kelowna has come to be known for.
The Osoyoos Indian Band has partnered with the provincial government to build affordable on-reserve rental housing.
West Kelowna is the latest of the Okanagan’s largest cities to respond to new provincial regulations on short-term rentals.
It doesn’t seem like a lot on a multi-million dollar project but $500 per unit can make or break major rental building construction in Kelowna.
Thousands of Kelowna and West Kelowna residents have signed a petition demanding fair treatment for people who live in manufactured home communities.
It was 3 a.m. on Sunday when Bonnie Jackson went to the bathroom and happened to look out the window onto the dark Kamloops street and saw something that shocked her.
An unlicensed property manager in BC was hit with fines and costs of more than $125,000 last month.
A vacant BC Housing apartment building in Kamloops had a pipe burst as temperatures plummeted last week.
While Kelowna city council has moved ahead with changes to its short-term rental rules that are tougher than what the province has proposed, it’s still going to be a challenge to crack down on the bad apples in the market.
At the tail end of the worst year in a decade for home sales, activity in the BC real estate market picked up in December both in terms of sales and prices.
Glenn Hilke is resting at home today after spending the night collecting the homeless off Kamloops and helping them find shelter overnight when temperatures were at -36 Celsius with the windchill.
Most single-family properties in communities of 5,000 or more from Kamloops to Osoyoos could get three storeys of housing built on them with no public input.
A heavy-duty mechanic who lost his home, workshop and tools in a devastating fire near Kamloops on Christmas Eve was gifted with replacement tools by a kind stranger who read the tragic story.
Residents in Naramata are concerned about controversial new housing developments in the area because their community is not protected by the province’s short term rental legislation.
It was New Year’s Day and my son was playing happily with some new building blocks he’d gotten for Christmas. I saw my chance to sneak in some yoga and quietly unfurled my mat on the other side of the living room.
High interest rates soured the 2023 real estate market in Kamloops in the Okanagan.