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BC's annual allowable rent increase capped below inflation rate
September 11, 2023 - 1:00 PM
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British Columbia has set the maximum allowable rent increase for 2024 at 3.5%, and for the second consecutive year it's well below the rate of inflation.
Massive rental housing project planned for Kelowna
March 07, 2022 - 3:30 PM
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A 401-unit, five-building rental apartment project across from Orchard Park mall in Kelowna is headed to a public hearing next week.
Kelowna’s rental apartment building boom has yet to boost vacancy rates
October 30, 2019 - 5:17 PM

There have been about 1,400 new rental apartments built in Kelowna in the past two years, with even more to come.
Free rent offers rare in Okanagan and Kamloops
September 12, 2019 - 3:30 PM

KELOWNA - With rental vacancy rates lingering below two per cent in Kamloops and the Okanagan for many years, offering free rent to get people to sign leases is something not generally seen.
Kelowna's rental housing stock is getting old: report
August 22, 2019 - 5:08 PM

KELOWNA - The city’s first ever Rental Housing Inventory shows that the majority of rentals in the city are 40 years old and mostly one or two bedrooms units.
Kelowna remains one of the most expensive cities in Canada to rent
August 18, 2019 - 6:00 AM

KELOWNA - Two agencies that publish monthly rental rate updates across Canada found radically different results for Kelowna in July.
Rental rates dropped slightly in Kelowna in May
June 17, 2019 - 5:45 PM

KELOWNA - Monthly rental reports from two online rental sites show that rent in Kelowna either fell 1.2 per cent or stayed the same between April and May.
B.C. Housing helping out middle-income Kelowna families with rental housing
May 24, 2019 - 12:12 PM

KELOWNA - Those having a tough time finding a place to rent in Kelowna can look forward to 157 new rental units opening up downtown by late next year.
Cost of renting an apartment jumped 16.5 per cent in Kelowna last month, or did it?
May 21, 2019 - 4:00 PM

KELOWNA - A new report issued today by Rentals.ca says the cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment jumped 16.5 per cent in Kelowna from March to April, to an average rental rate of $2,091.
Make homes more affordable? Kelowna council priorities put to the test Monday
May 04, 2019 - 7:30 AM

KELOWNA - The top two priorities in Kelowna’s Healthy Housing strategy, adopted less than a year ago, are to “promote and protect rental housing” and “improve housing affordability.”
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Penticton company building 60 tiny homes for Kelowna's homeless
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