News Items tag as: rental housing

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.”
More housing units doesn’t translate into savings for Kelowna renters
April 17, 2019 - 11:18 AM

KELOWNA - Despite thousands of new rental units being built in the past few years, Kelowna is the sixth to seventh most expensive city in Canada for renters.
Kamloops hotels and motel association thinks AirBnB users should be paying tax
December 05, 2016 - 9:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - A group representing local hotels and motels wants the city to support a proposal to help level the playing field for competitors like Airbnb.
Vacancy rate eases as Kelowna pushes rental housing construction
December 02, 2015 - 10:30 AM

KELOWNA - The city has done a lot to encourge development of rental housing and there’s not too much more that can be done, except to let the incentives do their work and keep on pushing for more.
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