B.C.’s development industry wants in on tax rebate Ontario announced expanded one-year rebate program to include some investors and repeat buyers

Subscribers: “B.C.’s development community wants in on the tax rebate on newly built homes for all buyers, including some investors.” www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/... #vanre #tore #itsSpeculationStupid #RECartel #bcpoli #onpoli

Douglas Todd: Everybody loves their entitlements, especially B.C. housing developers Councils have approved 132,000 housing units that developers haven't started to build. Money can be made by monetizing such 'entitlements'.

Todd: Everybody loves their entitlements, especially B.C. housing developers vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #vanre #itsSpeculationStupid #RECartel #flipping #vanpoli #bcpoli

Vancouver's opulent CURV tower gets away with switching out of below-market housing Douglas Todd: Developers behind the city's tallest tower are getting out of their vow to include below-market apartments in their design.

vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #vanre #donorsfirst #RECartel #housingcrisis #vanpoli

ABC Sim only cares about #RECartel #donorsfirst not the community at large nor any community amenities #AbolishABC #vanpoli

Canada's Next PM Working w/Vancouver "Condo King" On Foreign Investment - Better Dwelling Canada’s next leader hasn’t officially assumed the role, but he’s already looking to stimulate real estate. Last week, Vancouver’s “Condo King” Bob Rennie revealed that he is working with newly-minted...

Rennie's "Plan Can Make It Harder To Build Affordable Housing - Canadian Taxpayers Went From Helping Homebuyers To Investors" betterdwelling.com/canadas-next... #vanre #RECartel #offshoreinvestors #FBs #housingcrisis #FAIL #vanpoli #cdnpoli

Who’s who of Vancouver real estate attended Mark Carney fundraiser Also: a luxury car dealer, local politicians, First Nations leaders and even the deposed B.C. Housing/Atira duo.

Who’s who of Vancouver real estate attended Mark Carney fundraiser bobmackin.substack.com/p/whos-who-o... #vanre #donorsfirst #RECartel #housingcrisis #cdnpoli

Terry Hui’s Hole in Vancouver’s Heart | The Tyee Why did the billionaire stall Expo lands completion for decades, leaving a void where there could be homes? A Tyee deep dive.

Meggs: Terry Hui's Hole in Vancouver's Heart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... Concord still owes B.C. a final payment for the land — estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars…

A major waterfront park has never been built. #vanre #RECartel #donorsfirst #vanpoli

In March 2023, prior to the release of the BC Provincial Housing Targets for select municipalities, the Urban Development Institute (UDI), not only lobbied the Province on Enforceable Housing Targets,... In March 2023, prior to the release of the BC Provincial Housing Targets for select municipalities, the Urban Development Institute (UDI), not only lobbied the Province on Enforceable Housing Targe…

“..the Urban Development Institute ( #UDI), not only lobbied the Province on Enforceable Housing Targets, but also on an Advisor for municipalities “should they be appointed” crdwatch.ca/2025/02/14/m... #vanre #lobbyistsmatter #RECartel #vanpoli #bcpoli

LA Real Estate Lobbied to Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictio...

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions jacobin.com/2025/01/la-w... #LAFires #RECartel

James Dwiggins on LinkedIn: There are going to be more articles coming out from the NYT in the coming… | 60 comments There are going to be more articles coming out from the NYT in the coming days about our industry and specifically from this reporter who is not shy about the… | 60 comments on LinkedIn

About this time in 1992, a keynote speaker who regulated the real estate industry in NY told Consumer Federation of America's Financial Services Conference that

"Real estate is the Sleeping Giant of the Consumer Movement"

Now Debra Kamin is under attack for exposing the #RECartel:

bit.ly/4fZamel

“‘Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time.’

‘So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that not is for them to decide.’”

#VanRE #bcpoli #cdnpoli #recartel

#visionvancouver