by Trevor Hargreaves | Jun 4, 2025 | Columnists, Guest Columns
Each month, a BCREA leader shares their insights in an exclusive column for Real Estate Magazine. Interested in contributing? Send us an email. Few current Canadian politicians have the credentials of newly-appointed Minister of Housing and Infrastructure...
by Trevor Hargreaves | Jan 8, 2025 | Columnists
In British Columbia, we wrapped up October with one of the oddest provincial elections in recent memory, only to immediately turn our gaze cross-border to an even stranger spectacle. Here in the land of socialized medicine and progressive poutineries, the rhetoric of...
by Trevor Hargreaves | Oct 10, 2024 | Columnists
A challenge in the world of government relations is that it’s inherently a long game. Here in British Columbia, the provincial government has been hearing the desperate voice of the electorate to restore affordability as quickly as possible. This has manifested into a...
by Trevor Hargreaves | Aug 13, 2024 | Columnists
The past half-decade has been a strange one for housing in British Columbia. After almost two decades of underproduction, municipal bureaucratic foot-dragging and a general failure to plan for future growth, affordability issues continue to worsen despite ongoing...
by Trevor Hargreaves | May 13, 2024 | Columnists
In 1979, during the North American Soccer League (NASL) finals between the Vancouver Whitecaps and New York Cosmos, sportscaster Jim McKay passively referenced Vancouver as a “village.” In terms of the size, scale and population of New York at the time, he wasn’t far...
