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Higher interest rates may be cooling off the housing market but there’s a growing appetite for RV lots outside larger urban centres.Shane Styles is the president of Okanagan-based Epic Real Estate Solutions who spe

While the latest home sales reports from the Association of Interior Realtors stress the number of units sold has dropped from last year, the organization also says prices show double-digit percentage increases over last

What was likely Kelowna’s first fire inside a highrise on May 29 has local firefighters calling for changes.“It keeps me up at night,” Jason Picklyk, president of Kelowna Professional Firefighters Assoc

The Bank of Canada made another major increase to its key interest earlier this week, the second in two months, and with that there is some thought that the housing market will slow further from its record-breaking pace

While it’s unusual for Kelowna firefighters to battle blazes in highrises, from a manpower point of view, a Sunday morning fire was not much different than any other structure fire.“Whether it’s a singl

Pub-crawling through the emerging brewery district in Kelowna’s North End this summer will provide a new beverage option that’s healthier than beer but still carries the same punch.Rochelle Minagawa, founder

The dramatic increase in the number and height of highrises in Kelowna, and two coming for Kamloops, has a lot of people looking up, but a new tower in Burnaby is reaching all new heights.There could be 25 highrises in K

There was a time, more than a decade ago, when an old school site in downtown Kelowna was imagined to become a gateway to the city.While that word wasn’t used in the city’s “final plan” for the fo

The best way to put a lid on skyrocketing housing prices in the Okanagan and beyond is to increase the supply of housing.Labour and local government bureaucrats, however, stand in the way of that happening quickly, Brend

Kelowna’s rental rate for a one-bedroom apartment jumped back to $1,800 in April after dropping to $1,710 in March.That returns Kelowna to the level it was in February. At that time it moved into the third spot for