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The cost of a new housing unit could go up anywhere from $200 to $1,600 per parking stall if Kelowna city council decides to require electric vehicle chargers in every new home.A staff recommendation going to council Mon

Investors are buying up housing in the Thompson-Okanagan region at a rapidly increasing rate.Estimates range from 10% to more than 30% of homes in the region are not lived in by the owners and likely owned by corporate i

In an environmentally sensitive world it’s not unusual for developers to tout the fact that their projects will have low carbon footprints.Vancouver-based Ulmus Development Ltd. CEO Don Redden is going a step furth

Kelowna ranked as the fourth most expensive city in the country to rent an apartment in December, even though prices fell by about 5% from November.One-bedroom apartments in Kelowna had a median price of $1,640 on the Zu

A 300-unit housing development on an environmentally sensitive Kelowna hillside will go to a public hearing after all.The McCurdy Road project fit in with new provincial rules saying a public hearing was not needed becau

Under new provincial rules, local governments don’t have to take rezoning applications to public hearings anymore if they conform to community plans and have the support of city staff.That means, instead of holding

Kelowna-based Mission Group has submitted plans for two towers that will make up the three-tower UBC Okanagan downtown complex.The land at the corner of Doyle Avenue and St. Paul Street – once the home of the Kelow

Of the 100 homes with the highest assessed value in the Thompson-Okanagan region by B.C. Assessment, all but five are listed as waterfront.Topping the list is 4358 Hobson Road at $14 million. It was ranked number two las

An application has been filed with the City of Kelowna to rezone land in order to build four highrise towers on the waterfront next to the Waterscapes development on Sunset Drive.There is no text describing the project i

The Interior Health region had the highest per capita alcohol consumption rate in B.C. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new University of Victoria study.From April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021