{"id":12947,"date":"2016-03-01T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:58:21","slug":"top-5-local-real-estate-headlines-for-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/top-5-local-real-estate-headlines-for-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Local Real Estate Headlines for February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Real Estate has been at the root of many local headlines this past month. Rising controversy about questionable agent practices and the record-breaking prices of detached homes have made the Vancouver real estate industry February&#8217;s &#8216;hot topic&#8217;. But the question in everyone&#8217;s mind is: What does the future hold for Vancouver, will unaffordable housing drive our working force away? Will Vancouver become a &#8220;Ghost Town&#8221;? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news1130.com\/2016\/02\/02\/vancouver-house-price-new-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Average Vancouver house price sets new record<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Feb, 2, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-h\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-h\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2497411\/home-prices-in-vancouver-and-toronto-are-accelerating-at-a-dramatic-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home prices in Vancouver and Toronto are accelerating at a \u2018dramatic\u2019 rate<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Feb, 4, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Middlemen using 'assignment clause' as loophole to maximize profits on houses they are flipping\"><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"Middlemen using 'assignment clause' as loophole to maximize profits on houses they are flipping\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/investigations\/the-real-estate-technique-fuelling-vancouvers-housing-market\/article28634868\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The real estate technique fuelling Vancouver&#8217;s housing market<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Feb. 06. 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">New mortgage rules will hurt first time buyers<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Feb,15, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-title\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">It has never been so unaffordable to own a home in Vancouver: report<\/h1>\n<p><strong>February, 29, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/top-5-local-real-estate-headlines-for-february-2016\/' data-title='Top 5 Local Real Estate Headlines for February 2016' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/top-5-local-real-estate-headlines-for-february-2016\/' data-title='Top 5 Local Real Estate Headlines for February 2016' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Estate has been at the root of many local headlines this past month. Rising controversy about questionable agent practices and the record-breaking prices of detached homes have made the Vancouver real estate industry February&#8217;s &#8216;hot topic&#8217;. But the question in everyone&#8217;s mind is: What does the future hold for Vancouver, will unaffordable housing drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15182,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/15182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}