Before You Buy Acreage: What Rural Properties in the Comox Valley Actually Involve
I have clients who’ve been looking for the right piece of land near the Tsolum River for the better part of seven...
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Real estate insights, market updates, and lifestyle stories from the Comox Valley.
A Local’s Guide to Courtenay’s Neighbourhoods
Stand in the front window of a Valley View home and you can read most of Courtenay from one spot. The main...
Read Article →Active Travel in the Comox Valley: The 6th Street Bridge and the Infrastructure Behind It
The new bridge on 6th Street opened a couple of weeks ago. I walked across it and stopped partway to look. East,...
Read Article →Comox Valley Market Snapshot: July 2026
In June, more townhouses sold in the Comox Valley than came on the market. Twenty-two were listed. Twenty-eight sold, meaning buyers absorbed...
Read Article →The Railway Company on Your Title
Pull up a title search on almost any property in the Comox Valley and you’ll find it, buried in the Charges, Liens...
Read Article →Before the Wood Chipper: Tree Bylaws in the Comox Valley
There’s a sound I’ve never been able to ignore in my neighbourhood: the wood chipper. It starts up somewhere down the street...
Read Article →What the K’ómoks Treaty and BC Land Claims Mean for Comox Valley Property Owners
A client I sold a waterfront lot to last year sent me a message recently. They’re deep into the design phase of...
Read Article →Four Units on One Lot: What the Comox Valley’s New Zoning Means in Practice
In 2024, BC’s Bill 44 legislation required municipalities across the province to open single-family land to more density. The Comox Valley moved...
Read Article →Can Non-Canadians Buy Property in the Comox Valley? Navigating the Foreign Buyer Ban
The federal ban is real. In the Comox Valley, where it applies can come down to a km or two. I’m one...
Read Article →Comox Valley Market Snapshot: June 2026
There’s a street in Courtenay, and you’ve probably driven down one like it, where two for-sale signs went up this spring within...
Read Article →The Numbers You Need Before You’re Ready to Downsize
Downsizing is an emotional decision long before it’s a financial one. The trouble is, the emotion and the math are tangled together...
Read Article →AI and Privacy in BC Real Estate: What REALTORS® and Brokerages Need to Know (Discussion Paper)
Executive Summary Artificial intelligence is transforming real estate, from automated valuation models and lead scoring to virtual staging and chatbot client services....
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