Editorial commentary
Vol. 1 · 2026
Long-form on the BC real-estate stories the daily press isn’t covering closely enough. Reporting register, primary sources inline, signed and date-stamped. The companion track to our formal quarterly market reports and cluster guides.
Metro Vancouver concrete presale-tower launches · Source: Zonda Home Canada via Business in Vancouver
June 3, 2026 · 12 min read
In Q1 2025 Metro Vancouver had 152 new concrete presale-tower launches. In Q1 2026 it had zero. The Eclipse Tower story is the lead; the bigger story is what happens to resale prices when new supply stops for four years.
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Plaintiffs
$26M
In contracts
$54K
Per day in interest
Legal case
Three dozen Eclipse Tower buyers are in BC Supreme Court trying to break $26 million in presale contracts. The Forjay precedent, REDMA section 16, and what BC law actually allows an assignment-holder to do.
June 3, 2026 · 14 min read
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Policy fight
Michael Audain helped found the BC Civil Liberties Association in 1962. David Eby ran it in 2008. In summer 2025, Audain's company signed an open letter; Eby refused it within seventy-two hours. The policy fight that will decide what gets built in 2027.
June 3, 2026 · 14 min read
Local politics
Mayor Eric Woodward is the loudest critic of provincial density mandates in Fort Langley and the foundation behind the village's largest density vote in a generation. Four council decisions in twelve months; what they add up to.
June 3, 2026 · 15 min read
