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Despite the pandemic, there were dozens of major commercial real estate deals over the past year in Greater Victoria, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

A controversial proposal to erect an 11-storey condo tower in Royal Oak next to Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park is going to a public hearing.

Victoria’s housing market is stable now, but the region could soon be dealing with price ­acceleration and ­overheating, according to a study released Wednesday by ­sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Mortgage and Housing ­Corporation.

Victoria council has approved two new developments — one on the former Wellburn’s Market site and another in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood — that will add 258 apartments to the city’s supply of rental homes.

It might not feel like spring, but the Greater Victoria real estate market is sure acting like it, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Victoria Real Estate Board.

A divided Victoria council has rejected a proposed 48-unit condo development in Cook Street Village for failing to include any affordable housing.

Though the pace of building on the Island remains down slightly from 2019 due to the pandemic, it appears to have rebounded in the third quarter of this year, according to figures released Wednesday by the Vancouver Island Construction Association.

Real estate sales in the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board area stretching from Duncan to Port Hardy nearly doubled in October compared with the same period last year.

Greater Victoria saw a record 990 property sales in October, nearly a 60 per cent increase compared with the same month in 2019, and a slight increase over the 989 sales recorded last month, the Victoria Real Estate Board said Monday.

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