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The long-anticipated soft landing for Canada’s housing market is here, says Royal LePage

Livabl April 15, 2015

The real estate brokerage says the market is seeing slower than normal price growth.
25 rooms with ocean views you want to spend your entire summer in

Livabl April 12, 2015

Smell the sea air!
This adorable 190-square-foot micro-home used to be a grain silo

Livabl April 10, 2015

The loft-style “Silo House” is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
21 genius design ideas for the space under your stairs

Livabl April 5, 2015

Save space and liven up your home at the same time!
35 building fails that take shoddy workmanship to a whole new level

Livabl March 29, 2015

Honestly, some people should just never be allowed near tools.
21 surreal designs you should actually use in your home

Livabl March 22, 2015

Because they’re strangely beautiful.
This graph demonstrates just how quickly rental construction is climbing in the Vancouver-area

Livabl March 18, 2015

In 2004, rental units accounted for only 3.8 per cent of all housing starts. Last year the segment made up 17 per cent.
Airbnb will let you sleep in Warren Buffett’s childhood bedroom for free

Joyce Chen and Livabl March 17, 2015

The winner of an Airbnb contest will get to stay three nights at the three-bedroom home where Buffett launched his first business as a boy.
24 things you definitely need to set up in your backyard this summer

Livabl March 15, 2015

Live in an apartment building and don’t have a backyard? That’s okay, just gain access to the roof.
Comparing 15 historic Calgary postcards with the same scene today

Livabl March 11, 2015

Oh, how things have (and haven’t) changed.
13 tiny houses we’re really big on

Livabl March 8, 2015

What they lack in space they make up for in cozy.
Check out this twisted plan for a tornado-shaped skyscraper in Oklahoma

Livabl March 6, 2015

“…where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!”
15 futuristic kitchen gadgets you need to start cooking with today

Livabl March 1, 2015

Who’s hungry for 3D-printed pizza?
28 real estate ads that are so bad they’re good

Livabl February 22, 2015

Your partner is a ventriloquist dummy? You’re both hired.
A hurricane-proof home that you can build on the beach for just over $100,000

Livabl February 20, 2015

Even without the obvious safety benefit, a $100,000 beach house sounds pretty great, no?
Alberta appears headed for a brief recession, says CIBC

Livabl February 17, 2015

And that would mean trouble for the province’s housing market.