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WITH RISING INTEREST RATES AND
ADDED INCENTIVES, THE LONG-
MALIGNED RENTAL MARKET IS
SLOWLY BECOMING VIABLE AGAIN
FOR BUILDERS AND CITIZENS ALIKE
J
ade Buchanan, a young Métis lawyer who
moved to Vancouver from Regina five
years ago to swim in a bigger, more excit-
ing pool of the legal world, could probably
have stretched to buy a home in the city
as soon as he arrived.
Between what he makes at a blue-chip down-
town firm, where he specializes in tech and
privacy law, and the income of his wife, also a
lawyer, buying wasn't out of the question after
they sold their home in Regina—though it likely
wouldn't have been more than a one-bedroom
condo in Vancouver or a townhouse in Burnaby.
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