City of Vancouver Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung has proposed closing select streets in downtown Vancouver, including the Granville Entertainment District, to vehicle traffic in order to help revitalize areas hard-hit by COVID. Kirby-Yung’s ideas also include expanding patio spaces for businesses, bringing in live music, and allowing farmer’s markets and craft markets to set up shop. The […]
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Investing in Real Estate with Addy: My Early-Adopter Experience
As a teenager, I was thrilled to open my own bank account—not so that I could spend, but so that I could save. When I graduated from college, the first thing I did was buy real estate: a humble apartment suite in Vancouver, where I would work as a journalist and editor for nearly a […]
Addy Adds North Vancouver Apartment Building To Portfolio
Vancouver proptech startup addy has launched its fifth real estate investment opportunity and this time around it is a multi-family property in North Vancouver. Avesta Apartments is a 100% occupied, twenty-two suite apartment building at 1629 St Georges Avenue. addy is offering 1,018,500 units in the property valued at $1 each to enable B.C. residents […]
Addy Lets You Invest In A Starbucks Drive-thru Location
Vancouver proptech startup addy has launched its second real estate investment opportunity and this time around it is a commercial property in Chilliwack. Located at the southwest corner of Airport Road and Yale Road, the property is equipped with a drive-thru and is currently tenanted to Starbucks. The site is comprised of 2,100 square feet […]
Addy Launches To Unlock Real Estate Investing For As Little As $1
Vancouver proptech startup addy officially launched today. Addy is on a mission to allow every human to become a homeowner, by investing in real estate for as little as $1. The company’s proof of concept property located on Vancouver’s Trout Lake sold out to 305 investors in addy’s network spread across the country. Investments ranged […]
Why 2025 Is The Year To Launch a Branded Podcast
2025 has already brought a multitude of changes for brands to navigate–from a rapidly changing and volatile political landscape to continued uncertainty when it comes to costs of living. One change that stands out is the rapid rise, focus, and validation behind podcasts. Just recently, podcasters were granted access to the White House press briefing […]
Collision to Rebrand as Web Summit Vancouver, Move to West Coast for 2025
The idea of North American technology conference Collision moving from Toronto to Vancouver is not new. But fiction will soon be reality. With Collision sent to rock Toronto next week, the annual weeklong celebration of Canadian tech is moving to Vancouver in 2025, according to the event’s parent company, Web Summit. Web Summit officially confirmed […]
B.C. is the Heart of Canada’s Thriving Online Business Scene, Report Concludes
British Columbia is home to Canada’s highest concentration of micro-businesses, a recent analysis found, surpassing densities found in Ontario, Quebec, and elsewhere. Nearly 800,000 online-based micro-businesses were included in the analysis, which was conducted by Venture Forward, an international research initiative that studies the economic impacts of these extra-lean companies, as well as the attitudes […]
Real Estate Innovation Ecosystem Strong and Growing in BC, Report Finds
We’re not sure if tech can solve Canada’s housing crisis, but we know it’s trying. A nonprofit operating at the intersection of real estate, technology, and entrepreneurship in Canada this month released its third annual report on the state of prop-tech across the nation. Proptech Collective’s 2023 report reveals an array of insights into Canada’s […]
Growth of Vancouver Fintech Shows Thirst for Real Estate Investment, Development in BC
Born in Vancouver in 2018, addy took some time to expand beyond the borders of beautiful BC as it figured out of the gears of its platform. In 2020, addy fully launched, and by the end of the year had tapped the Alberta market by releasing an opportunity to invest in an industrial park in the […]