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 […]
10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2021
2020 is in the books and despite what we’ve all been through, it was a pretty good one for the Vancouver tech community and the province as a whole. The COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to adapt quickly to change and redesign their products or services or even create new ones to respond to our new […]
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 […]