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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 91Ô­´´ Island Construction Association.

Real estate sales in the 91Ô­´´ 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.

Dear Tony: I purchased a 12-year-old strata unit in 91Ô­´´ on Oct. 15. My offer was submitted Sept.

Neighbours of a proposed nine-home development off the north end of Quadra Street are calling on Saanich to rescind subdivision approval to save an established Garry oak ecosystem on the largely undeveloped property.

A $64-million building with 274 units of rental housing above ground-floor commercial space is planned on 1.5 acres at the north end of Victoria’s Old Town. “I like mixed-use projects.

A mixed-use development could rise in two years from the ashes of Island Outfitters’ former Douglas Street location.