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Plain-language guides to custom home building and renovation, plus multiplex development, zoning, and what BC's new housing rules mean for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley homeowners and investors.
Financing & Partnerships
The feasibility review: how to know if your lot pencils out
Before a single drawing is made, a feasibility review tells you whether your lot can carry a multiplex and what it would take. Here's what we actually look at, and why a yes or no isn't the same as a number.
Trent Praski · July 27, 2026 · 14 min read
Financing & Partnerships
Sharing the risk: how a development partnership protects homeowners
A homeowner who tries to develop their own lot carries every risk alone, capital, permitting, construction, and the market. A GP/LP partnership is built to spread that risk. Here is exactly how the protections work, where your equity sits, and where the protections stop.
Trent Praski · July 19, 2026 · 8 min
Financing & Partnerships
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Multiplex in Vancouver? (2026 Guide)
Most homeowners who ask about building a multiplex think about the cost of construction. That's only part of the bill. Here's a plain breakdown of what a triplex, fourplex, or sixplex actually costs to build in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in 2026, from hard construction to city fees to the total all-in number.
Trent Praski · July 9, 2026 · 8 min
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