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Vancouver Housing Affordability Interim Report Encourages More Purpose Built Rental Development

by Vira JacksonUncategorised September 18, 2024September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson formed a task force to explore how to increase the city’s availability of affordable housing for moderate income households. The team is comprised of 14 representatives from the development, building, finance and non-profit sectors. The task force’s recently published interim report supports increased housing density. They focus this specifically around transportation hubs including: …

What Is A Net Zero Home?

by Vira JacksonBuilding Materials and Innovation January 25, 2023September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

What Are Net Zero Homes? Essentially, Net Zero homes produce as much energy as they consume for heating and domestic hot water needs. Net Zero labeled homes are at least 80% more energy efficient than homes built to conventional standards. Why are Net Zero Homes becoming more popular? Despite rising costs and interest rates; …

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Homeowner Fall + Winter Maintenance Reminders

by Vira JacksonUncategorised September 27, 2022September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Valuable things to protect your home as temperatures get colder. Sweater weather is upon here in Vancouver. It would be nice if all we needed to do was hang a fall wreath on the front door and hunker down and dive into Netflix. While those are some of the fun things as the season changes, …

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Join Our Team

by Vira JacksonUncategorised May 9, 2022September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Want to be part of a fun and hardworking team? Averra Developments is a builder of custom single family homes and duplexes in Vancouver, BC. We promise to give clients high quality craftsman homes; on-time, on budget and above expectations. We’re always on the lookout for new team members! At Averra “We love what we …

A Good Time To Build or Buy a Duplex

by Vira JacksonBuilding Materials and Innovation, Uncategorised, Vancouver Housing February 9, 2022September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

The Vancouver housing market provides a lot of challenges and opportunities for us all. In this post, we break down the basics as well as some valuable and insightful considerations if you are thinking of buying or building a duplex. What is a duplex? A duplex is a residential property with two dwellings that share …

Plumbing Tip | Importance of Winterizing Your Hose Bibs

by Vira JacksonBuilding Materials and Innovation, Uncategorised February 10, 2021September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Why Winterize Your Outdoor Faucets? Living in Vancouver we generally have mild winters compared to the rest of Canada. It is easy to get complacent and choose to not winterize our homes since we’ll likely only have a few days per year that the temperature will dip below zero. Yet, when temperatures drop below freezing …

Sleeping Outside to Help Bring Homeless Youth Inside

by Vira JacksonAverra Community Engagement March 2, 2020September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Gavin McLeod, co-founder of Averra Developments will be heading to downtown Vancouver to sleep in an alley on April 2nd. He’ll only have a cardboard box and sleeping bag to experience what so many young people in our city have to endure every night. Gavin and his co-founding partner Guy Taylor have been focused …

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How The City of Vancouver’s Heritage Action Plan May Benefit You

by Vira JacksonUncategorised, Vancouver Housing February 28, 2020September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Amendments to a City of Vancouver action plan give some Vancouver homeowners some big benefits. If you own an older Vancouver home, it may be worth exploring if your property is deemed to have “character merit”. If so, amendments city council enacted to the Heritage Action Plan on January 16, 2018 may give you valuable and tangible …

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News about our Vancouver Homebuilders Association

by Vira JacksonUncategorised February 21, 2019September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

On January 30th, 2019 that the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association (GVHBA) revealed their new name and brand identity – Homebuilders Association Vancouver (HAVAN). The association has been around for 40+ years. It is a not-for-profit association made up of developers, builders, renovators, suppliers, sub trades and professionals. Averra Developments is one of their 1,100+ …

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Your Home Thermostat | Never Turn It Off

by Vira JacksonBuilding Materials and Innovation January 25, 2019September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Most Vancouver residents know that our weather is quite mild compared to the rest of our country. In fact, Vancouver typically has just 41 days per year that the temperature dips below zero. — Environment Canada Energy efficiency or saving power is a popular topic these days, but we recommend that you NEVER ever turn …