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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: …

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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 …

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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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Innovation In Building | ICF by Nudura®

by Vira JacksonUncategorised January 15, 2019September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Insulated concrete forms (ICFs) are an innovative building product being used more often in the Lower Mainland and should be a consideration compared to conventional framing when building a new custom home in Vancouver, BC. Our Averra Developments Team is a Vancouver custom home builder with experience installing ICF assemblies supplied by local manufacturer — Nudura®. …

City of Vancouver | Taking The Electric Vehicle (EV) Plunge

by Vira JacksonUncategorised January 23, 2019September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Do you own an electric vehicle (EV) or have you been thinking about taking the plunge to purchase one? There is definitely a growing demand for electric vehicles in our city. It is a hot topic whether Vancouver is doing enough to meet the demand by investing and motiving the building of infrastructure to support …

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Great Option For Vancouver Homeowners | 2nd or 3rd Storey Additions

by Vira JacksonUncategorised January 17, 2019September 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

If you are a Vancouver resident, you are most likely keenly aware that space in our city is at a premium like never seen before. If you’re lucky Vancouver homeowner and find yourself wishing you had more space… Have you consider the option of building up? Some advantages of adding a second or third …