Building Code Reform Needs Longer Cycles and More Scrutiny

Testing the discount Premier David Eby has defended the plan as opportunistic buying in a weak market. “Ultimately we’ll be buying below the cost of construction. No developers will be profiting from this,” Eby said. He said the program would not work for units in the City of Vancouver, where prices remain too high, but…

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12:01 AM, 17th July 2026, 17 hours ago Buy to let lending rose during the first three months of 2026, with landlords securing 58,272 new loans worth £10.8 billion, data from UK Finance reveals. Even with higher BTL borrowing costs, both figures were higher than a year earlier. UK Finance said the number of advances…

The looming threat of quantum computing to Bitcoin’s security has long worried developers and investors. A sufficiently advanced quantum machine could use algorithms like Shor’s to derive private keys from exposed public keys, potentially allowing attackers to seize funds from vulnerable addresses. This risk is particularly acute for older outputs where public keys appear directly…

Foundation Mortgage has built a condo team for that very reason, bringing on a specialist who previously ran condo operations at Sprout and has involvement in Fannie Mae advisory processes. Marc Halpern (pictured top), CEO of Foundation Mortgage in South Florida, said understanding those engineering reports gives educated brokers and lenders an advantage. “We’re going…