London housing

The average asking rent for London apartments declined slightly in October, a new market snapshot shows

A controversial south London apartment conversion plan aligns with city and Ontario building rules and won’t result in any tenants being evicted, the project planner says. A proposal to double the apartment units in five buildings at 145 Base Line Rd. W. to 30 from 15, set to be debated

As Sifton Properties proposes nearly 1,100 new homes on a parcel of northeast London land near Fanshawe Conservation Area, the size and shape of the Forest City, long known for its slow growth, is in the midst of a dramatic overhaul.

A large, new subdivision may rise in the shadow of Fanshawe Conservation Area with Sifton Properties proposing to build as many as 1,079 homes in northeast London. The development on 50 hectares (124 acres) at 2331 Kilally and 1588 Clarke roads would include single-family homes, townhouses and even mid-rise apartments

City hall has teamed up with local developers to draft a to-do list to help London speed up housing developments in a city that met little more than half of its provincial housing target last year.

London was the site of another federal pre-budget announcement Friday, this time outlining measures in the new federal housing plan.

Three out of four area residents ranked their quality of life as top-notch, a new survey of Southwestern Ontario residents says, but the housing crisis and cost of living are looming large in people’s minds and pocketbooks.

York Developments has sold two of its newest London towers in a $130-million deal.

It has taken three generations of one London family to realize a $1 billion housing development that is one of the largest, single residential project in the city’s history.

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City politicians have endorsed a framework for highly supportive housing to ease the homelessness crisis and a plan to evaluate a new homelessness system built largely on that housing.

London is poised to add land for what may be more than one thousand new homes, as it converts under-used industrial property to residential.