Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is a reporter at Business in Vancouver who covers and investigates B.C. business and real estate, with a particular focus on how rules, subsidies and enforcement shape the market. His beat centres on the intersection of property, finance and regulation, and he approaches it as an investigative reporter rather than a transactional real estate writer. He files frequently on B.C. affairs across Glacier Media’s outlets, building a large body of business and finance reporting.
Mortgage fraud and broker oversight
Wood’s coverage of real estate emphasizes the governance of the sector, including stories on mortgage broker rules tightening in the aftermath of significant fraud schemes. He treats real estate as a regulatory system, focusing on how misconduct in lending and brokering prompts changes in oversight rather than on individual property deals. In this strand of his work, he tracks fraud cases, follows their links into the wider capital markets, and shows how regulators respond through new rules and enforcement actions.
His reporting on stock promoter Avtar Dhillon’s U.S. prison sentence for fraud connected to a major Vancouver-based scheme and its implications for Dhillon’s ability to continue capital markets activity in B.C. is part of the same preoccupation with gaps between misconduct and consequences.
Developer subsidies and the business of housing
Wood regularly reports on public subsidies to the development sector and the political arguments around them.
His coverage of a $389 million Metro Vancouver developer subsidy, framed by local leadership as “striking a balance,” looks at how large financial commitments are justified and contested. Rather than treating housing purely as a social issue, he examines it as a business transaction between governments and developers, following the flows of public money into projects and the governance structures around them.
This makes his real estate reporting particularly relevant when a story involves public financing, incentives, or other forms of state support to private builders.
Capital markets enforcement and financial scams
Beyond bricks and mortar, Wood spends significant time on securities enforcement and financial misconduct. He has covered attempts by the securities regulator to ban a prolific B.C. stock promoter following detention in the United States, documenting how cross-border legal action feeds into local enforcement. His work also extends into consumer-facing financial scams, including employment schemes exploiting the rise of remote work; in a recent piece on remote work scams, he reports on warnings from the Better Business Bureau about Canadians being drawn into costly employment frauds.
This blend of capital markets stories and scams aimed at individuals shows his interest in the full spectrum of financial risk, from promoter-driven schemes to everyday cons.
Legal advocacy and institutional power
Wood’s reporting often touches institutions that shape economic life beyond markets themselves.
He has covered efforts by an Indigenous lawyers group to form a separate association focused on legal advocacy, highlighting how professional structures can support or constrain different communities. In his work on foreign-backed industrial projects, such as the launch of a Belt and Road Initiative warehouse in Surrey by the Chinese government, he connects diplomatic and geopolitical activity to local economic development.
Across these stories, what stands out is his attention to who holds power - regulators, professional bodies, foreign governments - and how their decisions affect business, law and property in B.C.
Taken together, Wood’s body of work is defined by a hard-edged look at the business and regulatory machinery behind real estate and finance in B.C. He pursues stories where fraud, subsidies, enforcement and institutional decisions meet the marketplace, and he reports them with an investigative focus on documents, decisions and consequences.
Stories that sit at that junction of policy, money and risk are where his coverage is most engaged.
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