Jami Makan
Jami Makan covers real estate for Business in Vancouver with a focus on how economic forces, policy decisions and sector-specific trends reshape property values, investment strategies and risk across B.C. and Canada. He is a real estate reporter with Business in Vancouver and writes the masthead’s weekly real estate newsletter, giving readers regular, structured updates on market conditions and major developments in the housing and commercial sectors. He has previously written for newspapers and magazines in cities including New York, Nairobi and Blaine, Washington, and has worked in the insurance and litigation fields, experience that informs his attention to contracts, regulation and institutional players in the property market. He also identifies as an author and music producer.
Market cycles and affordability in Vancouver housing
Makan’s core reporting track the ups and downs of the Vancouver housing market, with an emphasis on prices, inventory and interest rates. In a recent piece asking whether a buyer’s market is emerging in Vancouver real estate, he walks readers through rising inventory levels, benchmark prices and borrowing costs, using Greater Vancouver Realtors data and the Bank of Canada’s rate path to explain why conditions are becoming more favourable for buyers. He cites figures such as inventory cresting 16,000 listings for the first time since 2014, a composite benchmark price above $1.18 million and a detached segment sales-to-active-listings ratio under 10 per cent to show where the market sits in the cycle.
He extends this market-cycle focus by reporting on national bank research into local affordability. In his coverage of an RBC report on Vancouver home prices in 2025, he highlights that affordability in the region has improved over five straight quarters while homeownership remains out of reach for many, setting Vancouver’s metrics against trends elsewhere in Canada. His reporting on TD’s forecast that Vancouver condo prices are expected to fall further in 2026 uses the bank’s analysis to argue that the region’s condo market has not yet reached its bottom, linking price expectations to broader issues like oversupply and changing demand for multifamily housing. Across these stories he consistently uses bank and board data to anchor discussion of when buyers or sellers hold the upper hand.
Luxury, commercial and specialized property segments
Makan regularly moves beyond the mainstream resale market to cover luxury, commercial and other specialized segments of Canadian real estate. In his spring 2025 luxury housing piece, he reports that high-end homes are “holding up” better than lower-price tiers, quoting the CFO of Engel & Völkers Americas and using Canadian Real Estate Association sales figures to draw a contrast between resilient luxury markets and more subdued activity elsewhere. He brings cabins into the picture through commentary from a Re/Max area vice-president, showing how recreational property behaves differently from urban housing while still fitting into an overall national story.
His commercial real estate coverage focuses on investment fundamentals and macro risk. In a report on reasons to invest in Canadian commercial real estate, he explains that Canada offers favourable investment conditions even amid trade conflict with the U.S., drawing on a sector study to outline why office, industrial and retail assets remain attractive to institutional and private investors. He has written on how growing healthcare demand is reshaping the medical office landscape in B.C., spotlighting the medical office segment as a distinct niche where demographic trends and service delivery models drive demand for specific types of space. His work on foreign student caps shaking up B.C.’s student housing market shows how federal policy on international enrolment reverberates through purpose-built student accommodation and rental housing, with attention to how landlords and developers adjust to changing flows of tenants. He has also covered Indigenous-led urban development, including construction milestones at the Squamish Nation’s Senáḵw project, treating it as a major, long-term addition to the region’s multifamily housing stock.
Policy, regulation and professional change around property
Regulation, governance and professional practice are recurring threads in Makan’s coverage, particularly where they intersect with real estate. In a piece asking whether mandatory education is needed for B.C. condo board members, he examines the responsibilities of volunteer directors managing significant collective assets and considers how training requirements could affect building governance and outcomes for owners and residents. His reporting on B.C. lawyers facing AI-driven shakeups in legal work explores how technology is changing legal services and workflows, an angle that connects to the contracts, transactions and disputes that underpin the property industry.
He also covers the legal and financial mechanics that come to the fore when assets or business models come under stress. In his reporting on a bank seeking receivership over a Vancouver coworking property, he details how lenders use court-appointed receiverships to protect their interests in a changing office market, using the case to illustrate the risks tied to flexible-workspace ventures and to explain what receivership means for landlords, tenants and investors in practical terms. These stories show an interest in the rules and remedies that sit alongside the bricks-and-mortar aspects of real estate.
Reporting style: data, experts and investor focus
Makan’s real estate coverage is consistently data-heavy, expert-led and written with an investor and professional audience in mind. Across his work he relies on quantitative indicators—benchmark prices, sales-to-listings ratios, national sales activity, bank rate moves—and treats them as the backbone of his narratives about housing and commercial markets. He frequently cites institutional sources such as RBC, TD, CREA, Greater Vancouver Realtors, Engel & Völkers and Re/Max, using their reports and spokespeople to ground his analysis in current research and market intelligence.
His background in insurance and litigation aligns with a tendency to engage with risk, regulation and the fine print of how property is owned, managed and financed, whether that is in the context of condo governance, student housing policy or receivership proceedings. As the writer of Business in Vancouver’s weekly real estate newsletter, he packages this reporting into regular briefings that give readers a structured view of shifting conditions across residential, luxury, commercial and niche property segments. Combined with his work as an author and music producer, this suggests a reporter comfortable combining detailed, technical information with accessible storytelling and a clear sense of how different stakeholders experience changes in the built environment.
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