Kerry Gold
Kerry Gold is a housing and real estate columnist at The Globe and Mail, with a long-running weekly column that focuses on the dynamics of British Columbia’s housing market. Her work is distinguished by the way it treats housing as a story about power, inequality and policy as much as about prices and sales. She returns repeatedly to the region’s affordability crisis, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the impact of speculative and foreign capital on everyday residents. Over more than a decade on the beat, she has built a body of work that combines property-level detail with an understanding of how political decisions and financial flows shape who gets to live where.
BC housing crisis and inequality
Gold’s central focus is the housing crisis in and around Vancouver, and how it exposes broader social divides. She writes frequently about the struggle for affordable housing, tracking how rising prices and limited supply push long-time residents out of neighbourhoods and lock new entrants out of ownership.
Her columns examine the growing disparity between rich and poor through the lens of real estate, showing how high-end investment properties and luxury developments sit alongside precarious rental housing and aging stock.
She covers speculation and investment as forces that reshape communities, drawing attention to the inflow of foreign wealth and its role in intensifying price pressures. Displacement, renovictions and the erosion of secure tenancy recur in her work, as she documents cases where residents lose homes in favour of higher-paying buyers or more profitable redevelopment.
Market stories and property case studies
A distinctive feature of Gold’s coverage is the way she uses individual properties and transactions to show what is happening in the market.
She writes detailed columns about specific homes, capturing list prices, accepted offers and the context behind a sale to illustrate where the market is firm and where it is soft. Recent work includes a piece on a quick sale in North Vancouver, where buyers competed for a home in a market described as wanting “an 11 out of 10,” illustrating persistent demand for standout properties even as conditions shift. She has also reported on a Kitsilano townhouse whose sellers accepted an offer below their 2024 purchase price, using the case to show how some segments are facing downward pressure.
Her archive includes coverage of vacation properties in interior towns, on Vancouver Island and in resort areas such as Whistler, looking at how second-home demand and lifestyle moves are influencing inventory and pricing outside the core urban market. Across these pieces, the emphasis is on clear, transaction-level facts set against the broader trend lines of the provincial housing market.
Policy, land deals and non-market housing
Gold’s columns often connect individual housing stories to municipal and provincial policy decisions. She covers how planning rules, tax measures and zoning changes affect affordability, ownership and rental conditions, paying attention to both intended outcomes and unintended consequences.
Her work includes reporting on civic land deals, such as the sale of a former non-market housing site at 601 Beach Crescent to a private developer, where she explored questions about valuation, public benefit and the loss of land that had been tied to social housing.
She writes about displacement and renoviction in the context of regulatory frameworks, highlighting where protections for tenants fall short of the realities they face in competitive markets. By tracking the interplay between city hall decisions, development agendas and the experience of residents, she treats housing policy as a central part of the story rather than background detail.
Long-form investigations and wider reporting background
Beyond her weekly column, Gold has produced investigative features on the inflow of foreign money into British Columbia real estate, looking at how global capital channels into local properties and what that means for affordability.
She has written housing and real estate pieces for a range of other publications, extending her coverage of speculation, ownership and public policy to national magazines and business titles. Her career includes earlier work in music and entertainment reporting, and she brings that narrative sensibility into her housing coverage through character-driven storytelling and attention to how people experience the market. Taken together, her portfolio offers not only price and trend coverage but also long-form, context-rich reporting on how housing intersects with wealth, culture and governance.
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