Rated homes sell for more. The honest number is smaller than the marketing suggests — and it still clears the cost of the upgrade. Here's what the research supports, and where it's thinner than we'd like.

We checked whether this project could go the CMHC rental route. It can't, and the reason is a single unit. Here's the threshold that decided it — and the decision that quietly set it.

Building to Step Code 4 costs about $11,000 a unit on this project. The rebates come in slightly above that. Here's the stack, program by program — and the four ways it can slip away.

A 12-unit development in British Columbia, built past what the code requires. Two phases, in permit now, documented in real time — including the numbers that don't go our way.