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FEBRUARY STATS 2026

March 23, 2026

Hello, Attached are February Real Estate Statistics  Market continues to be below average levels but optimistic there are signs...

Flipping Tax - Short term rentals

April 15, 2024

Nice to hear, Bank of Canada holds its key interest rate at 5% Here are recent updates on changes in the market regarding Short Term Rentals...

BANK OF CANADA RATE

January 31, 2024

The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at 5%, with the Bank Rate at 5¼% and the deposit rate at 5%.

BC Property Assessment 2022

January 20, 2022

Happy New Year   I hope the holiday season treated you and your family well, all things considered, and that 2022 will be a good...

Speculation/Vacancy Tax

March 5, 2021

BC’s Speculation and Vacancy Tax  Just a friendly reminder, all residential property owners in the taxable regions must complete...

Tenancy Laws

July 7, 2020

COVID-19 UPDATE ON RESIDENTIAL TENANCY LAWS The provincial government recently announced that the moratorium on rent increases and evictions...

Covid-19

March 26, 2020

What a crazy, historic time we’re currently living in.  I hope you are all well and safe. With everything that’s happening...

New Proposed Tax

June 4, 2019

The link below is an interesting article from the Toronto Sun suggesting another proposed tax for homeowners. The excerpt addressing homeowners...

Potential Applicable Taxes

March 4, 2019

 TAXES: Over the past year there have been changes and talk of different taxes applicable. For easy reference attached is a list of potential...

Speculation Tax Update

January 23, 2019

If you are in a designated region affected by Speculation Tax I wanted to make sure you had the most recent update sent out today which offers...

Speculation Tax Update

December 9, 2018

SPECULATION TAX UPDATE: The BC government has updated their speculation tax information, it is now in effect and the question that has been...

Speculation tax Update

October 17, 2018

B.C.'s finance minister introduced legislation October 16th  2018 to move ahead with a controversial speculation tax on vacant or...

JUNE 15 2018 CHANGES

July 11, 2018

You may have heard  news of  B.C. Real Estate Rules that came into effect on June 15th, 2018.  The New Rules define Client...

Speculation Tax

April 5, 2018

 Update on B.C. speculation tax is they have now exempted parts of the Island and parts of Fraser Valley.  Kelowna and West Kelowna...

New Tax Implications

March 19, 2018

Lots of talk these days about the implementation of new taxes.  To try and shed some light, here is what we know; PROPERTY TRANSFER...

Ready to Help

January 31, 2018

Providing valuable information and helpful services to valued clients like you is important to me.  So, if there's anything else I...

Merry Christmas !

December 8, 2017

Thank you for making 2017 a fabulous year and wishing you all the very best holiday season and amazing 2018 !   Cheers,

COMPUTER ALERT

August 11, 2017

Most of us are very attached to our computer devices so I felt it was important to share this new scam, which happened to me today.   If...

Water Restrictions In Place

August 9, 2017

Stage 1 Water Restrictions are officially in place. Under the current ‘Stage 1’ water restrictions: Properties with an odd...

Bank Of Canada Interest Rate

July 14, 2017

The Bank of Canada has raised its key interest rate as expected to 0.75 per cent — the central bank's first move upward in the cost...