If EHT is not tracking primary residence but location at time of declaration, and declarations can be made by a proxy — are we tracking local owners, or local realtors/lawyers?
Empty data from Mayor’s office on Empty Homes Tax.
Big Loopholes in Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax
Want to avoid Vancouver’s Empty Home Tax?
Find the right strata.
The extended empty home reporting deadline is approaching.
There’s been plenty of advertising. But did you know EHT specifically exempts condos where strata rules restrict rentals?
NPA votes against tax on property flippers
Vancouver City Council proposes province tax property flippers… But NPA voted against.
ICYMI, as the BC Budget was being delivered, the rest of Vancouver City Council passed Adriane Carr’s “Call for Bold Provincial Actions to Tackle Housing Affordability.”
UBCM Housing Strategy for BC
Union of BC Municipalities have released a housing policy paper, “A Home For Everyone: A Housing Strategy for British Columbians” that consolidates some excellent recommendations.
Over six months later, negligent developers still screwing over local neighbours.
Word that the developers of the Brixton Flats project in Chinatown are refusing to fairly compensate residents of the half dozen homes they destroyed back in in April, when a wind storm collapsed a brick retaining wall they had been constructing (ironically covering over the very mural they have featured in their promo for the new development).