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Jul. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The View from the New York Times on the $2.7 Million House in Lions Bay

Last week, Lisa Prevost of The New York Times took a look at purchasing a four-bedroom house on the “bluffs” of Vancouver; in…
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Jun. 26, 2018 / Colin Stein

Davidoff on the Economic Policy Change We Need: A Tax on One, the Other (or Both) of Your Houses

As is widely acknowledged, single family homes are now unaffordable to most new home buyers in Metro Vancouver. Even with…
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Jul. 18, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Empty House Tax On Trial

D. John Goundrey, in Business In Vancouver, looks into some legal sides (five) of the proposed empty house tax. He…

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