Smart Buying In The Fraser Valley

Strata fees quietly add up to some of the biggest costs of owning a condo or townhome, often tens of thousands of dollars over the years you own it. Duplexes and row homes without a strata corporation offer a different path, and when …

Construction cranes are getting harder to find on the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver skyline these days, and that is not by accident. Between slower housing starts and a presale condo market working through years of unsold inventory, British Columbia's new construction landscape looks very different heading into the back …

The tax is charged at a rate of: 1% on the first $200,000, 2% on the portion of the fair market value greater than $200,000 and up to and including $2,000,000, and. 3% on the portion of the fair market value greater than $2,000,000.

When you purchase or gain …