CRA employee leaked a slideshow outlining a planned crackdown on high-end homeowners with minimal incomes with a promise of 50 extra income auditors, plus 35 other staff on the B.C. real estate project. A federal crackdown on tax cheats in Vancouver’s sizzling housing market — which is acting like a flame to speculators, real estate predators and […]
Government’s numbers on foreign real estate buyers are nonsense
Government’s foreign buyer numbers way off according to Asian real estate conference Asia Real Estate Association of America, Vancouver chapter representatives say the government’s data sample is too low to be accurate. Agents, experts say Chinese buyers account for much more than 3% of B.C. homebuyers China Cash Power A provincial government statement that only […]
Brexit-Weary Brits & Trump-Dodging Yanks may come to Canada
Recent data from Google Trends has revealed that, immediately after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, there was a huge increase in the number of “move to Canada” searches originating in that country. This closely parallels the search patterns of United States citizens in light of Donald Trump’s success in the Republican […]