Real Estate Talks

Yes! Sleep my little Pretties! Just like you did in 29.

Yawn...you should come up with something better. I'm calling it hear and now. No Great Depression coming in my lifetime. I'm only in my forties.

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Only Canadian citizens buy in metro Vancouver, not landed immigrant. If you aren't willing to become a citizen you're just passing through with no intention of setting up roots in Canada Why Eyes?  Why is this good for our housing market? I'm willing to listen to the reasons, before I give my reaso...

Only Canadian citizens buy in metro Vancouver, not landed immigrant. If you aren't willing to become a citizen you're just passing through with no intention of setting up roots in Canada Why Eyes?  Why is this good for our housing market? I'm willing to listen to the reasons, before I give my reaso...

Agree with everything you have said here. How about a minimum tax on properties that is punitive yet clawed back based on the required income to own a property. Something like this: You own a $5M home in Shaugnessy as a satelite family.  You pay virtually no income tax in Canada or BC because all y...

The answer to this is that CRA is useless. If they start dishing out jail time for tax evasion then people might obey the law Lots of articles like these out there these days.  I guess retirees spending 5 months a year is a bad thing now...can you imagine if they US were to do the same thing to Can...

I believe I am an open minded person and believe in reasonable, balanced and objective approaches to solve problems.  I am definitely opposed to the speculation tax, but think some of the NDPs policies are fair.   I think that all 3 levels of government and even the Metro Vancouver Region as a whole...

So if you rent your property out you're exempt from the tax? What bullshit. If these cheaters can come up with phoney owners they will most certainly be able to show phoney renters. Govt gave cheaters a loophole I was thinking of this.... however if they use phony renters they have to pay income ta...

So if you rent your property out you're exempt from the tax? What bullshit. If these cheaters can come up with phoney owners they will most certainly be able to show phoney renters. Govt gave cheaters a loophole Weren't you paying attention?  The whole point was to tax houses that were empty.   Did...

In BC they'd probably get a pat on the back.

those people should be going to jail!!  

Money laundering, tax evasion, multi-million dollar owners in welfare is like cancer to the system. I really hope David Eby and his team can clean house. You are pinning your hopes on a tax that is called a speculation tax, but does nothing to combat speculation.  Sayanything John is extremely corr...

You are pinning your hopes on a tax that is called a speculation tax, but does nothing to combat speculation.  Sayanything John is extremely corrupt and apparently David Eby isn't much better.  I have some reliable sources that know the two of them. I think we all agree on the problem, but none of ...

Canada needs immigration and I think you would agree that rich immigrants are better than poor immigrants that stress our social assistance resources. I'll take middle class immigrant over the rich ones - they make for better neighbours and are generally not tax evaders Money laundering, tax evasio...

Looks like CRA has some work to do: https://thinkpol.ca/2018/03/13/hong-kong-tycoon-linked-offshore-tax-havens-flipping-18m-vancouver-house-shell-company/ The CRA can do all the investigating they want, but they have no teeth to go after someone in Canada let alone in a foreign country. I'm guessin...

Looks like CRA has some work to do: https://thinkpol.ca/2018/03/13/hong-kong-tycoon-linked-offshore-tax-havens-flipping-18m-vancouver-house-shell-company/ The CRA can do all the investigating they want, but they have no teeth to go after someone in Canada let alone in a foreign country. I'm guessin...