As part of MLA Canada’s 20 Years of Real Estate Success Celebrations, we invite you to join Ryan Lalonde, President, and Cameron McNeill, Executive Director, as they review some of the most captivating headlines from their past 20 years in real estate.
"We could get lost in this question all morning.
Bill 28 was introduced by the BC government on July 25. 2016. The Bill amended the property transfer act overnight and included an additional 15% transfer tax on foreign entities buying property in Metro Vancouver.
The purpose of this policy was to reduce demand in specific micro-markets where it was believed that foreign demand was concentrating its home-buying activities.
In the lead up to enactment, various neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, experienced aggressive price growth, including active neighbourhoods like West Vancouver, Shaughnessy, Marine, and UBC. The immediate impact of the policy proved to be effective on specific markets, wiping away years of equity growth.
What you will not read about, is how the appetite for Canadian real estate was not snuffed out, but merely redirected. As a result, the same buyer groups that this policy was aimed at, redirected their interest towards presale condos, spurring one of the biggest presale price growth markets on record.
From 2014 to 2018, presale in every market doubled in value, with much of this growth occurring post-Bill 28.
So if our viewers are wondering why the market escalated so quickly in these years, we can thank in part Bill 28," explains Lalonde.
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