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B.C.’s Property Transfer Tax could be made less harmful
Burden can be a budget-buster for home buyers
(May 29, 2014)
The best way to deal with B.C.’s socially and economically harmful Property Transfer Tax would be to scrap it.However, the B.C. Chamber of Commerce is promoting a second-best solution that has a far better chance of winning support from provincial politicians hooked on spending our money.The Chamber’s approach, adopted at a policy session during its annual meeting in Richmond on Friday, is to lowe... read more.
Leaky condo crisis rears its head again in B.C.
Buildings that weren’t fixed earlier now face even costlier repairs
Read more: (May 29, 2014)

The leaky condo situation appears to be rearing its ugly, wet head again, with one estimate of between 14,120 and 24,000 remaining to repair after 2012.
Evidence of a second wave in British Columbia’s leaky-condo crisis is beginning to emerge, 15 years after the first one subsided.It is becoming more apparent as condo strata corporations prepare mandated depreciation reports on their buildings. Tha... read more.