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Buy in the City of Toronto and you pay land transfer tax twice, once to Ontario and once to the city. Here is the bracket math at real Toronto asking prices, plus both first-time buyer rebates.
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Toronto charges 3% of assessed value on homes left empty six months or more, and every owner must declare each year. Here are the rules, the exemptions, and what a buyer inherits at closing.
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Toronto has 8,031 active residential listings and 715 price cuts in the past 30 days. A supply-side read of the live listing book across Toronto and the GTA.
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Whistler asks a median $1,495,000 across 418 listings at $1,283 per square foot. Prices by type, the measurable ski-in premium, best areas, and nightly-rental zoning.
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Burnaby's 1,097 active condos run from $689 to $986 per square foot by area, and two homes in one tower can be 75 percent apart. The breakdown by neighbourhood and by building.
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Surrey has 102 active court-ordered sales, $161,000 to just under $12 million. The count by neighbourhood, the four areas holding everything under $500,000, and how BC's court process works.
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Kamloops has 1,427 active listings and a $614,900 median asking price, the lowest of any BC Central Interior region. Here is what each type asks by area.
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In a bare land strata you own the lot, not a box of air inside a building. That one difference changes your title, your property tax bill, and what the strata fee actually buys.
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All four major BC portals show the same MLS listings. What separates them is price history, expired listings, filters, strata data, and who actually pays the bills.
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Kelowna has 2,793 active listings and a $799,000 median asking price. Condos start at $475,000 and detached houses ask $1,189,000. Here is how the areas compare.
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Canadians moving from Calgary or Toronto are not foreign buyers, and the taxes that apply are not the ones most people worry about. Here is what actually changes when you buy in BC.
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Greater Vancouver closed August 2026 with 14,590 active listings at a $1,159,000 median and 66 days on market. Fraser Valley: 7,678 listings, $969,000. Every property type median held flat for the month, but listings kept aging and more than a third have now sat past 90 days.
