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Three dates sit at the bottom of every BC contract of purchase and sale, and they do three different jobs. Completion, Possession and Adjustment: The ...

Title insurance is a one time premium, usually $250 to $700, that protects you against problems with your ownership of the property: title fraud, undisclosed ...

A Property Disclosure Statement, or PDS, is a form where the seller answers roughly fifty yes or no questions about the property, based on what ...

A depreciation report is a professional forecast of every major component in a strata building, what it costs to replace, when it needs replacing, and ...

A Form B, officially the Information Certificate, is the strata corporation’s official snapshot of one specific unit and the building it sits in. It tells ...

BC Property Transfer Tax is charged on the fair market value of the property, in brackets: 1% on the first $200,000, 2% up to $2 ...

With freehold you own the land and the building forever. With leasehold you own the building and the right to use the land for a ...

BC probate fees are roughly 1.4% of the estate’s value, plus a $200 court filing fee. Nothing on the first $25,000, 0.6% between $25,000 and ...

You are thinking about selling, and before anything else you want a number. How many weeks is this going to take? Can you plan a ...

Six hundred thousand dollars used to sound like a lot of money. On the North Shore in 2026 it makes you an entry level buyer, ...

You have got $100,000 saved. That is a serious accomplishment and it feels like it should unlock a lot. So the natural question is: what ...

The house is bigger than you need. The stairs are getting old. The yard is a weekend job you did not sign up for anymore. ...