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Reality check—foreign buyers aren’t buying up B.C.’s housing stock

Non-resident investors owned only 2.5 per cent of all houses in the province.


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Heavy-handed policies such as B.C.’s “speculation” tax target symptoms rather than causes.


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It takes 21 months (on average) for homebuilders to obtain building permits from Vancouver City Hall.


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In today's budget, B.C. NDP Finance Minister Carole James said the government’s housing plan will be “comprehensive."


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Metro Vancouver’s housing crunch exists primarily because there aren’t enough new homes getting built.


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Historically low interest rates have enabled families to more than double their mortgage borrowing power since 2000.


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Regulatory red tape is resulting in fewer new homes than there otherwise would be with a growing pool of buyers, contributing to rising prices.