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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner Issues New Guidelines
LandlordBC members will recall that in March 2018 the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) published recom...
News
2020 Maximum Rent Increase Announced
Today the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) released 2020’s maximum rent increase percentage as 2.6%. In their release, which ca...
Media Coverage
Finding good tenants dependant on being good landlords
LandlordBC's Director of Operations, Hunter Boucher, recently spoke with The Province about tenant screening.
Finding the rig...
Fraudulent “Landlords” – It’s Time Government Acted
Landlords and Property Managers have started to see a significant increase in what can only be described as one of the most despicable forms of fraud the rental housing industry has ever witnessed. While it is innocent prospective renters who are clearly the real victims...
Follow-Up: Residential Rental Tenure Zoning
On July 3, 3019 LandlordBC CEO David Hutniak sent a letter to City of Victoria Mayor and Council regarding a staff report entitled Residential Rental Tenure Zoning. In this follow-up letter of July 10, 2019 he provides recommendations on how the City of Victoria can posi...
Letter to City of Victoria Mayor and Council: Residential Rental Tenure Zoning
Below is a letter LandlordBC CEO David Hutniak sent to City of Victoria Mayor and Council on July 3, 2019 regarding a staff report entitled Residential Rental Tenure Zoning scheduled for consideration by the City of Victoria Committee of the Whole on July 4, 2019.
Mayo...
Ten on the 10th: Rental Housing Industry Q&A with David Hutniak of LandlordBC
Citified's Ten on the 10th is a monthly question-and-answer segment connecting readers with the insight and knowledge of Victoria's top real-estate and business professionals.
June's Ten on the 10th features Dave Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, British Columbia's top resou...
Aarti Investments Ltd. v. Baumann Court of Appeal Decision
An important outcome for residential landlords
Recently, reasons for judgment in the case of Aarti Investments Ltd. v. Baumann were released by the Court of Appeal. This case provided the Court of Appeal with a rare opportunity to clarify section 49(6) of the Residentia...
Our community needs your support for secure purpose-built rental housing
Mayor Kennedy Stewart and Council will be considering a rezoning application at a public hearing to be held Tuesday May 14th, 2019 at 6pm at Vancouver City Hall. The decision taken at this hearing will have far-reaching consequences for all future redevelopment of aging ...
2019 Property Taxation: Distribution of Property Tax Levy
Below is a letter CEO David Hutniak sent to City of Vancouver Mayor, Kennedy Stewart and the City Council on April 25th. We encourage all rental housing providers to write Mayor Stewart and Council requesting that they accept City of Vancouver Staff's recommendation NOT t...
Understanding BC’s History of Rent Control and Tax Policy to Improve Today’s Rental Housing Crisis
LandlordBC has produced a white paper, UNDERSTANDING BC'S HISTORY OF RENT CONTROLS AND TAX POLICY, intended to demonstrate that the “success” of the mid-80s Multiple Unit Residential Building (MURB) program was less about the deferred taxation benefits and more about the ...
Want more market rental housing without taxpayer subsidies? Here’s how.
NEWS RELEASE
VANCOUVER, BC – It is generally agreed that British Columbia is currently challenged by a rental housing supply and unaffordability crisis, particularly in the province’s large urban centres. Understanding that approximately one-third of British Columbians a...
An Open Letter to Mayor Stewart & Council – Reject Motion 6 Re: Rental 100
On Tuesday evening, the Vancouver City Council will vote on Motion 6 “Re-conceptualizing the City’s Rental 100 Program.” LandlordBC is asking the Mayor and Council of Vancouver to reject Motion 6 and we request that the City staff immediately start working with stakeholde...