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5 Reasons Every Landlord Should Enroll in Landlord Registry™

By Hollyburn Properties At Hollyburn, our business is anchored in four core principles that guide every member of our team: professionalism, service, quality, and commitment. In order to uphold these standards across our portfolio we feel a responsibility to self-go...
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BC Budget 2019

On February 19, 2019, the Honourable Carole James, Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier presented BC Budget 2019-20 with a stated premise to “create opportunities to make life better for people”.  With Budget 2019 the BC NDP government is working to continue implementin...
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Deadline for BC Assessment Appeals is January 31, 2019

LandlordBC is collaborating with Burgess Cawley Sullivan & Associates Ltd. to undertake a “mass appeal” of 2019 assessed values for multi-unit rental buildings…learn more below! Burgess Cawley Sullivan & Associates Ltd. (BCS) and LandlordBC are collaborating to underta...
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Taxes and Price Increases from Heaven

By Jeff Hayes LL.M, Lantern Properties Ltd. The first verse of the 1936 classic song “Pennies from Heaven” goes like this: Oh, every time it rains It rains pennies from heaven Don’t you know each cloud contains Pennies from heaven The song was about unexpected...
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Rental Housing Task Force Recommendations

Good for Renters and Rental Housing Providers Alike LandlordBC wishes to acknowledge the Rental Housing Task Force for undertaking a comprehensive review of the Residential Tenancy Act and putting forth a series of recommendations that strengthen consumer protections whi...
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Vancouver City Councillors to Consider 4.9% Property Tax Increase

Rental Housing Needs to be Exempt LandlordBC is a non-profit industry association representing over 3,300 owners and managers of rental housing in BC.  In September of this year we undertook an expense analysis of a purpose-built rental building in Metro Vancouver integr...