POSTED: September 8, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
Canada’s real estate market may finally be showing signs of life again. After several years of higher borrowing costs, cautious buyers and slower sales, RBC Economics says the Canadian housing market appears to be taking steps toward recovery in 2026. But if you own a farm or acreage in British Columbia, there is an important […]
READ MOREPOSTED: September 1, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
British Columbia has confirmed another change to how much landlords can raise rents. Starting January 1, 2027, the maximum allowable annual rent increase will be 2.2%, slightly below the 2.3% limit in place for 2026. The Province says this marks the seventh consecutive year that the allowable increase has been capped at or below inflation. […]
READ MOREPOSTED: August 27, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
Every farm owner in British Columbia has, at some point, sat down with a property tax bill or a permit application and thought: this system was not built with today’s farm in mind. A new report out of Victoria suggests the province may be listening. In August 2026, the Legislative Assembly released its Budget 2027 […]
READ MOREPOSTED: August 17, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
British Columbia’s home sales numbers for July 2026 made headlines for the wrong reasons. According to the BC Real Estate Association, 6,561 homes changed hands across the province last month, down 6.7% from July 2025 and nearly 19% below the ten-year average for the month. The average residential price slipped 1.3% to $929,619, and total […]
READ MOREPOSTED: August 10, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
British Columbia’s July housing numbers came out this month, and on the surface they read like a shrug. Sales in Victoria, the Interior, and the Fraser Valley all landed within a few points of last year. Nothing dramatic. But underneath that flat headline, one number moved a lot, and it’s the number farm and acreage […]
READ MOREPOSTED: August 6, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
The Agricultural Land Reserve doesn’t change often, and when it does, farm and acreage owners pay attention. On July 27, the province opened a six-week public engagement on a proposal that could allow food processing facilities to be built on lower-grade soil inside the ALR. B.C. is asking for input from the agricultural and food-processing […]
READ MOREPOSTED: July 28, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
If you own farmland in the Agricultural Land Reserve, there’s a proposal on the table right now worth paying attention to, even if it never touches your soil directly. The Province of BC is engaged in a six-week consultation with the agricultural and food-processing sector, local governments, and First Nations about a change to how […]
READ MOREPOSTED: July 23, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
For the first time in modern record-keeping, British Columbia’s population went down instead of up. New data show a 0.7 per cent year-over-year decline in the first quarter of 2026. That might sound like a small number, but the shift behind it is not small at all. This province had grown by roughly 1.5 per […]
READ MOREPOSTED: July 13, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
Statistics Canada released new numbers this month on who actually owns rental housing in British Columbia, and the results are worth a second look if you own farmland, acreage, or ALR property. The data comes from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program and covers the 2022 reference year across several provinces, including BC. The headline number: […]
READ MOREPOSTED: July 7, 2026 | BY farmsinbc
If you’ve seen the recent headlines, you already know the number. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board says benchmark home prices in the region are down 26% from where they sat in 2022, with the June 2026 composite benchmark sitting just under $885,000, about 7% lower than a year ago. Sales were flat, with 1,147 […]
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