{"id":33,"date":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/umarmukhtar-com\/2026\/10\/19\/bcs-unsold-condo-tax-supporting-housing-availability-and-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","slug":"bcs-unsold-condo-tax-supporting-housing-availability-and-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/bcs-unsold-condo-tax-supporting-housing-availability-and-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"BC&#8217;s Unsold Condo Tax: Supporting Housing Availability and Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>A proposed tax would target about 5,000 vacant, unsold condos in Metro Vancouver, charging 2% of assessed value for units empty over a year, increasing by 1% each additional year. Estimates of unsold condos vary due to different construction stages included. Developers and experts warn the tax could lower prices short-term but cause delays and other issues. The policy&#039;s fate depends on the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grihik.com\/news\/news\/bcs-unsold-condo-tax-what-eby-proposed-and-why-developers-object\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed tax would target about 5,000 vacant, unsold condos in Metro Vancouver, charging 2% of assessed value for units empty over a year, increasing by 1% each additional year. Estimates of unsold condos vary due to different construction stages included. Developers and experts warn the tax could lower prices short-term but cause delays and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}