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By ThinkPol Staff Canada’s tax agency will tighten the controversial program that allowed wealthy tax evaders to turn themselves in without fear of prosecution or civil penalties. The Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) was set up in…
By ThinkPol Staff International speculators are buying up Vancouver properties to put together land assemblies that they then shadow flip to avoid paying BC’s foreign buyer tax. A real estate industry whistleblower sent ThinkPol one such example of an attempted…
By ThinkPol Staff A real estate industry whistleblower is questioning the reliability of Vancouver real estate statistics released by the realtors board. The insider claimed that Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s unwillingness to subject their statistics to independent scrutiny…
By ThinkPol Staff Dozens of homes in Metro Vancouver bought in the last two years are currently listed to be sold for a loss as speculators appear to exit Canada’s hottest real estate market. An industry insider sent ThinkPol sales…
By ThinkPol Staf A Parliamentary committee is recommending against the Liberal government’s plan to sell off Canada’s airports to raise billions in capital to be used towards other public infrastructure projects. “Limit rising passenger and operational costs by preventing the…
By ThinkPol Staff A Metro Vancouver real estate developer has been sentenced to 12 months probation and fined $42,950 for tax evasion, the Canada Revenue Agency says. Harpreet Kaur Sidhu of Burnaby, British Columbia, the sole director and shareholder of…
By ThinkPol Staff Home prices in areas subject to British Columbia’s foreign buyer tax stabilized while the real estate market frenzy continued unabated in other parts of the province, according to a preview of the 2018 property assessment. Typical detached…
By ThinkPol Staff A realtor listing an East Vancouver triplex for sale is boasting that the entire property is being run as an Airbnb hotel, which is a violation of Vancouver bylaws. An industry insider sent ThinkPol the Multiple Listing…
By ThinkPol Staff Airbnb and other short term rental platforms refuse to accept responsibility for unlawful actions by their hosts while at the same time shielding the lawbreakers against any meaningful law enforcement by making data impossible to obtain, a…
On Sunday, ThinkPol published a story about how a real estate speculator is apparently attempting to sell for $15 million a Coquitlam property they bought for $2.6 million less than a year ago. Now, the realtor listing the property is blaming a typographical mistake on his part for the apparently astronomical markup of the attempted flip, and claims that the owners are only seeking to make a 100% profit.