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Seller guides
Pricing, preparation, and the tax picture most sellers underweight — what your home is worth, what you net after the mortgage and the tax owing, and how the sale actually unfolds.
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The one to read first
The roadmap for this whole path — read it before the rest.
BC Home Seller — Complete Pillar
Pre-listing prep, pricing decision (CMA × HPI × neighbourhood comp scrub), subject-to-sale logic, capital gains × PRE × T2091, BC Home Flipping Tax exposure, net proceeds at sale.
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Every seller guides guide
Each one is sourced to a primary document and re-verified every quarter.
Capital Gains Tax × BC Real Estate
Federal capital-gains rules as they apply to BC real estate sales.
Multiple Homes for Family on a Langley Acreage: How It Works
How many homes an acreage can hold, why two homes on one title stay one property you cannot separately sell or mortgage, owning and paying for it together, and the three taxes that fire when you add family to title.
Principal Residence Exemption (PRE) — BC Seller Reference
Federal PRE × BC capital-gains × BC Home Flipping Tax interaction.
RU-1 Acreage in Langley: What You Can Build, In and Out of the Agricultural Land Reserve
What RU-1 actually permits on a Langley acreage — principal home, additional residence, the basement nuance that changes the floor-area maths, and how the Agricultural Land Reserve changes every answer.
Selling a presale assignment in BC
Assigning a presale contract before completion: the developer’s consent and fee, what it fetches, GST on the premium, income tax, the flipping taxes and the register.
SR-1 Lots on the Salmon River, Langley: What You Can Build
One-acre semi-rural Langley: a suite or a coach house but not both, why septic capacity is the real gate rather than zoning, and what the Hopington aquifer means for your well.
The 200 Street corridor plan, Township of Langley
What council adopted on June 15, 2026: five rapid-bus stations on 200 Street, 12 storeys at the hubs, six in the next ring, and what is funded.
The BC Home Flipping Tax
The 20% rate on a sale within 365 days, the fade to zero by 730, and the life-event exemptions.
What’s My Home Worth? A BC Seller’s Guide to Real Home Value
Why BC Assessment isn’t market value, what online estimates miss, and what actually moves the number — with a free comparative market analysis as the real alternative.
