Vancouver council votes to legalize and regulate Airbnb and other short-term rentals

[Source: The Georgia Straight, November 14, 2017] “Applying filters to data presented by the Inside Airbnb website shows a large number of Vancouver listings are for an entire place that is also available for more than 90 days of the year. That suggests some of these 2,408 units may not have full-time residents and are essentially operating as hotels.” Vancouver has joined a growing list of cities that have made peace with Airbnb. Today (November 14), city council voted seven to four [...]

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Starting next year, a B.C. realtor can’t represent both buyer and seller on one deal

[Source: Global News, November 15, 2017] In B.C., a single realtor can currently represent both buyer and seller on a home sale. It’s an arrangement that will end in March, as part of a slate of new rules that B.C.’s Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate (OSRE) introduced on Wednesday. The rules ban what’s called a “dual agency” deal, in which a realtor acts on behalf of the homebuyer and the seller at the same time. B.C. will be the first [...]

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