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A Look Ahead at 2023

Happy New Year! As we begin a new year, it's a great time to reflect on the changes and challenges that the rental housing industry has faced over the past few years. It's also a great time to look forward to what may lie ahead for our industry and LandlordBC as an associ...
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A Year-End Message From Our CEO

As we approach the end of another year and reflect on the year that was, I’m sure like many of you, our members, I’m nervous about what the immediate future holds, but remain optimistic about the opportunities for our sector, province, and country. Needless to say, 202...
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Vacancy Control Ultimately Harms Renters

Vacancy control would tie rent controls to a unit rather than the tenant. Currently, rental owners have the flexibility to adjust rents between tenants to account for building and unit upgrades and other increased costs like property taxes, insurance and utilities, all of...
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FortisBC Rental Apartment Efficiency Program (RAP)

LandlordBC has had a long and mutually beneficial collaboration with FortisBC focused on delivering no-cost programs that improve energy efficiency to our members and the broader residential rental housing sector.  One of the best and most successful programs is the Forti...
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Rent Increase Cap

On Wednesday, September 7, BC’s Premier John Horgan announced that the 2023 standard annual rent increase percentage would not be based on inflation but instead capped at two percent. This percentage is in effect for any standard annual rent increase with an effective dat...