The provincial government’s new 15 per cent tax on foreign purchasers of residential property is the talk of the town in Metro Vancouver. While many local residents have spent the last several days debating about the likely effect of the tax, others are already facing the consequences as buyers respond to the tax by failing to complete on binding agreements of purchase and sale.
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