British Columbia Property Transfer Tax Records

Property Transfer Tax (PTT) data from the Government of British Columbia details market real estate transactions within the province. The dataset contains annual records from at least 2017 to 2026, with data suppressed for municipalities with fewer than five transactions to protect privacy. It is used to track property market activity and tax revenue.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional real estate market trends based on transaction volumes.
• Assessing property tax revenue impacts for government budgeting.
• Studying the effects of tax policy changes on transaction activity.
• Mapping property transaction density across municipalities and regional districts.

Strengths

• Provides a multi-year time series from at least 2017 to 2026.
• Includes data for all municipalities in British Columbia, offering province-wide coverage.
• Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as column names, row counts, and file sizes are consistently missing from all source descriptions.
• Data is suppressed ('Not Releasable') for municipalities with 1-4 transactions, limiting granular analysis in low-volume areas.
• Descriptions contain conflicting update dates (e.g., '2018 data updated as of June 2017').

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Collected from mandatory Property Transfer Tax filings for market transactions.

Time Range

2017 to 2026

Freshness

Most recent dataset described is for 2026 transactions, with platform metadata last updated on 2026-04-17.

Geography

Province of British Columbia, Canada, aggregated by municipality and regional district.