Vancouver’s foreign buyer tax sparked Chinese interest in rest of Canada, report finds

TChinese enquiries of the listings in the Vancouver real estate market slumped by 81 per cent year-over-year in July 2016, the month the city’s 15 per cent foreign buyers tax tax was announced, according to a new report from Sotheby’s and Juwai.com. Chinese property enquiries in several big Canada markets spiked in the months after Vancouver introduced its foreign buyers tax, according to a report based on data culled from searches on a top Chinese foreign property website.