{"id":7971,"date":"2018-01-19T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:19:48","slug":"almost-every-homeowner-on-the-north-shore-is-now-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/almost-every-homeowner-on-the-north-shore-is-now-a-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Every Homeowner on the North Shore is Now A Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cmillion dollar line\u201d that used to divide West Vancouver and most of North Vancouver in the past has all but disappeared, with 98% of single-family homes on the North Shore worth more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\u2019s among the highest percentage of million-dollar homes in the region, ranging from 97.4% of all detached homes in the District of North Vancouver to 99.4% in the City of North Vancouver \u2013 the same percentage in the City of Vancouver, and just under the percentage for the University Endowment Lands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The information comes from Andy Yan, director of Simon Fraser University\u2019s City Program, who has been mapping the \u201cmillion dollar line\u201d in Metro Vancouver for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That 73% of single-family homes in the region are now worth more than $1 million \u2013 and that the \u201cmillion dollar line\u201d has now been pushed out into the Fraser Valley and other surrounding suburbs \u2013 is an indication of how fast real estate values have risen, said Yan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As late as 2014, million-dollar homes were largely concentrated in affluent neighbourhoods of West Vancouver and the west side of Vancouver, said Yan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But that\u2019s changed dramatically. Large areas of North Vancouver were pushed over the million-dollar line starting in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA million-dollar home used to be the upper crust of residential real estate. Now it\u2019s become the whole loaf,\u201d said Yan. \u201cThat leads into some profound challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIs $2 million the new $1 million line?\u201d he asked. \u201dHow do you create family friendly neighbourhoods when a single-family detached home may not be attainable on local incomes? That\u2019s really going to be the challenge for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those squeezed out of the market for single-family homes \u2013 or downsizing from them \u2013 are now putting pressure on the condo market, which has seen some of the largest jumps in assessed values this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Condos in view areas like Lower Lonsdale, Deep Cove, the West Vancouver waterfront and the Hamilton neighbourhood near Pemberton Heights all increased in value between 20% and 37% this year, according to Landcor Data Corp., which analyses BC Assessment data by neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Condos in many areas of the North Shore \u2013 from Lynnmour to Caulfeild \u2013 saw values rise between 10% and 25%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hikes to the assessments of single-family homes were largely confined to single-digit increases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again, areas like Lonsdale and Hamilton saw some of the bigger increases, although detached homes in Lynnmour \u2013 once considered one of the last affordable areas of the North Shore \u2013 went from an average value of $1.2 million to $1.5 million last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, the province raised the threshold at which property owners stand to lose part of the homeowners grant from $1.6 million to $1.65 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grant provides $570 towards property taxes for owners who qualify for the basic grant and more for seniors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the North Shore, about 33,500 homeowners \u2013 about half the total number \u2013 will qualify for the grant this year, according to Landcor data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\u2019s about the same as received the grant last year, after the previous Liberal government hiked the threshold from $1.2 million to $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owners of both condos and single-family homes in the District of North Vancouver and condo owners in the City of North Vancouver made up the bulk of grant recipients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A record number of property owners in the province \u2013 more than 4,458 \u2013 also had their assessments specially adjusted this year, to account for skyrocketing property values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under section 19.8 of the Assessment Act, help is granted to a very small number of homeowners in cases where land values have soared because the property could be put to a substantially different \u201chigher and better\u201d use but the house is still being occupied by the owners as a regular home and has been for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt speaks to the (situation of) the longtime homeowner whose income just can\u2019t keep up,\u201d said Jeff Tisdale, chief executive officer for Landcor, whose analysts crunched numbers based on the BC Assessment information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 207 homeowners on the North Shore qualified for that help this year \u2013 just slightly more than last year. Over half of those were homeowners in the City of North Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biv.com\/article\/2018\/1\/million-dollar-line-detached-homes-erased\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Million Dollar Line&#8217; of Homes Erased<\/a> by Jane Seyd | Business in Vancouver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmillion dollar line\u201d that used to divide West Vancouver and most of North Vancouver in the past has all but disappeared, with 98% of single-family homes on the North &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/almost-every-homeowner-on-the-north-shore-is-now-a-millionaire\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Almost Every Homeowner on the North Shore is Now A Millionaire &#8226; 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