25 Percent of BC Homebuyers Are Investors, StatCan Says

A home sold in Vancouver, where investors represented around one-third of all condominium apartment buyers. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Investors make about a quarter of real estate purchases in British Columbia, according to new numbers released by Statistics Canada.

The report called Investors among residential real estate buyers: An analysis of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia, was released on Dec. 3. It looked at the role investors play in the housing markets of the three provinces using statistics gathered from 2018 to 2020.