{"id":77,"date":"2026-11-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/newwesthomes-ca\/2026\/11\/14\/could-a-relaxed-foreign-buyer-ban-help-kickstart-housing-development-in-b-c\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:00:00","slug":"could-a-relaxed-foreign-buyer-ban-help-kickstart-housing-development-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/11\/14\/could-a-relaxed-foreign-buyer-ban-help-kickstart-housing-development-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a relaxed foreign buyer ban help kickstart housing development in B.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The federal budget would extend the ban on foreign purchases of existing homes until 2029 while allowing non-residents to buy newly built homes. Supporters say the change could help sell about 4,500 unsold condos in Metro Vancouver and improve pre-sale demand, helping developers finance new projects. Its impact may be limited by provincial foreign-buyer taxes, and its effect on affordability remains uncertain. The budget also expands access to 30-year mortgages for some first-time buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/vancouver\/article\/federal-budget-could-a-relaxed-foreign-buyer-ban-help-kickstart-housing-development-in-bc\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal budget would extend the ban on foreign purchases of existing homes until 2029 while allowing non-residents to buy newly built homes. Supporters say the change could help sell about 4,500 unsold condos in Metro Vancouver and improve pre-sale demand, helping developers finance new projects. Its impact may be limited by provincial foreign-buyer taxes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newwesthomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}