B.C.’s new eviction rules put home sales in jeopardy despite tweaks, real estate industry warns

When rumours started flying this spring that the B.C. government would extend the timeline for evicting a tenant during a home sale, Carole Caffrey’s clients immediately started looking to sell their rental properties before the new rules took effect.

Since April, the Vancouver-area realtor and rental property manager said she went from managing 52 rental homes to just 44 in the span of four months, as decades-old clients decided to sell because the regulations were becoming too onerous.