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pqpolitics.bsky.social
You know what would be a good question for a Vancouver plebiscite?

Do you want to drive out domestic #VanRE speculators like Poilievre, #OffshoreGregor, foreign buyers & foreign capital from Vancouver RE market by legislation & only have homes for locals living in them?

#HomesForWhom?

#vanpoli
fight for land banks Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow Pete Quily @pqpolitics 2022-10-10 Remember Vancouverites, Mark Marissen's ex wife who he repeatedly campaigned for, Christy Clark during our housing crisis went in a mission to China & Hong Kong to get billionaires and millionaires to invest in Vancouver real estate. Team foreign #Landbanks #vanpoli #vanre OUVER ANKS Need to park your We're opening hun new branches to se NOW! 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets in the world. tit sendering of our latot derelyme! Banque de Terre on Thurlore North Shore News • 2022-10-09 Ex-B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduced herself as a "longtime Liberal" in a robocall urging voters to choose her ex-husband, Mark Marissen, for mayor of Vancouver on Oct. 15. nsnews.com/bc-... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I•I... • 2023-05-30 A compeling article by nom warning that @Vote4ABC ignores staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford...
October 6, 2026 at 4:54 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
B/c left-wing, centrist or right wing govts ALL prioritize & allow:

Foreign buyers

Foreign capital

Domestic real estate speculators profits, like Poilievre, Trudeau, housing minister #OffshoreGregor

VS locals living here

Need Singapore Stamp Tax. 65% for companies etc

#bcpoli #vanpoli #VanRE
CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore #HomesForWhom? #SupplyForWhom? Ban #GlobalWealthHomeHoarders Ban or Annually, not one time, heavily tax #DomesticSpeculatorHomeHoarders Homes for living. Not landbanks for foreigners, foreign capital or domestic real estate speculators like Poilievre and Trudeau
September 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Anyone spouting "more supply! legalize housing" is just a stooge of the real estate industry and young "progressives" in particular need to understand this

www.facebook.com/Lidsville/po... #vanpoli #VanRE #LandBanks
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwtung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow VANCoUVer LAND BANKS NEW Need to park your money? We're opening hundreds of new branches to serve you now! pic of duplex land banks CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore
September 13, 2026 at 6:14 AM
news-flows-ir.bsky.social
‘This is not about stopping housing’: Why locals object to Dunsink town proposal

One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned
‘This is not about stopping housing’: Why locals object to Dunsink town proposal
One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned
www.irishtimes.com
August 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
paulboone63.bsky.social
Oh great. Welcome to Concreteshire again. Another love-in with developers instead of forcing them to build out their existing landbanks with houses that people can actually afford. Perhaps have a look at the 750k empty homes first, and get them back into use?
July 21, 2026 at 6:24 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
How many locals living in Vancouver and Burnaby can afford a $1 million home? Criminalize #LandBanks

"In Metro Van, roughly a third of unsold units are priced above $1 million and, in Vancouver & Burnaby specifically, that figure climbs to about 80%"

macleans.ca/economy/real... #Vanpoli #VanRE
#FightorLandbanks woman looking and condos Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwtung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow piggy bank ontop of condos Vancouver land banks. Need to park your money? we're opening hundreds of new branches to serve you pics of duplexes The CEO of CHC, Evan Siddall, asked Vancouverites not to blame foreigners for the affordability crunch and the swollen housing bubble. While he does have a valid argument (about who to blame). there are a few other things to point out. This is a housing bubble fuelled by cheap and easy credit. available to anyone with a pulse, including foreigners. (The bubble) is perhaps most evident in Richmond, where house prices have soared 80% in the last 3 years, the most of any city in the Lower Mainland. ... Richmond also had the highest concentration of foreign buyers, who accounted for 25% of sales prior to the 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers.... (The CMH's) "study" shows only 2.2% of the condo market is owned by foreigners. But the data was collected by cold-calling property managers and asking them to be honest about their clients citizenship. (It does not seem) like a reliable way to collect data on which to structure future housing policies. So what is the extent of foreign ownership in condos? Well, the Brighouse area in downtown Richmond, which is now dubbed "Ghost City." has the highest concentration of foreign buyers. Realtor Steve Saretsky found 46% of condos sold in a core area of Richmond were âvacant.a (Photo by Graeme Wood illustrates "blacked- out" units.) It's chalk full of brand new condo towers sold to VIP speculators. This year 46% of condos sold were listed as "vacant" (which suggests many owners live outside the city and/or country). This is much higher than Vancouver's 27%, which forced Mayor Robertson to implement a vacancy tax. There are no property managers for empty condos. Nobody hires a property manager to watch over tenants that don't exist. Siddall is right, we shouldn't blame foreigners, we should blame wild studies and the inaction of governments to collect concrete data.
July 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
dalevince.com
We don't have a housing crisis because we have a planning problem - whether you blame that on Newts or not. It's because we have a building problem - an effective cartel of big builders, sat on massive (12 yr) landbanks, which they release into the market at the speed which ensures high house prices
July 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
maisongladys.bsky.social
The government needs to build council houses not rely on big housing speculators sitting on landbanks to maximise profits.

Pushing on a piece of string won't deliver.

#r4today
June 17, 2026 at 6:50 AM
longtail-news.bsky.social
Feed: "The Independent Singapore News"
By: Anna Maria Romero on Monday, May 4, 2026
Wealth flows into Singapore as Chinese invest in property
“Chinese developers who have had experience in Singapore are now familiar with the rules, regulations and market behaviour, and are expected to continue bidding to replenish their landbanks," said Savills Singapore's Alan Chong.
theindependent.sg
May 5, 2026 at 7:14 AM
catus14.bsky.social
Goodness I didn't realize it was so simple. So just cancel all difficult regulations, train 100,000 building workers, ignore Green & other NIMBY councils & buy all the landbanks from housebuilders? I agree, we could have had 1 million council houses already. Any other overlooked policies/solutions?
April 26, 2026 at 1:58 PM
darthhippy.bsky.social
I know some progressive rural by the highway signposts but they are outnumbered by the folks who havent sold their landbanks yet and bitter. Anyway things are going to get so bad (France had bread we have red meat) that there is going to be a pairing down of demands and broad coalition will form
April 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Great. Please call them #LandBanks for domestic real estate speculators or foreign capital vs homes for locals.

Want a big difference in affordability in NYC?

Do a #SingaporeStampTax

0% tax for citizen for 1st home, 20% 2nd, 30% 3rd

60% for foreigners

65% for businesses

#HomesForWhom?
#FightForLandbanks Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow #HomesForWhom? #SupplyForWhom? Ban #GlobalWealthHomeHoarders Ban or Annually, not one time, heavily tax #DomesticSpeculatorHomeHoarders Homes for living. Not landbanks for foreigners, foreign capital or domestic real estate speculators like Poilievre and Trudeau CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% Second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore
April 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Yes if you really wanna solve the housing problem, you do with Singapore does make it extremely expensive for domestic real estate, speculators foreign buyers and foreign capital to buy up homes to use as #LandBanks instead of home locals can live in
Price locals out of the market or into poverty
April 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
yes, please spread the word widely

Homes for locals living in the city.

Or homes for domestic real estate speculators and foreign capital #Landbanks
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow
April 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
financialworld.bsky.social
Housebuilder Berkeley to pause buying new land for homes amid global volatility

uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/housebu...

#housing #building #landbanks #investment #growth #mortgage
Housebuilder Berkeley to pause buying new land for homes amid global volatility
The risk of global volatility slowing recovery in the housing market ‘has now become a reality’, Berkeley said.
uk.finance.yahoo.com
April 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
irishtimes.com
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent: We face ‘an existential threat’ over €4bn pension liability
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent: We face ‘an existential threat’ over €4bn pension liability
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent has ambitious plans to redevelop landbanks around Heuston and Connolly and build commercial resilience
www.irishtimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
irishtimes.com
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent: We face ‘an existential threat’ over €4bn pension liability
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent: We face ‘an existential threat’ over €4bn pension liability
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent has ambitious plans to redevelop landbanks around Heuston and Connolly and build commercial resilience
www.irishtimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 7:07 AM
irishtimes.com
Potential €4bn in pension liabilities hang over State transport group looking to the future
Potential €4bn in pension liabilities hang over State transport group looking to the future
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent has ambitious plans to redevelop landbanks around Heuston and Connolly and build commercial resilience
www.irishtimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 5:06 AM
irishtimes.com
Potential €4bn in pension liabilities hang over State transport group looking to the future
Potential €4bn in pension liabilities hang over State transport group looking to the future
CIÉ’s new CEO Stephen Kent has ambitious plans to redevelop landbanks around Heuston and Connolly and build commercial resilience
www.irishtimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 5:01 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
One of the reasons we live in Vancouver we like to look at the mountains

More forests of skyscrapers blocked our views

Will cause more land lift.

Higher rents for renters and retailers, higher costs to buy homes.

Will get more gargantuan #Landbanks and price us out of our city

#vanpoli #vanre
Pete Quily @pqpolitics 2022-10-10 Remember Vancouverites, Mark Marissen's ex wife who he repeatedly campaigned for, Christy Clark during our housing crisis went in a mission to China & Hong Kong to get billionaires and millionaires to invest in Vancouver real estate. Team foreign #Landbanks #vanpoli #vanre OUVER ANKS Need to park your We're opening hun new branches to se NOW! 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets in the world. tit sendering of our latot derelyme! Banque de Terre on Thurlore North Shore News • 2022-10-09 Ex-B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduced herself as a "longtime Liberal" in a robocall urging voters to choose her ex-husband, Mark Marissen, for mayor of Vancouver on Oct. 15. nsnews.com/bc-...
March 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Vancouverites should ask is the city of Vancouver for the people who live and work in it?

Or is it for the #vanre billionaires and multimillionaire developers and the politicians they own, & domestic real estate speculators like Gregor Robertson, Poilievre, Trudeau & Carney?

#vanpoli
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow fight for land Banks woman, looking at a condo Tower filled with land banks to stash, cash and screw locals #COVIDisNotOver... 2023-05-31 ... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I•l... • .2023-05-30 A compeling article by nom warning that @Vote4ABC ignores staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford...
March 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
gingerweegie.bsky.social
Watch all the new house prices take a hike.
Throwing money at the problem will fix nothing. Make housebuilders open up their landbanks and that will have more of a positive effect for buyers
March 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
paulboone63.bsky.social
Maybe get the developers to build out their landbanks then, instead of letting them get more and more permissions to concrete over green fields.
February 27, 2026 at 9:43 PM
caitbsky.bsky.social
The racists keep blaming immigrants for housing shortages while at least one local business landbanks over 30,000 vacant properties.

#AusPol
February 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
aldunne.eurosky.social
"also, no pressure whatsoever will be brought to bear on owners of vacant or derelict properties, or of undeveloped landbanks with planning permission. This hands-off strategy will also hopefully help to increase supply but of course, you guessed it, not just yet"

#DerelictIreland
January 31, 2026 at 1:24 PM