Abbotsford, British Columbia
Abbotsford is the farm capital of British Columbia on the only measure the province actually publishes: $139,586,180 of farm-class assessment, 24% of BC's entire farm class and more than Chilliwack and the Township of Langley combined have each. The City says about 72% of its 389 square kilometres sits inside the Agricultural Land Reserve, that 55% of BC's table eggs and 45% of its chicken come from here, and that gross farm receipts passed $853 million. Three-quarters of the city's assessed value is land rather than buildings, the City itself owns the international airport — bought from Transport Canada on 1 January 1997 for ten dollars — and the single biggest building in town, the 568,317 sq ft Sevenoaks Shopping Centre, sits in a Richmond developer's own investment portfolio.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 16 sources · 6 tier A · 1 tier B · 1 tier C · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
British Columbia's land title register is open to anyone but priced per search. The Land Title and Survey Authority's Customer Fee Listing, fees as at 1 April 2026, charges $11.06 for a title search under section 377 of the Land Title Act; there is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The free half is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filings required since 30 November 2020, search open since 30 April 2021, priced NIL — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships holding BC land; it is used here to understand which entity holds an asset, never to publish a person. Abbotsford is on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table at $105.26. In a city where three-quarters of the assessed value is land and roughly 72% of the land area is in the Agricultural Land Reserve, the gap in the record is specific: the Agricultural Land Reserve is a zoning designation and not a register of title, farm-class assessment is a tax classification and not a register of title, and nobody publishes who owns a BC farm. What Abbotsford does publish well is its own side of the ledger — audited statements that account for the airport it bought for ten dollars, a seven-year statistical series on assessment and permits, and a permissive tax-exemption bylaw that lists 182 exempt properties with their folio numbers and civic addresses.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 — the LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at April 1, 2026, prices a "Title Search" and "For a search under section 377 or a copy of the search results, or both" at $11.06. A search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. Abbotsford is in LTSA’s Tax Certificates Online table at $105.26.
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- bcassessment.ca — “Any commercial use of these data in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, including the use of such data for business, residential address or telephone directory services or any solicitation service is specifically prohibited except with the prior written authority of the owner of the copyright.”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotsford International Airport (YXX) Abbotsford, BC |
Institutional | City of Abbotsford The 1997 transfer came with a reversion: "Conditions of the transfer agreement require that the property and equipment transferred to the City must be used for the operation of the airport. In the event the City ceases to operate the airport, the property and equipment will transfer back to Transport Canada for proceeds of ten dollars." The City runs it as a separate fund: $10,087,000 of Airport Operating Fund revenue in 2025 against $9,272,000 budgeted, a $3.3 million surplus before amortization, 20 approved FTEs. 2025 traffic was 1,026,000 passengers and 196,000 aircraft movements, against a peak of 1,275,000 in 2023 and 316,000 in 2020. |
Government | CAD $10 1997-01-01 "The City of Abbotsford acquired the Abbotsford International Airport from Transport Canada on January 1, 1997, for the nominal cost of ten dollars" — City of Abbotsford 2025 Annual Report, notes to the consolidated financial statements. Property and equipment transferred were recorded at fair value. A |
| Sevenoaks Shopping Centre 32900 South Fraser Way 568,317 sq ft leasable (574,250 sq ft on 35 acres per the manager) |
Retail | Dava Developments Ltd. Dava Developments Ltd., a Richmond development company, lists Sevenoaks in its own portfolio under "Major Shopping Centre (Investment)", leasable area 568,317 sq ft, address 32900 S Fraser Way — alongside Royal City Centre in New Westminster and Ladner Centre. Morguard's leasing site, which names "Building Management Morguard Investments Limited", calls it "the Premier Shopping destination in the Fraser Valley. Offering 574,250 square feet of retail space on 35 acres of land with 5 million shoppers per year". The Abbotsford News records that it "officially opened on Oct. 15, 1975… and featured Woodward's, Eaton's and 40 other retailers". |
Private company | —B |
| Reach Cultural Centre 32388 Veterans Way |
Institutional | City of Abbotsford The only "local authority property" on Abbotsford's Permissive Tax Exemption (2026) Bylaw, 3686-2025, adopted 21 October 2025: item 1, Reach Cultural Centre Society, folio 5168017100, 32388 Veterans Way, land and improvements. The bylaw defines local authority property as "land or improvements that are owned or held by a municipality, regional district or other local authority and that the council considers are used for a purpose of the local authority" — so the City's own bylaw places this parcel in municipal hands and the Society in occupation. |
Government | —A |
| The City's own estate — 1,616 parcels and $489 million of land across the City of Abbotsford |
Land | City of Abbotsford ParcelMap BC records 1,616 Local Government parcels covering 2,875.4 ha inside Abbotsford — 7.9% of the titled surface area — and the largest single titled parcel of any kind in the city, 441.7 ha, is a Local Government parcel. In the City's own accounts land is its biggest asset category: $489 million net book value at the end of 2025, against buildings $133 million, transportation $227 million, waterworks $234 million, storm drainage $196 million, sanitary sewer $150 million, airport infrastructure $18 million and assets under construction $146 million, out of $1,672 million in all. Land has grown from $455 million in 2023. |
Government | —A |
| Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society, 2740 Fuller Street 2740 Fuller Street, units 101 onward |
Residential | Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society Ten separate strata folios at 2740 Fuller Street, each exempted as "land and improvements" under Abbotsford's 2026 permissive exemption bylaw — the most concentrated single-address holding on that list. The bylaw exempts property "owned or held by a charitable, philanthropic or other not for profit corporation" used for a purpose directly related to that corporation's purposes, so the Society is named by the City's own bylaw against each folio. Supportive Care Holdings Society holds eight folios in the same way, most of them units at 2776 Bourquin Crescent West. |
Institution | —A |
| BC Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches holdings 2311 Clearbrook Road, 31980 Oak Avenue and ten further folios |
Institutional | BC Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Twelve folios on Abbotsford's 2026 permissive exemption bylaw, more than any other single entity — including 2311 Clearbrook Road and 31980 Oak Avenue, several exempted as "Land" only. The next-largest multi-parcel holders on the same bylaw are Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society (10), Bethesda Christian Association and Supportive Care Holdings Society (8 each), Communitas Supportive Care Society (7), Archway Community Services (5), the Trustees of Congregation entries (5) and the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford (4). The bylaw runs to 182 named entries across 185 folios in five classes: local authority, not for profit, athletic and service club, place of worship, and independent school. |
Institution | —A |
| High Street Shopping Centre 3122 Mt Lehman Road — civic address not stated in the documents opened |
Retail | Not established the source would not open Abbotsford's open-air centre beside Highway 1 at Mt Lehman. Its former web address, shophighstreet.com, now serves an unrelated luxury-handbag resale shop, and nothing else opened names an owner. No owner is claimed. |
Not established | —C |
| Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre, and the University of the Fraser Valley Abbotsford campus Abbotsford, BC — civic addresses not stated in the documents opened |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it ParcelMap BC records 176 Crown Agency parcels covering 247.7 ha and 135 Crown Provincial parcels covering 295.5 ha inside Abbotsford; the layer gives owner class and not owner name, and no institutional source opened for either body. The hospital and the university are the obvious occupants and this record assigns no parcel to either. Separately, 13 Federal parcels cover 566.6 ha, one of them 219.4 ha — the fourth-largest titled parcel in the city. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Abbotsford's roll is the clearest land-versus-buildings split of the five cities in this batch: on the City's own 2025 figures, land is assessed at $43.16 billion and improvements at $14.48 billion — land is 74.9% of the city's assessed value. That is what a farm belt pressed against a metropolitan boundary looks like in money. The city has no major-industry assessment at all — zero — and a $2.32 billion light-industry class that is the seventh-largest in BC, and the largest farm-class base in the province.
Farm-class assessed value, and its rank in BC$139.59M — 1st of 162 BC municipalities
$139,586,180 on the 2026 roll: 23.9% of British Columbia's entire farm-class total of $582,908,970. Chilliwack is second at $79,540,851 and the Township of Langley third at $66,995,708; Delta, Surrey, Spallumcheen, Richmond, Kelowna, Pitt Meadows and Kent follow. BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026. Farm class is a tax classification under the Assessment Act, not a register of who owns the land.
City total assessed value (2026 roll)$55.88B — 11th of 162 BC municipalities
$55,884,945,912 for general municipal purposes: residential $44,343,689,646, business and other $8,846,367,155, light industry $2,322,608,751, utilities $196,044,276, farm $139,586,180, recreation and non-profit $36,649,900, supportive housing $4, major industry nil, managed forest land nil. Light industry is 7th-largest in BC behind Surrey, Delta, Richmond, the Township of Langley, Burnaby and Vancouver. Schedule 701 for 2026.
Land as a share of the city's own assessed value74.9%
The City's own seven-year series for the 2025 roll: general assessment land $43,162,073 thousand against improvements $14,482,347 thousand, $57,644,420 thousand in all — land is 74.9% of it, up from 71.6% in 2019. Average residential assessed value (strata and single family combined) was $909,000 in 2025: $678,000 land and $231,000 improvements. The City also reports 51,000 properties on the tax roll. City of Abbotsford 2025 Annual Report, statistical section.
Share of the municipality that is titled, and the private share of it93.2% titled; 83.9% of that private
Of 36,267.5 ha in 32,012 active surface parcels inside Abbotsford — 93.2% of the municipality's 38,926.7 ha — ParcelMap BC records 30,446.3 ha in 29,837 Private parcels (83.9%), 2,875.4 ha in 1,616 Local Government parcels (7.9%), 1,644.8 ha in 74 Untitled Provincial parcels (4.5%), 566.6 ha in 13 Federal parcels (1.6%), 295.5 ha Crown Provincial (0.8%), 247.7 ha Crown Agency (0.7%), 188.1 ha unclassified and 3.2 ha Mixed Ownership. A further 21,534 building strata parcels sit on top of that surface and are excluded from the area arithmetic. Derived aggregate only; no rows reproduced.
City net tangible capital assets$1,672M, of which $489M is land
Net book value at 31 December 2025, in millions: land 489, waterworks 234, transportation 227, storm drainage and detention 196, sanitary sewer 150, assets under construction 146, buildings 133, vehicles 23, airport 18, park improvements 16, diking, drainage and irrigation 16, machinery and equipment 17, land improvements 5, asset retirement obligations 2 — 1,672 in all, up from 1,440 in 2019. City of Abbotsford 2025 Annual Report.
Whole-city turnover, 20252,599 sales, $2.38B, 50 of them farms
2,599 market transactions in the City of Abbotsford across 2025 — 2,463 residential (1,298 strata, 870 single-family), 83 commercial of which 5 industrial, 50 farm — with total fair market value of $2,379,064,914, residential value $2,036,080,045, and $37,085,589 of property transfer tax paid. 249 transactions involved a corporation and 2,351 an individual, with all twelve months reported. BC Ministry of Finance property transfer tax data, municipal monthly file 2025.
Building permits, 2025958 permits, $584.6M, 1,728 housing units
The City issued 958 building permits in 2025 with a construction value of $584,584 thousand, of which $501,640 thousand was new construction — down from 1,070 permits and $784,349 thousand in 2024. Its own narrative gives "Approved development applications for 1,451 housing units and issued building permits for 1,728 units for a combined construction value of $585 million." The seven-year permit series runs 1,596 (2019), 1,811, 1,219, 1,193, 1,142, 1,070, 958. City of Abbotsford 2025 Annual Report.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
This is the heart of the Abbotsford record and it is also where the public register runs out. The City's own account of its farmland is specific and quantified — "approximately 72% of the land is located within the Agricultural Land Reserve", 27,413 hectares of ALR of which 17,213 hectares (63%) were actively farmed, more than 2,900 hectares in blueberries and 1,154 in raspberries, 55% of BC's table eggs and 45% of its chicken, 40% of the Lower Mainland's milk, gross farm receipts over $853 million and more than 1,300 farms — and not one of those farms is named anywhere a reader can check. The Agricultural Land Reserve is a zoning designation administered by the Agricultural Land Commission; farm class is an assessment category; neither is a register of title, and BC publishes no farmland ownership dataset. So the holdings below are the ones that are documented: the City, the senior governments by class, and the institutional bodies the City's own exemption bylaw names parcel by parcel.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Farms and farm companies inside the Agricultural Land Reserve, unidentified From the City's own agriculture page, citing the 2022 AgRefresh review: "Abbotsford is the largest municipality in BC with a total area of 389 km2. Approximately 72% of the land is located within the Agricultural Land Reserve"; "Total gross farm receipts in 2015 amounted to over $853,000,000"; "1,300+ farms were reported to be in operation in 2015"; "Over 7,000 people were reported to be employed on farms in 2011"; "29% jobs in Abbotsford are agricultural-related"; "55% of table eggs produced in BC come from Abbotsford"; "45% of chicken produced in BC come from Abbotsford"; "Of the 27,413 ha of ALR land in Abbotsford, 17,213 (63%) is actively farmed (2012)"; top crops by acreage forage 47%, berries 28%, pasture 18%, vegetables 8%; "Over 2,900 ha are dedicated to blueberry production. Another 1,154 ha are used in the cultivation of raspberries"; and "Produces 40% of all milk produced in the Lower Mainland". The dates inside those statements are 2011, 2012 and 2015 even though the review is dated 2022. The province's own boundary layer gives Abbotsford 38,926.7 ha, which agrees with 389 km2; the "largest municipality in BC" characterisation is the City's and is left as its claim. No individual farm owner is named in this record. |
Private company | 27,413 ha of ALR, 17,213 ha of it actively farmed; 1,300+ farms; $853M+ of gross farm receiptsA |
| Private owners, unidentified ParcelMap BC's Private class for Abbotsford. The layer records owner class and not owner name; no open BC dataset names the owner of a parcel; and the one register that would, the land title register, costs $11.06 a title with no bulk product. This figure is simultaneously the measure of how much of Abbotsford is privately held and of how much of it is unattributable. Derived aggregate only. |
Private company | 30,446.3 ha across 29,837 parcels — 83.9% of the city's titled surface areaA |
| City of Abbotsford ParcelMap BC's Local Government count, and the largest single titled parcel in the city (441.7 ha) is one of them. The City's own accounts carry land at $489 million net book value, the largest of its asset categories, and it has owned the Abbotsford International Airport outright since 1 January 1997, bought from Transport Canada for ten dollars with a ten-dollar reversion if it ever stops operating it. In 2025 the City applied to the Agricultural Land Commission for lands, reached an agreement with Metro Vancouver to amend parkland interests, and reported facilitating permitted parking on non-ALR land along the Fraser Highway corridor. |
Government | 1,616 parcels, 2,875.4 ha — 7.9% of the titled area — $489M of land, plus the international airportA |
| BC Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Abbotsford's Permissive Tax Exemption (2026) Bylaw, 3686-2025, adopted 21 October 2025, lists each exempt property by folio number and civic address. The Conference holds twelve, including 2311 Clearbrook Road and 31980 Oak Avenue, several of them exempted as "Land" rather than land and improvements. The bylaw's own definitions make ownership or holding the test for exemption in every class. |
Institution | 12 exempt folios — more than any other entity on the City's 2026 exemption bylawA |
| Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society, Supportive Care Holdings Society and Communitas Supportive Care Society The housing and supportive-care holdings the City exempts: Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society on ten folios, nine of them units at 2740 Fuller Street; Supportive Care Holdings Society on eight, most at 2776 Bourquin Crescent West; Communitas Supportive Care Society on seven, including 30772 Osprey Drive West and 32885 Ashley Way. All exempted as land and improvements under the not-for-profit class of Bylaw 3686-2025. |
Institution | 25 exempt folios between themA |
| Bethesda Christian Association, Archway Community Services and the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford Bethesda Christian Association on eight folios, Archway Community Services on five and the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford on four, all on Bylaw 3686-2025. The bylaw also names the L.I.F.E Recovery entries (3), the MSA Society (3), Bradner Community (3), Clayburn Village (3) and Fraser Valley entries (3), plus 182 named entries in all across 185 folios. |
Institution | 17 exempt folios between themA |
| Provincial Crown and Crown agencies (unnamed in the layer) ParcelMap BC: Untitled Provincial 1,644.8 ha in 74 parcels, Crown Provincial 295.5 ha in 135, Crown Agency 247.7 ha in 176. The University of the Fraser Valley and the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre are the institutions known to be in the city and nothing is attributed to either. The second and third largest titled parcels in Abbotsford are Untitled Provincial, at 244.6 ha and 242.6 ha. |
Government | 2,188.0 ha across 385 parcels — 6.0% of the titled surface areaA |
| Federal holders (unnamed in the layer) ParcelMap BC's Federal class: the smallest parcel count of any owner class in Abbotsford and one of the largest average parcel sizes, including a 219.4 ha parcel that is the city's fourth-largest titled parcel. The layer does not name holders and nothing is attributed. For contrast, the City's airport land is municipal, not federal, and has been since 1997. |
Government | 566.6 ha across just 13 parcels — 1.6% of the titled areaA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Abbotsford issued 958 building permits in 2025 for 1,728 housing units and $584.6 million of construction value, and approved development applications for a further 1,451 units — a permit count that has fallen every year since 1,811 in 2020. The City's seven-year series and its own narrative are the figures of record. Who builds the homes is answerable only partly: British Columbia publishes no homes-per-builder table, BC Housing's licence registry carries no unit counts, and only a handful of Fraser Valley builders publish their own output. A By-City search for Abbotsford returns 460 licences in good standing out of 8,022 province-wide, 441 of them held by companies or under trade names; licences held by named individuals are not listed here. The builders below are those with a stated figure, then the longest-standing of the Abbotsford roster by licence number.
| Name | Type | Stated figure |
|---|---|---|
| Qualico Developments (Vancouver) Inc. Qualico's own site: "Established in Winnipeg in 1951", "Celebrating 75 years of delivering award-winning communities, homes and customer experiences", "based in eight cities with over 2,700 employees across North America", with single-family and multi-family homes, community and commercial development, building materials supply, build-to-sell projects and property management. Licence 20079 is the lowest number returned by a By-City search for Abbotsford, and also for Langley. No homes-per-year figure is published. |
Family / private | Licence 20079 — the lowest-numbered licence in the Abbotsford register; 75 years old, 2,700+ employeesA |
| Algra Bros Developments Ltd. A Chilliwack-based builder that is one of the more visible in east Abbotsford. On its own site: Timberlane is "single-family homes on Sumas Mountain in East Abbotsford" with Phase II now available, and "Aston Row's two home designs capture the flavour of historic urban rowhomes… Located in Abbotsford's fast growing Midtown district", 46 rowhomes, awarded "Best Multi-Family Townhouse Development of 2016" by the Canadian Home Builders' Association of Fraser Valley. No cumulative unit total is published. |
Family / private | Timberlane Phase II on Sumas Mountain and Aston Row, 46 rowhomes in MidtownA |
| Rattan Construction Ltd. Second-lowest licence number on the Abbotsford By-City list, and on the Langley list too. BC Housing Licence Registry, October 2026. |
Private company | Licence 20112, in good standing — listed in both Abbotsford and LangleyA |
| E. Schmidt Construction Ltd. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Abbotsford, October 2026. |
Private company | Licence 20554, in good standingA |
| Mierau Contractors Ltd. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Abbotsford, October 2026. |
Private company | Licence 21632, in good standingA |
| Mountain West Construction Ltd. Appears on both the Abbotsford and the Chilliwack By-City searches, so licensed across the Fraser Valley rather than in one town. BC Housing Licence Registry, October 2026. |
Private company | Licence 21745, in good standing — listed in both Abbotsford and ChilliwackA |
| Whitehills Construction Inc. and Sivia Construction Ltd. Two more of the longest-standing Abbotsford licences. BC Housing Licence Registry, October 2026. The register gives licence numbers and status and no unit counts; no Abbotsford builder's output is published by any source opened. |
Private company | Licences 21937 and 22138, in good standingA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Abbotsford has $8.85 billion of business-and-other assessment and $2.32 billion of light industry, and exactly one large commercial asset with a documented owner: Sevenoaks Shopping Centre, which the Richmond developer Dava Developments Ltd. carries in its own portfolio and Morguard Investments Limited manages. High Street's former website now sells handbags; the Fraser Valley's industrial landlords publish nothing that opened; and the City, which does publish, is a landlord mainly of civic and airport property. One thing worth noting about the structure: Abbotsford has no major-industry assessment at all — zero on the 2026 roll — which makes its $2.32 billion light-industry class, the seventh-largest in BC, the whole of its industrial base.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Dava Developments Ltd. Sevenoaks Shopping Centre, 32900 South Fraser Way, listed in Dava's own portfolio as a "Major Shopping Centre (Investment)". Morguard's leasing site gives 574,250 sq ft on 35 acres, 5 million shoppers a year, 48% of primary consumers visiting 5 to 20 times a month at an average household income of $143,270, and names Morguard Investments Limited as building management. The centre opened on 15 October 1975 with Woodward's, Eaton's and 40 other retailers. |
Private company | 568,317 sq ft leasable on 35 acresB |
| Morguard Investments Limited Named as "Building Management" on Morguard's own retail leasing page for Sevenoaks, with a named director of retail leasing and a named general manager on site. Management is not ownership and is recorded here as management. Morguard's retail leasing site has no page for any other asset in this batch of five cities: the /building/ URLs for Pine Centre, Parkwood Place, Cottonwood Centre and Willowbrook all return "Sorry, the property you're looking for cannot be found". |
Private company | Building management of 574,250 sq ft at SevenoaksA |
| City of Abbotsford The City is the only Abbotsford landlord whose whole estate is accounted for in public, and the airport is the unusual part: a municipality owning and operating an international airport it bought for ten dollars, turning over $10.1 million a year and handling 1,026,000 passengers in 2025. The City also launched an aerospace and technology cluster at the airport. |
Government | $133M of buildings and $489M of land, plus an international airportA |
| Commercial and industrial owners, unidentified The class totals are public; the owners are not. Beyond Sevenoaks, no document opened names the owner of a single privately held commercial or industrial building in Abbotsford — including High Street Shopping Centre, whose former domain now serves an unrelated retail shop. BC Assessment's values may not be reused commercially. A title search at $11.06, or a $105.26 tax certificate, is the only route. |
Private company | $8,846,367,155 of business and other plus $2,322,608,751 of light industry on the 2026 rollA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who owns any Abbotsford farm. This is the biggest single gap in the record and it is structural: the Agricultural Land Reserve is a zoning designation administered by the Agricultural Land Commission, farm class is an assessment classification, and British Columbia publishes no farmland ownership dataset. The City's own figures — 27,413 ha of ALR, 17,213 ha actively farmed, 1,300+ farms, $853 million of gross farm receipts, 55% of BC's table eggs and 45% of its chicken — quantify the holding without naming a single holder, and this record names none.
- The reported $214 million sale price of Sevenoaks Shopping Centre. Both Abbotsford News articles that carry it 302 away to the current news index, so the figure could not be read in a source that opened and is deliberately NOT recorded as a price. What is recorded, from Dava Developments' own portfolio page, is that Dava holds the centre as an investment.
- Who owns High Street Shopping Centre. Its former domain, shophighstreet.com, now serves an unrelated luxury-handbag resale shop and no other source opened names an owner.
- Who owns the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre and the University of the Fraser Valley's Abbotsford campus, and which of ParcelMap BC's 176 Crown Agency and 135 Crown Provincial parcels they occupy. The layer gives owner class and not owner name.
- Which federal body holds Abbotsford's 13 Federal parcels, including the 219.4 ha one that is the city's fourth-largest titled parcel.
- Who owns any part of the $2.32 billion light-industry base — the seventh-largest in BC. No industrial owner in Abbotsford was documented from any source opened.
- Current agricultural statistics. Every figure on the City's agriculture page is drawn from the 2022 AgRefresh review but dated 2011, 2012 or 2015 inside the text, and the AgRefresh document itself is not linked from that page — only the 2011 Agriculture Strategy is.
- Units built per builder in Abbotsford. No league table exists; the 460 licences in good standing are a roster, not a ranking.
- Whether any Abbotsford officeholder holds property relevant to their office. Nothing is recorded because nothing was found: no conflict-of-interest or financial-disclosure registry entry was opened, and no member of Council appears on the permissive exemption bylaw.
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Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing (fees as at April 1, 2026), the Land Owner Transparency Act fee schedule and the Tax Certificates Online participating-municipality table (Abbotsford, City $105.26) — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filings required from 30 November 2020; "Search of information in LOTR began" 30 April 2021 — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment homepage, terms of use and copyright notice — BC Assessment · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026 (162 municipalities; BC farm-class total $582,908,970) — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file ("313 - City of Abbotsford") — BC Ministry of Finance · openA
- ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (PMBC_PARCEL_FABRIC_POLY_SVW) — active parcels by OWNER_TYPE and PARCEL_CLASS for "Abbotsford, City of", extracted October 2026 by paging a BBOX query in EPSG:3005 and filtering on MUNICIPALITY; building strata, air space and interest parcels excluded from area arithmetic. Derived aggregates only, no rows reproduced — Province of British Columbia (openmaps WFS) · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP): City of Abbotsford 38,926.7 ha — Province of British Columbia (openmaps WFS) · openA
- BC Housing Licence Registry — residential builder licences in good standing, By-City search for Abbotsford (460 of 8,022 province-wide) — BC Housing, Licensing & Consumer Services · openA
- City of Abbotsford 2025 Annual Report — audited consolidated financial statements including the Abbotsford International Airport note ("acquired… from Transport Canada on January 1, 1997, for the nominal cost of ten dollars") and the Agricultural Land Commission permit MM-36161 note, the Airport Operating Fund schedule, the tangible-capital-asset category table, and the seven-year statistical series on assessment, permits, passengers and employees — City of Abbotsford · openA
- Sevenoaks Shopping Centre — Dava Developments' own portfolio entry ("Major Shopping Centre (Investment)", leasable area 568,317 sq ft, 32900 S Fraser Way); and Morguard's retail leasing page for the same centre (574,250 sq ft on 35 acres, "Building Management Morguard Investments Limited"); and the Abbotsford News 50th-anniversary report (opened 15 October 1975 with Woodward's, Eaton's and 40 other retailers) — Dava Developments Ltd.; Morguard; Abbotsford News · openA
- Permissive Tax Exemption (2026) Bylaw, 3686-2025, adopted and signed 21 October 2025 — 182 named entries across 185 folio numbers in five classes, each with folio number, civic address and the extent of the exemption, plus the bylaw's definitions of local authority, not for profit, athletic or service club, place of worship and independent school property — City of Abbotsford · openA
- Agriculture — the City's agriculture statistics from the 2022 AgRefresh review: 389 km2, approximately 72% in the ALR, $853,000,000+ of gross farm receipts (2015), 1,300+ farms (2015), 7,000+ farm employees (2011), 29% of jobs agriculture-related, 55% of BC table eggs, 45% of BC chicken, 27,413 ha of ALR with 17,213 ha (63%) actively farmed (2012), 2,900+ ha of blueberries and 1,154 ha of raspberries, 40% of Lower Mainland milk — City of Abbotsford · openA
- Qualico corporate homepage — "Established in Winnipeg in 1951", "Celebrating 75 years", "based in eight cities with over 2,700 employees across North America" — Qualico · openA
- About / what we've built — Timberlane and Timberlane II on Sumas Mountain in East Abbotsford, Aston Row (46 rowhomes, Midtown), District 1881 in downtown Chilliwack and Brixton Station in Garrison Crossing — Algra Bros Developments Ltd. · openA
- Open Government Licence – British Columbia: "a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes" — Province of British Columbia · openA
- "Abbotsford's Sevenoaks Shopping Centre celebrating 50 years on Oct. 15" — opened 15 October 1975 with Woodward's, Eaton's and 40 other retailers; original council discussions began 1972; the 1991 water clock has stood at Abbotsford International Airport since 2000 — Abbotsford News · openA