Parksville, British Columbia
A retirement and resort town of 13,642 on a $6.18 billion roll — 89% of it houses — where the single largest property tax exemption in the city goes to a land trust: The Nature Trust of BC holds 200 Corfield Street, on which $151,969.42 of 2025 taxes were exempted, more than three times the next entry. Parksville's other named landholders are a federally registered charity that owns the old E&N rail corridor, a City that carries $60.6 million of land at cost, and the company behind Wembley Mall. The town registered 379 purpose-built rental homes in 2024 — ten times its single-detached count.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 20 sources · 7 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Ownership in Parksville is public but priced. British Columbia's land title register is run by the Land Title and Survey Authority and anyone may search it, but every search is a paid transaction: the LTSA Customer Fee Listing current at 1 April 2026 prices a title search at $11.06. There is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file; the province publishes only monthly counts and aggregate fair market value by municipality. The free half of the system is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filings required from 30 November 2020, search open since 30 April 2021, the deadline for pre-existing interests 30 November 2022 — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships holding BC land; a search under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. It is used here to establish which entity holds an asset, never as a source of names to publish. Parksville appears on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table at $105.26. The City fills part of the gap itself: its annual report publishes a Permissive Tax Exemption Statement under section 98 of the Community Charter giving the legal description, civic address, organisation and dollar value of every exempt parcel, which names a land trust, a rail charity and several housing societies against specific addresses. It also publishes audited statements with land at historical cost, and its rezoning files carry commissioned land appraisals. What it does not publish, and nobody does, is who owns the strata resorts that are the town's commercial core.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 per title search (LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at April 1, 2026). A search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. On LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table, fees as at April 1, 2026, Parksville, City is $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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 Corfield Street — Englishman River estuary conservation land 200 Corfield Street |
Land | The Nature Trust of British Columbia The City's 2025 Permissive Tax Exemption Statement, published under section 98(2)(b) of the Community Charter, lists Lot 1, Plan VIP5560 at 200 Corfield Street against "The Nature Trust of BC", with total taxes of $151,969.42 and a municipal portion of $82,719.82 — by far the largest single exemption in the city, under a dedicated Environment heading and its own bylaw, Permissive Taxation Exemption Bylaw 2023-2032 No. 1588. The whole programme came to $618,548 of total taxes, so this one parcel is a quarter of it. The Nature Trust's own site states "NTBC purchases land to protect it forever" and claims 185,163 acres protected province-wide. |
Institution | —A |
| The former E&N rail corridor through Parksville 600 Alberni Highway and adjoining rail parcels |
Land | Island Corridor Foundation The City's exemption statement carries a "Rail / Track Property" heading under Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw 2021-2031 No. 1575, listing five titles — among them Lot A DL 16 Plan VIP65788, Lot A Block 1495 Plan VIP64448 and Lot A DL 40 Plan VIP59337 — described as bisecting Ermineskin ALR land, the part in the City of Parksville, the Herring Gull portion to the highway scale and the portion behind the works yard, against "Island Corridor Foundation", $30,624.25 of total taxes. The Foundation's own site states it is "a federally registered charity established for the purposes of owning and managing the former E&N Corridor on Vancouver Island". |
Institution | —A |
| Wembley Mall 806 Island Highway West about 92,500 sq m of remaining mall parcel |
Retail | Parksville Properties Corp. The City of Parksville's rezoning application file for Wembley Mall, dated 25 May 2023, states that "Parksville Properties Corp. proposes to increase the total allowable density and building height at a proposed new subdivided lot", that the application maintains CD-12A zoning for "the remaining Wembley mall parcel of approximately 92,500 square metres", and that the same company "previously provided Island Highway streetlights, Wembley Road streetlights and Wembley Road sidewalks" and built "the new Save-on Foods, the Canadian Time, the new BC Liquor Store and the Mall Exterior and Interior renovations". The file identifies the applicant, not the registered owner, and no title was searched. |
Private company | —B |
| Parksville Community Park 193 Island Highway East |
Civic | City of Parksville The City's 2025 annual report treats the park as its own throughout: the relocation of the sandcastle area "within Parksville Community Park at 193 Island Highway East", the phased renewal of the waterfront walkway, the decommissioning of a failing concrete beach access ramp, a new multi-sport lacrosse box, accessible parking in the Community Park gravel lot, and rainfall monitoring from the Community Park. The same address appears in the exemption statement as Parcel B, where the Parksville Curling Club Society holds an exemption worth $9,882.81 — a club building on City park land. The City carries $60,561,363 of land at cost. |
Government | —A |
| 132 Jensen Avenue East — Boys and Girls Club premises on City land 132 Jensen Avenue East |
Institutional | City of Parksville The exemption statement lists a "Leased Portion of Lot A, DL 13, Plan VIP88727" at 132 Jensen Avenue East against the Boys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver Island, $102,053.99 of total taxes and $48,474.73 of municipal taxes — the second-largest exemption in the city — and a second leased portion of Lot A, DL 13, Plan VIP80685 on Craig Street for the same organisation. A leased portion of a City lot is City land; the tenant is named and the landlord is the municipality. |
Government | —A |
| Oceanside RCMP Detachment 421 Pym Street North 794 sq m in 2 buildings on 0.5666 ha |
Institutional | Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Directory of Federal Real Property records property 17654, "Oceanside Detachment (at Parksville) Site", custodian Royal Canadian Mounted Police, interest type Crown Owned: two buildings totalling 794 square metres on 0.5666 hectares. The RCMP separately holds a Lease or Licence over a 0.0569-hectare vacant site next door at 421 Pym St, Lot 2, District Lot 74 21355. This detachment is the only federal freehold inside the city. |
Government | —A |
| Parksville Post Office 251 East Island Highway 432 sq m on 0.4014 ha |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal register records property 63004, custodian Canada Post, interest type Lease or Licence: one building of 432 square metres on 0.4014 hectares — Canada Post occupies the Parksville post office, it does not own it. The nearby Qualicum Beach Post Office at 675 Primrose Street is Crown Owned, but that is in the Town of Qualicum Beach, not Parksville. Public Services and Procurement Canada also leases a 445-square-metre office at 457 Standford Avenue East. The register names the tenant and never the landlord, and no source opened here names either. |
Not established | —A |
| Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort 1155 Resort Drive 192 units |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it The regional destination organisation's own directory entry states Tigh-Na-Mara "is a strata-operated resort comprising 192 units in a variety of log buildings. While it is a strata operation, all units are committed to the hotel operation and owners are not permitted to make any 'personal touches'", and records a renovation programme of more than $20 million on the Texada, Ballenas and Gabriola oceanfront buildings. A strata-operated resort has as many owners as it has strata lots, so there is no single owning entity to name, and the strata corporation and its lot owners are not published here. This is the pattern across Parksville's resort strip. |
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.
Parksville is the richest roll in this batch and the least industrial: $6.18 billion, 89% residential, no major industry and no farm class at all. Two numbers explain the town. The first is the exemption statement, where a land trust and a rail charity hold the two most valuable exempt parcels. The second is new-home registrations: 379 purpose-built rental homes in 2024 against 39 single-detached, in a city of 13,642 — the signature of a retirement market building seniors' rental rather than subdivisions.
City total assessed value, 2026 roll$6.18B
$6,176,175,176 for general municipal purposes: residential $5,506,279,500; business and other $623,067,276; recreation and non-profit $29,474,200; light industry $15,740,000; utilities $1,614,200; major industry nil; farm nil; managed forest land nil. BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Local Government Statistics Schedule 701 — Assessed Values for the year 2026. The highest assessment base of the five towns in this batch, on the second-smallest land area.
City's own land, at cost$60,561,363
The land line of Schedule 1 — Tangible Capital Assets in the City's audited 2025 financial statements, up from $60,038,725 at the start of the year, within $215,873,211 of net tangible capital assets and $283,763,146 of accumulated surplus at 31 December 2025. Land is not amortized, so this is the full carrying value. Historical cost, not market value; $2,587,052 of work in progress is unamortized and $1,969,762 of assets were contributed by developers during the year.
Permissive tax exemptions, 2025$618,548 total taxes ($314,897 municipal)
The City's Permissive Tax Exemption Statement under Bylaw No. 1593, published in the 2025 annual report with legal description, civic address and organisation for every parcel. Largest: The Nature Trust of BC at 200 Corfield Street, $151,969.42; Boys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver Island on a leased portion of City land at 132 Jensen Avenue East, $102,053.99; Arrowsmith Rest Home Society at 266B Moilliet Street South, $45,060.10; District 69 Society of Organized Services at 188 Hirst Avenue West, $34,395.68; Island Corridor Foundation's rail parcels, $30,624.25.
Appraised land value, 806 Island Highway West$2,370,000 as zoned; $3,160,000 rezoned
The rezoning application file for Wembley Mall, dated 25 May 2023, states: "Grover Elliott Real Estate Appraisers & Advisors have provided an appraisal analysis of the land. The land value As-is with the current zoning was valued at $2,370,000. The land value following the proposed rezoning was valued at $3,160,000." A stated appraisal of an undeveloped portion of the mall site, not a sale price.
Whole-city turnover, 2025434 sales, $313.5M
434 market transactions in the City of Parksville across 2025 — 376 residential, 58 commercial — with total fair market value of $313,479,226 and $4,598,882 of property transfer tax paid, the busiest and most valuable market of the five. BC Ministry of Finance property transfer tax data 2025, municipal monthly file; the corporate-transaction count is suppressed as 'nr' in 9 of 12 months. Strata dwellings are about a third of the residential sales.
City area, and why the population figures differ1,752 ha (1,440 ha land); 13,642 people
Schedule 201 — General Statistics for 2024 gives Parksville 1,440 ha of land and 312 ha of water; the province's boundary layer independently returns 1,752.2 ha. 2021 Census population 13,642; BC Stats estimate 14,710. A registry figure near 28,922 is the Oceanside area — Parksville plus Qualicum Beach and the surrounding electoral areas — not the city, which is why federal rows for Qualicum Beach and French Creek appear under a Parksville metro label and are excluded here.
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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.
Parksville is where the forest-tenure rule returns the Courtenay answer rather than the Campbell River one. Tree Farm Licence 44 — 137,618 hectares, licensee Tsawak-Qin Forestry Inc. — reaches a box from 49.15N to 49.5N and 124.7W to 124.1W around Parksville, but the province's Tree Farm Licence Schedule A layer, the layer that maps land a licence holder actually owns, returns no features at all inside that box. On this evidence no forest company is a Parksville landowner. There is also no managed forest land on the city roll. What the record does name is a land trust and a rail charity.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| The Nature Trust of British Columbia The City's own exemption statement names The Nature Trust of BC as the organisation holding Lot 1, Plan VIP5560 at 200 Corfield Street, the single largest exemption in the city at $151,969.42 of total taxes — a quarter of the whole programme. The Trust's own site states "NTBC purchases land to protect it forever" and claims 185,163 acres protected across British Columbia; it does not publish a Parksville acreage, and none is asserted. |
Institution | 200 Corfield Street; 185,163 acres protected province-wideB |
| City of Parksville Schedule 1 of the audited 2025 financial statements, within $215,873,211 of net tangible capital assets. Land is not amortized. During 2025 developers contributed $1,969,762 of assets "including land under roads". |
Government | $60,561,363 of land at costA |
| Island Corridor Foundation A federally registered charity that owns the former E&N corridor, named as such on its own site and as the holder of five Parksville rail titles in the City's exemption statement. |
Institution | five rail titles through the cityA |
| Crown in right of Canada Directory of Federal Real Property: the Oceanside RCMP detachment at 421 Pym Street North, two buildings and 794 square metres, Crown Owned. Three other federal rows inside the city are leases. The much larger federal holdings that appear under a Parksville metro label — Fisheries and Oceans Canada's French Creek harbour (24.77 ha), the Little Qualicum Spawning Channel (79.06 ha) and Environment and Climate Change Canada's Qualicum National Wildlife Area Marshall-Stevenson Unit (29.70 ha) — are in Nanaimo Electoral Area G and Qualicum Beach, not in the City of Parksville, and are excluded. |
Government | 0.5666 ha inside the cityA |
| Forest licensees (no freehold established) A licence over Crown timber is not freehold. TFL 44, 137,618.2 ha, licensee Tsawak-Qin Forestry Inc., reaches the Parksville box, but the Schedule A layer returns no features inside it, so no forest company is recorded as a Parksville landowner. The large private forest holdings of eastern Vancouver Island — the legacy of the E&N land grant — are private managed forest land outside the municipal boundary rather than tree farm licence Schedule A land, and no hectare figure is attributed to any company here. |
Public company | 0 ha of licensee-owned land in the Parksville boxA |
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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.
Parksville builds rental at a rate out of all proportion to its size. BC Housing's New Homes Registry records 379 purpose-built rental homes registered in 2024 and 328 in 2023, against 39 and 19 single-detached — a retirement market where the product is a suite, not a lot. The City's own count for 2025 is 81 building permits worth $72,232,719 and 217 new units, of which 184 came from seven multi-family permits; BC Stats independently records 214 units. Sixty-nine companies hold a residential builder licence at a Parksville address.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Sixty-nine licensed residential builders with Parksville addresses BC Housing's Public Registry of Licensed Residential Builders, filtered to Parksville, returns 69 licensees in good standing — the largest count of the five towns in this batch — among them B. Gallant Homes Ltd., Ballard Fine Homes Ltd., Bayshore Construction Inc., Carey Development Ltd., Copper Ridge Homes Ltd., Island West Coast Developments Ltd., JDI Homes Ltd., Millcreek Homes Ltd, North Winds Developments Ltd., Radcliffe Development Corporation, Richardson Homes Ltd., Riverbend Parksville Homes Inc., Streamside Homes Inc., T.S. Williams Construction Ltd., Trafalgar Homes Ltd. and V.I Camelot Homes Ltd. The registry gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built, and no unit counts; individual licensees are not named here. |
Private company | 69 licences in good standingA |
| New-home registrations, all builders BC Housing's New Homes Registry records purpose-built rental registrations in Parksville of 55, 137, 282, 134, 87, 130, 328 and 379 across 2017 to 2024; single-detached registrations of 159, 116, 84, 79, 59, 104, 62, 19 and 39 across 2016 to 2024; and multi-unit registrations of 47 in 2018, 11 in 2020, 42 in 2021, 175 in 2022, 20 in 2023 and 34 in 2024. The dataset is licensed Access Only, so only these stated per-city figures are quoted and no rows are reproduced. |
Private company | 379 purpose-built rental + 39 single detached + 34 multi-unit, 2024A |
| Residential building permits, all builders The City's own 2025 annual report states that "81 building permits were issued with a total construction value of $72,232,719", of which 12 were single-family dwellings, seven multi-family permits produced 184 units, three duplex permits produced 10 units and secondary-suite and second-dwelling permits added six, for "217 new units in total for 2025". BC Stats' Building Permits series independently records 214 residential units for Parksville (CSD 5921018) in 2025 and 306 in 2024, with residential permit value of $51.965 million in 2025 and $88.025 million in 2024. |
Private company | 217 units on 81 permits, $72.2M, 2025A |
| Subdivision activity, 2025 The City's 2025 annual report lists each subdivision application by address: two-lot splits at 360, 364 and 368 Moilliet Street South and at 1465 Greig Road, a five-lot subdivision at 634 Blenkin Avenue, a two-lot subdivision at 450 Stanford Avenue East and a four-lot subdivision at 133 Shelly Road. Named applicants are not published in the report, and none is named here. |
Private company | 5 applications, 14 new lotsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Business and other is $623.1 million, 10% of the roll, and 58 commercial transactions completed in 2025 — most of them strata, which is the point. Parksville's commercial core is a shopping centre and a line of resort properties held as stratas, so the number of distinct owners is large and the number of nameable ones is small. The named entries below are the four whose holdings a City document or the entity's own statement identifies.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Parksville Properties Corp. The City's rezoning application file names Parksville Properties Corp. as the party proposing a comprehensive development zone at 806 Island Highway West, as having built the Save-On-Foods, BC Liquor Store and mall renovations, and as having provided the Island Highway and Wembley Road streetlights and sidewalks. An appraisal in the same file values the undeveloped portion at $2,370,000 as zoned and $3,160,000 rezoned. The file identifies the applicant rather than the registered owner. |
Private company | Wembley Mall, about 92,500 sq m of mall parcel plus 806 Island Highway WestB |
| City of Parksville Audited 2025 financial statements and 2025 annual report. The City owns the Parksville Community Park at 193 Island Highway East, the Parksville Civic and Technology Centre, the operations yard, and the lots on Craig Street and at 132 Jensen Avenue East on which the Boys and Girls Club holds leases. Its principal parks, linear parks and recreation facilities are listed in the report. |
Government | $60,561,363 of land at cost; the Community Park and the Civic and Technology CentreA |
| Island Corridor Foundation Its own site states it is a federally registered charity "established for the purposes of owning and managing the former E&N Corridor on Vancouver Island" and that it "represents First Nations and Local Governments adjacent to the corridor". The City's exemption statement lists the five titles it holds through Parksville under a dedicated Rail / Track Property heading. |
Institution | five rail titles through the city, $30,624.25 of exempt taxesA |
| Strata corporations (resort strip) The destination organisation's directory entry describes Tigh-Na-Mara as "a strata-operated resort comprising 192 units" where "all units are committed to the hotel operation". Where a resort is a strata, the owners are the strata lot holders and there is no single owning entity to name; a third of Parksville's 376 residential transactions in 2025 were strata, as were 58 of its commercial ones. No strata owner is published here. |
Private company | 192 units at Tigh-Na-Mara aloneA |
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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 holds registered title to Wembley Mall. The City's rezoning file names Parksville Properties Corp. as the applicant and as the builder of the previous mall redevelopment; it does not state the registered owner, and no title was searched.
- How much land The Nature Trust of BC holds in Parksville. The City publishes the organisation name, the legal description of one lot and the tax exempted; the Trust publishes a province-wide acreage and no local figure.
- Who owns Parksville's resorts. Tigh-Na-Mara is described by the regional destination organisation as strata-operated with 192 units, which means many owners and no single entity; the Beach Club and the rest of the Resort Drive strip were not established, and no strata lot owner is published here.
- Who owns the three buildings Canada leases in Parksville, including the post office at 251 East Island Highway and the federal office at 457 Standford Avenue East.
- Parksville's largest taxpayers. Unlike Terrace and Campbell River, the City publishes no principal-taxpayer table — only the permissive exemption statement, which by definition lists the parcels that pay nothing.
- Who owns Oceanside Health Centre. No Island Health document was opened in this pass and no claim is made.
- The registry population of 28,922 for Parksville is the Oceanside area, not the city, whose 2021 Census population is 13,642. That is a difference of definition, not an error to correct.
- No open dataset names the owner of any BC parcel. ParcelMap BC's public extract is geometry plus PID; the fully attributed variant is licensed to government only; BC Assessment's full roll is 'named users' only and its site forbids commercial use of the values.
- BC publishes no price-paid file. Property transfer tax data is monthly counts and aggregate fair market value by municipality, with small counts suppressed — in Parksville the corporate-transaction count was suppressed in 9 of 12 months of 2025.
- LOTR covers only land held through corporations, trusts and partnerships. Land held directly by an individual is out of scope, and nothing from LOTR is published here.
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Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, and Tax Certificates Online participating-municipality table — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — 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 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file — BC Ministry of Finance / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full open-data extract (dfrp-rbif.zip) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- BC Address Geocoder — addresses.json — GeoBC / Province of British Columbia · openA
- Building Permits (BPER) — Residential Total Units and Residential Value, monthly, by census subdivision — BC Stats / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- New Homes Registry (2016-2024) — new home registrations by community and home type — BC Housing / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Public Registry of Licensed Residential Builders — licence search by city — BC Housing, Licensing and Consumer Services · openA
- 2025 Annual Report — Permissive Tax Exemption Statement under Bylaw No. 1593, s.98(2)(b) Community Charter — City of Parksville · openA
- Rezoning Application Summary — Wembley Mall Proposed Re-Zoning, 806 Island Highway West, 25 May 2023 — City of Parksville · openA
- 2025 Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements, Year Ended December 31, 2025 (audited) — City of Parksville · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — Parksville rows (properties 17654, 30742, 63004, 53183) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort and Conference Centre — directory listing — Visit Parksville Qualicum Beach · openA
- About Us — Who we Are — Island Corridor Foundation · openA
- FADM — Tree Farm License Current View (FADM_TFL_ALL_SP) and Tree Farm License Schedule A (FADM_TFL_SCHED_A), WFS — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia — homepage statement of purpose — The Nature Trust of British Columbia · openA