Penticton, British Columbia
Penticton is a city of 37,943 between two lakes with a $12.3 billion roll, and the clearest thing in its public record is how much of the town the City itself owns the ground under: $57.1 million of land at cost, 116 leases and licences to use across 23 sites, and five long leases under which the casino, the golf clubhouse, the art gallery, the seniors' centre and a daycare all revert to the City as buildings when the leases end.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 19 sources · 6 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-09-27
British Columbia's land title register is open to anyone but priced per search: $11.06 for a title search under section 377 of the Land Title Act on the schedule current at 1 April 2026, with no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The free part is the Land Owner Transparency Registry, which since 30 November 2020 has required a transparency declaration on every new registration and a transparency report from corporations, trusts and partnerships naming the individuals behind them; a search of the publicly accessible part is priced NIL. Penticton adds something most BC municipalities do not: its annual report publishes its own tangible capital assets, its full list of permissive tax exemptions property by property, and a contractual-rights note that names the tenants on its long land leases — so the City's own holdings are unusually well documented even though nobody else's are. BC Assessment's site forbids commercial use of its values and no open dataset names the owner of a BC parcel, so private ownership in the town still has to be bought a title at a time.
- 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.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Okanagan Events Centre 853 Eckhardt Avenue West, Penticton V2A 9C4 |
Civic | City of Penticton The City's own page describes the SOEC as "a 5,000-seat arena that hosts everything from world-class concerts and major stadium events to hockey games" with "two sheets of ice, including the OHS Training Centre", home to the Penticton Vees and the Okanagan Hockey Academy, and publishes it among the City's Civic Spaces and Places with the City's own phone number. The organisation chart in the City's 2025 Annual Report carries the footnote "**Managed under contract by OVG 360" against its venue operations. So: municipal asset, contracted operator. The page states operation and stewardship, not registered title. |
Government | —A |
| Cascades Casino building (on City land, leased to Gateway Casinos) No civic address stated in the source |
Civic | City of Penticton (land); Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited built and occupies the building Note 21, Contractual Rights, in the City's audited 2025 consolidated financial statements: "The Lease Agreement between The City of Penticton and Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited dated May 4, 2016, will result in the City gaining control of the Casino Building upon expiry of the lease. The Lease Agreement grants the right of ownership of the Casino Building to the City. This is a 20 year Lease, due to expire in 2036 with two 10-year extension options." The note is the City's own audited disclosure that it holds the ground and will hold the building. It gives no address and no rent. |
Government | —A |
| Penticton Art Gallery 199 Marina Way, Penticton |
Civic | City of Penticton (land, and the building on expiry of the lease) The same contractual-rights note records a lease between the City and the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan (Inc. 9986) dated 1 October 1999 under which "the City gaining control of the Art Gallery Building upon expiry of the lease"; the 5-year lease expired in 2025 and "the parties are currently working toward a further 5 year renewal." The City's 2025 permissive tax exemption schedule lists Penticton Art Gallery at 199 Marina Way with $27,160 of municipal tax exempted — the third largest single exemption in the city. |
Government | —A |
| Penticton Golf & Country Club clubhouse 600 Comox Street and 852 Eckhardt Avenue West, Penticton |
Civic | City of Penticton (land, and the clubhouse on expiry of the lease) Contractual-rights note: "The Lease Agreement between The City of Penticton and The Penticton Golf & Country Club dated July 1, 2007, will result in the City gaining control of the Golf Clubhouse Building upon expiry of the lease... This is a 26 year, 4 month Lease, due to expire in 2033." The Club holds two permissive tax exemptions in the City's 2025 schedule, at 600 Comox Street ($8,362) and 852 Eckhardt Avenue West ($17,090), $25,452 together. |
Government | —A |
| Penticton Regional Hospital 550 Carmi Avenue, Penticton V2A 3G6 |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it Interior Health's own location record gives the hospital's address as 550 Carmi Avenue, Penticton V2A 3G6 and identifies it as an Interior Health facility, which establishes the operator. BC health-facility title may sit with the health authority, the province or a legacy hospital society; no open dataset names the owner of a BC parcel and no title search was bought. The Okanagan Similkameen Neurological Society also holds a permissive exemption at 103 - 550 Carmi Avenue, so at least part of the site carries separately held strata interests. |
Not established | —A |
| Red Rooster Winery 891 Naramata Road, Penticton |
Industrial | Sandhill Vineyards Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Andrew Peller Limited) The province's active-licence list records licence 300220, Manufacturer / Winery, at 891 Naramata Road, licensee "Sandhill Vineyards Ltd." Andrew Peller Limited's audited statements say its accounts include "Canrim Packaging Limited, Global Vintners Inc., Riverbend Inn & Winery Inc., Sandhill Vineyards Ltd. and Small Winemakers Collections Inc., all of which are wholly owned by Andrew Peller Limited", and its company overview lists Red Rooster among its brands. Two documents together, so tier B. The report gives land and vineyard infrastructure at cost, consolidated across three provinces, and no acreage. |
Public company | —B |
| Laughing Stock Vineyards 1548 Naramata Road, Penticton |
Industrial | Arterra Wines Canada, Inc. / Vins Arterra Canada, Inc. The province's active-licence list names the licensee at 1548 Naramata Road, Manufacturer / Winery, as "Arterra Wines Canada, Inc. Vins Arterra Canada, Inc." — the same licensee as See Ya Later Ranch at Okanagan Falls and Culmina and the main Arterra winery at Oliver. Arterra is the former Constellation Brands Canada: Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced on 17 October 2016 that it had agreed to acquire it "for approximately $1.03 billion (CDN)", a business then running "three commercial wineries, five estate wineries, and 163 Wine Rack stores". No later statement confirming current ownership could be opened, so the chain is dated to 2016. |
Pension fund | CAD $1.03B 2016-10 Price for the whole of Constellation Brands Canada, not for this vineyard; announced 17 October 2016. B |
| Largest private parcel inside the city — PID 002215594 No civic address published; 71.0 ha within the City of Penticton boundary, ParcelMap BC parcel class "Subdivision", no plan number |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it ParcelMap BC classifies this parcel OWNER_TYPE "Private" and gives its area as 710,000 m2 — 71.0 ha, the largest privately classed parcel the layer returns inside the city, in a boundary of 4,734 ha. Two larger parcels exist and neither is private: a 129.4 ha "Untitled Provincial" parcel and a 124.3 ha "Crown Provincial" parcel, both on the hillsides. The layer carries a PID and a geometry and no owner name. Establishing who holds it needs a paid title search; if a corporation, trust or partnership holds it, a free LOTR search would name the interest holders behind it. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Penticton's roll is $12.3 billion and its shape is almost purely residential: $10.4 billion of houses against $1.7 billion of business and other, no major industry at all, and a farm class of $4.4 million on a city where roughly a fifth of the dry land is inside the Agricultural Land Reserve. The City itself is the best documented holder, because it publishes what it owns. Figures are the 2026 provincial assessment roll, the City's own audited statements at 31 December 2025, the province's 2025 property transfer tax file, and our own grid measurement of the Agricultural Land Commission's open ALR layer inside the legal municipal boundary.
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.
Concentration in Penticton runs through three channels, and only one of them is a private company. The City holds $57.1 million of land at cost and the ground under much of the civic core. The province holds the two largest parcels in the city outright. And the largest named non-government property holders in any published record are non-profit housing societies, because the City publishes its permissive tax exemptions unit by unit: 56 strata units at 285 Nanaimo Avenue West on one society's name, 38 at 150 Van Horne Street on another's. Beyond that, private ownership is not published — the parcel layer gives an owner class and never a name, and no source examined names a family or a holding company as a large Penticton landowner. Nothing here is lifted from a title register or an assessment roll, and no individual is named.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| City of Penticton Land at cost of $57,148,557 at 31 December 2025 in the City's own audited statements, within $360,376,406 of net tangible capital assets. ParcelMap BC returns 10 parcels of 5 hectares or more inside the boundary classed OWNER_TYPE "Local Government", totalling 150 hectares, the largest 59.5 ha. The City also holds the ground under five leased buildings that revert to it — the casino to 2036, the golf clubhouse to 2033, the art gallery, the seniors' drop-in centre to 2039 and a daycare to 2081. |
Government | $57,148,557 of land at cost; 150 ha across 10 large parcelsA |
| Province of British Columbia (provincial Crown) ParcelMap BC classes the two largest parcels inside the city boundary as provincial: a 129.4 ha parcel with no PID, class "Primary", OWNER_TYPE "Untitled Provincial", and a 124.3 ha parcel, PID 030503477, OWNER_TYPE "Crown Provincial". Four "Untitled Provincial" parcels total 263 ha and the Crown Provincial parcel adds 124 ha. Together that is more large-parcel land than the City holds. The layer gives a class, not a ministry or an agency. |
Government | 387 ha across 5 large parcels, including the two largest in the cityA |
| OneSky Housing Society and OneSky Community Resources Society The City's 2025 permissive tax exemption schedule lists OneSky Housing Society on 56 separate strata units at 285 Nanaimo Avenue West, exempting $58,998 of municipal tax between them, and OneSky Community Resources Society on 10 further properties — 847 Winnipeg Street, 216 and 470 and 500 Edmonton Avenue, 2434 and 2450 Baskin Street, 150 and 154 McPherson Crescent, 101-208 Ellis Street and 330 Ellis Street — exempting $63,566. Together the two societies account for 66 of the city's 191 exempt properties. A permissive exemption is granted on property the organisation holds; the City's own note 21 also records a 60-year lease of City land to One Sky Community Resources Society for a daycare building, expiring in 2081. |
Institution | 66 exempt properties, $122,564 of municipal taxA |
| Penticton Kiwanis Housing Society Thirty-eight separate strata units at 150 Van Horne Street plus 360 Brunswick Street ($15,326) and 390 Brunswick Street ($5,082), exempting $46,885 of municipal tax in 2025. The second largest named property holder by count in the city's published record. |
Institution | 38 exempt properties, $46,885A |
| Penticton and District Society for Community Living Eight properties in the City's 2025 schedule — 252 Conklin Avenue, 180 Industrial Avenue West, 259 Backstreet Boulevard, 234 Van Horne Street, 1706 Main Street, 453 Winnipeg Street (Chestnut Place), 146 and 150 Bruce Court, and 680 Wade Avenue — exempting $60,631, the largest total after the two OneSky entities. |
Institution | 8 exempt properties, $60,631A |
| Good Samaritan Canada A single property at 270 Hastings Avenue carrying $58,141 of exempted municipal tax — the largest single permissive exemption in the city, and therefore the largest single non-government holding named in any published Penticton record examined. |
Institution | 1 exempt property, $58,141A |
Where property meets office
Recorded only where a public record states it — a disclosure registry, council minutes, a land-use decision. Stated as fact, with nothing inferred from it.
| Holder | Office | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited | Not an office-holder. Recorded because the counterparty is the elected Council: the lease was entered into by the City of Penticton and is disclosed in its audited statements. | A 20-year lease of City land dated 4 May 2016, expiring 2036 with two 10-year extension options, under which the City gains ownership of the casino building at expiry Note 21 of the City's audited 2025 consolidated financial statements states the terms in full. It is recorded here as a factual disclosure of a long-term arrangement between the municipality and a private operator over municipal land, published by the City itself. Nothing here suggests any impropriety, and no elected official is named in connection with it. A |
| City of Penticton | City of Penticton Council (the Mayor and six Councillors, four-year term) | Five long land leases under which buildings revert to the City — the casino to 2036, the Penticton Golf & Country Club clubhouse to 2033, the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan building, the Penticton Seniors' Drop-in Centre building to 2039, and a One Sky Community Resources Society daycare building to 2081 — together with 116 leases and licences to use across 23 sites and 20 Crown leases or licences of occupation All of it is published by the City: note 21 of the audited statements names the five tenants and the lease dates, and the Community Services section of the 2025 Annual Report counts the wider portfolio. The report also records that Council is made up of the Mayor and six Councillors elected to a four-year term, and that one Council term ended in May 2025 on the member's election to the House of Commons. No property holding is attributed to any individual councillor here, because no public record examined attributes one; no councillor is named. A |
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.
Penticton built 469 new housing units in 2025 on $161 million of construction value across 616 permits, and it does this without appearing in any national series: Statistics Canada's publication of CMHC starts covers Kelowna and Vernon among British Columbia geographies and does not publish Penticton at all, so the only reliable count of new homes in the town is the City's own building-permit reporting. There is likewise no builder league table in British Columbia — no equivalent of Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority counts, and BC Housing licenses residential builders without publishing homes per builder — so the one developer named here is named because its own records place it in Penticton, with the figure its records state and no more.
| Name | Type | Units, as the source states them |
|---|---|---|
| City of Penticton (the permit record, not a builder) The City's 2025 Annual Report states "469 new housing units started", "over $161 million in construction value, consistent with the five-year average", "more than 616 building permits processed" and "95 land use and planning applications reviewed". Broken down, 2025 permits were 211 residential, 81 commercial, 9 industrial, 2 institutional, 172 plumbing, 29 demolition and 112 other, with permit fees of $1,504,210; new residential units were "460 (single family), 16 (secondary suites)" and 282 units were proposed in new planning applications. Recorded first because it is the only count of new homes in Penticton published anywhere. |
Government | 469 units started in 2025A |
| Mission Group The Kelowna developer's own site lists two Penticton holdings among its rental and commercial portfolio — 285 Westminster Avenue, described as "Modern rentals in downtown Penticton" and also offered as commercial space, and 1001 Timmins, a "New rental community in Penticton". Its company page describes more than 20 years of work as "a leading developer, builder, and property manager" rooted in Kelowna. No unit count for either Penticton project appears on any page opened; its "By the Numbers" panel is rendered client-side and produced no figures. |
Private company | 2 named Penticton projects; no unit count publishedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Penticton's business-and-other assessment class is worth $1.69 billion, and the largest documented commercial interest in the city is not a landlord at all — it is the City, which holds the ground under the casino, the golf clubhouse, the art gallery, the seniors' centre and a daycare, and runs 116 leases and licences to use across 23 sites. After that the documented holdings are wineries. Forty of the fifty-three manufacturer licences with a Penticton address are wineries, sixteen more than Kelowna has, and two of them belong to national consolidators. Ownership of the downtown commercial core on Main Street and of Cherry Lane Shopping Centre is not published anywhere this record could open; the mall's own domain serves a placeholder page.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| City of Penticton The City's 2025 Annual Report records its land administration portfolio in its own words: "two mobile food vendors in the City's Mobile Vending Program, four concessions, eight residential tenancies, nine beach vendors across 23 sites and 116 leases and licenses to use", plus 20 Crown Leases or Licences of Occupation, 9 Crown statutory rights of way, 55 net-metering agreements, 40 Land Title Office documents registered in the year and one property purchase or land swap. Its audited note 21 names five tenants whose buildings revert to the City at lease end, the longest a 60-year lease to One Sky Community Resources Society for a daycare building dated 1 October 2021 and due to expire in 2081. Land at cost $57,148,557, buildings $73,976,389 net. |
Government | $57.1M of land at cost; 116 leases and licences to use across 23 sitesA |
| Arterra Wines Canada, Inc. Licensee of Laughing Stock Vineyards at 1548 Naramata Road, and of See Ya Later Ranch at Okanagan Falls, Culmina Family Estate Winery at 4790 Wild Rose Street, Oliver, and the Arterra winery and distillery at 38691 97th Street North, Oliver — four Okanagan winery licences plus a distillery and an agent's licence. The business was Constellation Brands Canada until Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced its acquisition for approximately C$1.03 billion on 17 October 2016. Tier B because the 2016 release establishes the buyer and no later filing confirming current ownership could be opened. |
Pension fund | 1 winery licence in Penticton, 4 in the OkanaganB |
| Andrew Peller Limited (through Sandhill Vineyards Ltd.) Sandhill Vineyards Ltd. is the licensee of Red Rooster Winery at 891 Naramata Road, and Andrew Peller Limited's audited consolidated financial statements name Sandhill Vineyards Ltd. among the subsidiaries "all of which are wholly owned by Andrew Peller Limited". Andrew Peller Limited holds four more Okanagan winery licences in its own name — Gray Monk Cellars at Lake Country, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards at Oliver, and two at Black Hills Estate Winery on Black Sage Road — and Canrim Packaging Ltd., another wholly owned subsidiary, holds Sandhill's licence at 1125 Richter Street in Kelowna. Andrew Peller is listed on the TSX, which makes it the only one of the three consolidators whose accounts are public. |
Public company | 1 winery licence in Penticton, 5 in the OkanaganB |
| Time Family of Wines Ltd. Licensee of Time Winery at 361 Martin Street in downtown Penticton and of Evolve Cellars at 245 Lower Bench Road. One of only fifteen licensees in the whole Okanagan and Similkameen holding more than one winery licence; the other 214 of 229 distinct licensees hold exactly one. |
Private company | 2 winery licencesA |
| Poplar Grove Winery Inc. Licensee of Poplar Grove Winery at 425 Middle Bench Road North, of a second Poplar Grove Winery licence at 1010 Tupper Avenue, and of a co-packer licence at the same Tupper Avenue address. A locally incorporated single-brand company holding one of the Naramata Bench's best-known estates on the Penticton side of the bench. |
Private company | 3 licences at 2 sitesA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The owner of Cherry Lane Shopping Centre, the city's main enclosed mall. Its own domain cherrylanemall.com serves a WordPress.com placeholder reading "Cherry Lane Mall – Your local shopping experience. A bright idea, coming soon", and cherrylaneshoppingcentre.ca does not resolve. No REIT filing or annual report opened names it.
- The owner of the Penticton Lakeside Resort and of the Trade and Convention Centre hotel project. The City's 2025 Annual Report mentions a "Trade and Convention Centre Hotel" among its material; the City's own page for the convention centre rendered navigation only and no body text, so nothing could be quoted and no owner established.
- Ownership of the downtown commercial core on Main Street and of the Upper, Middle and Lower Bench commercial frontages. No source publishes building-level ownership in Penticton, and establishing it means buying $11.06 title searches parcel by parcel.
- The registered owner of Penticton Regional Hospital. Interior Health publishes that it operates the hospital at 550 Carmi Avenue, not who holds the title.
- The registered owner of the largest private parcel in the city, PID 002215594 (71.0 ha), and whether a corporation, trust or partnership holds it — a free LOTR search would name the interest holders behind a reporting body, but a LOTR search requires an account, which was not opened.
- Which provincial ministry or agency holds the two largest parcels in the city. ParcelMap BC classes them "Untitled Provincial" and "Crown Provincial"; the layer names the class and never the holder.
- Whether Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan still owns Arterra Wines Canada. The 2016 acquisition release was opened and is unambiguous; no later filing or statement confirming current ownership could be opened, and Arterra is private. Its own site arterrawines.ca did not resolve at all.
- Andrew Peller Limited's vineyard acreage in the Okanagan. Its annual report was opened and states land and vineyard land at cost, consolidated across three provinces, with no acreage and no provincial split; the Annual Information Form on SEDAR+ could not be read by automation.
- Vineyard and farm land values per acre. BC Assessment values farm-classified land at its value for farm use and publishes no reproducible per-acre benchmark; its site forbids commercial use of its data. The only figure this record stands behind is the whole farm class on the roll, $4,400,183 for Penticton in 2026.
- New-home counts for Penticton from any national series. Statistics Canada's publication of CMHC starts by census agglomeration covers Kelowna and Vernon in British Columbia and does not include Penticton, so the City's own permit reporting is the only count.
- The highest assessed single parcel in the city, in dollars. BC Assessment holds it and its licence does not permit taking it.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing (fees current as at 1 April 2026) — 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 home page and copyright notice — BC Assessment · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- City of Penticton 2025 Annual Report, including the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025, note 11 Tangible Capital Assets, note 21 Contractual Rights, and the 2025 Permissive Tax Exemptions schedule — City of Penticton · openA
- Financial Statements (index of audited statements 2022–2025) — City of Penticton · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file — BC Ministry of Finance via BC Data Catalogue · openA
- ALC Agricultural Land Reserve Polygons (WHSE_LEGAL_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.OATS_ALR_POLYS) — Agricultural Land Commission via BC Data Catalogue and BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA
- ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (WHSE_CADASTRE.PMBC_PARCEL_FABRIC_POLY_SVW), parcels over 5 ha inside the City of Penticton — Land Title and Survey Authority of BC via BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA
- All Liquor Licensed Establishments in B.C. (active licences, updated fortnightly) — BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch via BC Data Catalogue · openA
- South Okanagan Events Centre — City of Penticton · openA
- Penticton Regional Hospital — Interior Health · openA
- Ontario Teachers' acquires Canada's largest wine business from Constellation Brands (17 October 2016) — Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan · openA
- Andrew Peller Limited Annual Report 2024 — note 2, Basis of consolidation — Andrew Peller Limited (opened on the AnnualReports.com mirror; the company's own investor host and Q4 CDN both refused automated requests) · openA
- Company Overview — Andrew Peller Limited · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 503, Statement of Tangible Capital Assets for 2024; Schedule 305, Development Charges Restricted Reserve Fund Balances as at 31 December 2024; Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Our Story — Mission Group — Mission Group · openA
- Classification of Land as a Farm Regulation, B.C. Reg. 411/95 (consolidation current to 22 September 2026), section 5 — King's Printer, Victoria, British Columbia · openA
- Table 34-10-0155-01 — CMHC housing starts in census agglomerations of 50,000 and over, monthly: geography list (Penticton is not a published geography; Kelowna and Vernon are) — Statistics Canada / Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · openA