Port Moody, British Columbia
Port Moody publishes the thing most BC cities keep behind an $11.06 paywall: a table headed "Registered Owner" naming the ten companies that pay the most property tax in the city — Suncor at $10.7 million, Imperial Oil, Pacific Coast Terminals, Onni and, at $1,078,807, Mill & Timber Products Ltd., the registered owner of the 34-acre former Flavelle sawmill on the waterfront that nine years of planning has designated for 3,397 homes and 38 storeys and that no one has yet applied to rezone.
11 buildings · 11 with an owner established · 21 sources · 7 tier A · 4 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
British Columbia's land title register is open to anyone but priced per search: $11.06 for a search under section 377 of the Land Title Act on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing current at 1 April 2026, with no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The free half of the picture is the Land Owner Transparency Registry: since 30 November 2020 a corporation, trust or partnership registering an interest in BC land must file a transparency report naming the individuals behind it, search of the registry opened on 30 April 2021, and a search of the publicly accessible part is priced NIL on the same schedule. A municipal tax certificate for Port Moody through LTSA's Tax Certificates Online is $128.26. But for this city the paid search is largely unnecessary at the top of the market, because the City's own annual report prints a "Registered Owner" column against the ten largest tax bills in town.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanfront District — the former Flavelle sawmill 2450 Columbia Street 34 acres (about 13.8 ha) |
Land | Mill & Timber Products Ltd. The City's 2025 Annual Report lists MILL & TIMBER PRODUCTS LTD under the heading "Registered Owner" with $1,078,807 of tax levied in 2025 ($1,161,018 in 2024). The OCP adopted 28 April 2026 designates the site "Mixed Use – Oceanfront District", "the waterfront site occupied by the former Mill and Timber sawmill", and caps it at 357,064m2 of gross floor area, 3,397 residential units, 42,270m2 of employment floor space and 38 storeys. The City states it "has not received a full development application" here; the proponent, Flavelle Oceanfront Development, says a 2024 pre-application was completed. The designation is not a sale: title has not changed. |
Private company | —A |
| Pacific Coast Terminals 2300 Columbia Street 43 hectares (108 acres) |
Industrial | Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd. PACIFIC COAST TERMINALS CO LTD appears in the City's "Registered Owner" table with $2,436,183 of tax levied in 2025, third largest in the city. The terminal's own site describes "Our 43-hectare (108-acre) automated terminal", handling sulphur, canola oil, potash and ethylene glycol with throughput capacity over 12 million tonnes a year and clients including Bunge, Cargill, K+S Canada and MEGlobal. The City's Industrial Land Strategy excludes PCT from its industrial inventory because it "is under federal jurisdiction". The split between PCT's fee simple upland and federal port water lot is not published. |
Private company | —B |
| Suncor Energy Burrard terminal and fuel storage Barnet Highway waterfront and upland, Port Moody |
Industrial | Suncor Energy Inc. / Suncor Energy Products Partnership / Petro-Canada The single largest property taxpayer in Port Moody by a wide margin: the City's 2025 Annual Report lists "SUNCOR ENERGY INC / SUNCOR ENERGY PRODUCTS PARTNERSHIP / PETRO CANADA" under "Registered Owner" at $10,740,376 of tax levied in 2025, against $9,884,351 for "SUNCOR ENERGY INC" alone in 2024 — 16.7% of the $64.2 million the City levied for itself. The City's Industrial Land Strategy places Suncor's holdings as "both marine terminal on the inlet and upland fuel mixing and storage facilities" flanking Barnet Highway. The City publishes the owner and the tax, never the area or a legal description. |
Public company | —A |
| Eagle Ridge Hospital 475 Guildford Way |
Institutional | Fraser Health Authority The largest single exemption on the City's roll. Port Moody's 2025 Tax Exemptions table names Fraser Health Authority against folio 16476-000 under section 220(1)(j) of the Community Charter — a statutory, not permissive, exemption — with $171,172,000 of exempt assessment in class 6 and $812,290 of municipal tax forgone, 78% of the city's $1,037,878 total exemptions. The City adds a note that Fraser Health "has no reference on the permissive exemption bylaw". The BC geocoder resolves 475 Guildford Way to a point inside the legal City of Port Moody boundary. The table names the exempt body; it does not recite a registered owner for this folio. |
Institution | —A |
| Vancouver Fraser Port Authority holding in Port Moody Burrard Inlet, Port Moody (no civic address in the register) 2,431.91 ha |
Land | Vancouver Fraser Port Authority The Directory of Federal Real Property records one Vancouver Fraser Port Authority property whose parcel location is Municipality "Port Moody", Metro Area "Vancouver": primary use Transportation Marine, interest type Crown Owned, 2,431.9103 ha, no buildings and no floor area. Read carefully: that is larger than Port Moody's 2,592 ha of land and must be water lot and foreshore held under the port's federal jurisdiction rather than dry land inside the city, and the register gives one coordinate pair rather than a boundary. It is recorded because it is the largest single federal interest named anywhere near the city, and because it is what sits under the terminals. |
Government | —A |
| Inlet District — the Coronation Park assembly 59 properties in the Coronation Park neighbourhood, Port Moody 14.8 acres (6.0 ha) |
Residential | Wesgroup Properties The City's engagement page for application REZ00030 states that "In July 2020, following a pre-application submission earlier in the year, Wesgroup Properties applied to the City for an OCP amendment to 14.8 acres (6.0 ha) of the Coronation Park Neighbourhood", that Council approved it in April 2022 and Wesgroup applied to rezone in July 2022; the area is "59 lots currently zoned One-Family Residential (RS1), plus City-owned roads", for up to 2,091,169 sq ft of residential floor area, six towers of 26 to 31 storeys and about 2,587 units. INLET DISTRICT INVESTMENTS LTD paid $560,959 of tax in 2024 on the City's owner table. Whether one entity holds all 59 titles is not published. |
Developer | —B |
| Portwood (formerly Woodland Park) 300 Angela Drive and 1142 Cecile Drive 23.4 acres |
Residential | Edgar Development Corp. The City's engagement page gives application 6700-20-205 at 300 Angela Drive and 1142 Cecile Drive, bylaws 3305 and 3306, for 18 buildings of 6 to 19 storeys, 2,053 residential units including 325 below-market and 132 market-rental, 19,000 sq ft of commercial and 11,800 sq ft of childcare; the OCP's development permit guidelines describe a 23.4 acre site in three parts divided by Angela and Cecile Drives with a 44m cross fall, bordered by Suncor Energy industrial land to the northwest. The project's own privacy notice identifies the developer as "Edgar Development Corp. and rennie (doing business as EDGAR)". 1030 CECILE DRIVE HOLDINGS LTD paid $525,490 of tax in 2025. |
Developer | —B |
| 2505, 2509, 2513 and 2517 St. George Street 2505–2517 St. George Street 32,710 sq ft (0.75 acres, 0.3 ha) |
Land | City of Port Moody The City states: "The City purchased the four properties, located at 2505, 2509, 2513, and 2517 St. George Street, for a combined total of $9.95 million with funds from Parks Development Cost Charges". It adds that negotiations for land purchases are held in closed meetings "to protect the interests of both the owner and the City as the purchaser" and released only once the purchase and sale agreements are finalised, that possession dates vary, that prior owners continue to use the land under lease, and that there is no timeline for the change of use from residential to park. The land adjoins Kyle Park and the Kyle Centre redevelopment. |
Government | CAD $9.95M 2026-07 Announced 29 July 2026; paid from Parks Development Cost Charges. Possession dates vary by property and prior owners hold short-term leases back. A |
| 3016 Murray Street — the Rocky Point Park extension 3016 Murray Street 43,560 sq ft (one acre) |
Land | City of Port Moody "The City of Port Moody has purchased 43,560 square feet (one acre) of land at 3016 Murray Street for additional park space... The City purchased the land for $3.9 million with funds taken from established reserves such as the Heritage Reserve and the Community Amenity Contributions Reserve. The date of possession was June 27, 2019." The City adds that three active leases ran on the site and could continue to 2026. Two further assemblies followed on St. George Street: 2506 and 2510 for $5.9 million combined, announced 27 October 2024 with possession 7 December 2024 and 16 January 2025, and the four 2505–2517 lots for $9.95 million in 2026. |
Government | CAD $3.9M 2019-06 Announced 28 May 2019; date of possession 27 June 2019; paid from the Heritage Reserve and Community Amenity Contributions Reserve. A |
| Admiralty Point North shore of Burrard Inlet, City of Port Moody 76.71 ha |
Institutional | Parks Canada Agency The Directory of Federal Real Property records Admiralty Point, custodian Parks Canada Agency, interest type Crown Owned, primary use Parks and Recreation, 76.7085 ha, no buildings, address given as "12 km east of Vancouver", parcel municipality Port Moody. Its coordinates fall inside the legal City of Port Moody boundary on the province's own ABMS layer, which here reaches across Burrard Inlet to the north shore — so this is in Port Moody and not in the neighbouring Village of Belcarra, and it is the largest single piece of Crown-owned dry land the federal register attributes to the city. |
Government | —A |
| Westport Village — the former Andrés winery site 2120 Vintner Street and 2110–2136 Clarke Street |
Land | Andrew Peller Ltd. The City's engagement page gives application 6700-20-141 at 2120 Vintner St and 2110-2136 Clarke St, to redesignate "the winery site" from General Industrial to Mixed Use – Moody Centre and create a CD77 zone; the Industrial Land Strategy calls it "the now-closed Andrés Wine site, which is part of the proposed Westport development project". ANDREW PELLER LTD appears on the City's 2025 "Registered Owner" table at $525,332 of tax levied, its first appearance in the published top ten. The developer's own site, westportvillage.ca, would not respond. 2120 Vintner Street geocodes inside the city boundary. |
Public company | —B |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Port Moody is a $19.4 billion roll that is 88% houses and yet draws almost a third of its tax from industry, because four industrial owners occupy its waterfront. Over the last fifteen years the City records the industrial and commercial share of its tax revenue moving only between 31.01% and 35.63%, from 32.54% in 2010 to 31.96% in 2024. The City's own land, at $469.1 million of cost, is half of everything it owns. ParcelMap BC's public WFS would not answer, so no parcel count or ownership-class split is published here.
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.
Four categories hold Port Moody. The City itself, with $469.1 million of land at cost — half of everything it owns, and growing by purchase at $3.9 million in 2019, $5.9 million in 2024 and $9.95 million in 2026 for four lots on one street. Four industrial companies on the waterfront. The federal government, whose largest interest here is the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's 2,431.91 ha of Crown-owned marine land. And Mill & Timber Products Ltd., whose 34 acres carries a designation for 3,397 homes and no application.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| City of Port Moody 49.6% of the City's $945.9 million of tangible capital asset cost at 31 December 2025, and the figure rose $3.81 million during the year. The City buys land deliberately and says so: "Land is scarce in Port Moody, which means the City must act, whenever possible, when land becomes available." Three disclosed assemblies on Murray and St. George Streets came to $19.75 million for 93,675 sq ft, about 2.15 acres. |
Government | $469,093,841 of land at costA |
| Mill & Timber Products Ltd. The registered owner of the former Flavelle sawmill, named as such in the City's own table. The site is the single largest undeveloped landholding inside the built-up city and the OCP designates it for 357,064m2 of floor area and 38 storeys. Its proponent, Flavelle Oceanfront Development, describes the site as "34-acre" and "family-owned" and states that "a full rezoning application will be pursued on the basis of the Oceanfront District OCP designation as agreed to by the landowner and the City of Port Moody". No individual is named here. |
Private company | 34 acres at 2450 Columbia Street; $1,078,807 of tax, 2025A |
| Vancouver Fraser Port Authority One Directory of Federal Real Property record, Transportation Marine, no buildings, parcel municipality Port Moody, metro area Vancouver. Larger than the city's dry land area, so it is read here as water lot and foreshore under federal port jurisdiction rather than land inside the municipality. The register gives no boundary and no lessee, so which terminals sit on it cannot be read from the file. |
Government | 2,431.91 ha, Crown OwnedA |
| Government of Canada — the rest of the federal footprint Beyond the port authority the federal register holds, in Port Moody: Admiralty Point, Parks Canada, 76.7085 ha Crown Owned; the Port Moody Postal Station at 45 Mary Street, Canada Post, 0.1619 ha Crown Owned with 364.6 sq m of building; and three interests where Canada is a tenant and the landlord is therefore behind the register — the RCMP Port Moody Detachment at 3051 St. Johns Street (571 sq m), NRC-IRAP at 130 Brew Street (109 sq m) and four Fisheries and Oceans navigation sites at Burns Point, Carraholly Point, Reed Point and Port Moody held under Land Use Permit at 0.0404 ha each. |
Government | 76.71 ha owned; 3 leased sites; 4 navigation land-use permitsA |
| Wesgroup Properties / Inlet District Investments Ltd. The largest private residential assembly in the city. The City names Wesgroup Properties as the applicant over 59 one-family lots plus City-owned roads; INLET DISTRICT INVESTMENTS LTD paid $560,959 of tax in 2024 on the City's registered-owner table. Whether the 59 titles are all in one name is not published, and a rezoning application is not evidence of title. |
Developer | 14.8 acres across 59 lotsB |
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.
Housebuilding in Port Moody is four master-planned sites, not a builder market: Coronation Park (Wesgroup, 2,587 units), Portwood/Woodland Park (Edgar, 2,053 units), the Oceanfront District (Mill & Timber's land, 3,397 units designated and no application filed) and the Moody Centre transit area, whose OCP amendment was withdrawn. Between them the designations carry more units than the city built in the previous two decades. There is no league table at this scale; the figures below are from the City's own application records and the developers' own statements of who they are.
| Name | Type | Units in the application |
|---|---|---|
| Wesgroup Properties Applicant for Coronation Park / Inlet District per the City's engagement page for REZ00030: an OCP amendment to 14.8 acres approved April 2022 and a rezoning application in July 2022 for six towers of 26 to 31 storeys, 2,091,169 sq ft of residential floor area and about 2,587 units including 101 market-rental. Its own project site gives a presentation centre at 2541 Clarke Street and homes on sale "from $399,900". |
Developer | about 2,587 units; 14.8 acres; 59 lotsA |
| Edgar Development Corp. Developer of Portwood, formerly Woodland Park, at 300 Angela Drive and 1142 Cecile Drive. The City's record gives 18 buildings of 6 to 19 storeys, 2,053 units including 325 below-market and 132 market-rental, approved by Council on 7 December 2021, with phases 2 and 3 development permits approved October 2022 and completion estimated 2036. The project's own privacy notice names "Edgar Development Corp. and rennie (doing business as EDGAR)". |
Developer | 2,053 units; 23.4 acresB |
| Onni Group — Onni Development (Ioco Road) Corp. and Onni Development (St Johns Street) Corp. Fourth on the City's 2025 registered-owner table. The 2024 table named ONNI DEVELOPMENT (IOCO ROAD) CORP alone at $1,366,403; the 2025 line adds a St Johns Street entity. The National Research Council leases 109 sq m at 130 Brew Street in Suter Brook under a "Lease or Licence" interest in the federal register, which proves Canada is a tenant there and not an owner. |
Private company | $1,652,357 of tax levied, 2025A |
| Bosa Development Group Inc. Seventh on the City's 2025 registered-owner table, up from $697,090 in 2024. The City publishes the owner and the tax bill and no address, so which of its Port Moody holdings carry that assessment is not established here. |
Family / private | $744,666 of tax levied, 2025A |
| Aragon Properties — Aragon (St Johns) Properties Ltd. and Aragon (Clarke) Properties Ltd. Two separate entities on the City's 2024 registered-owner table at $206,924 and $184,336. Both fall out of the 2025 table, which the City shortened from 25 names to 10, so their 2025 position is not published. |
Private company | $391,260 of tax levied, 2024A |
| Woodbridge Living (St Johns) Ltd. On the City's 2024 registered-owner table. Not in the shortened 2025 top ten. |
Private company | $196,714 of tax levied, 2024A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The commercial and industrial side of Port Moody is unusually legible because the City prints the owners. Four industrial companies — Suncor, Imperial Oil, Pacific Coast Terminals and Polynt Coatings — pay $16.98 million of the $101.5 million levied in the city, and all four sit on or beside the Burrard Inlet waterfront. The institutional landlord that matters most is Fraser Health, whose statutorily exempt Eagle Ridge Hospital assessment of $171.2 million is larger than the city's entire major-industry class.
| Name | Type | Tax levied, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Suncor Energy Inc. / Suncor Energy Products Partnership / Petro-Canada The largest property taxpayer in Port Moody, named as registered owner in the City's 2025 Annual Report. Its holdings are the Burrard marine terminal on the inlet and the upland fuel mixing and storage facilities flanking Barnet Highway, per the City's Industrial Land Strategy. The City's table carries a footnote that the figures include amounts collected for other taxing authorities and are net of the Port Competitiveness Grant. |
Public company | $10,740,376A |
| Imperial Oil Ltd. Second largest. The former Ioco refinery lands on the north shore. The OCP's Ioco Townsite Heritage Conservation Area guidelines state that "A portion of the Townsite is still owned by Imperial Oil Limited" while the surrounding vacant lands were "once owned by Imperial Oil and also considered part of the Ioco lands" — the City's own statement that part of the holding has been sold and part has not. Onni Development (Ioco Road) Corp. is separately on the same owner table. |
Public company | $2,575,663A |
| Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd. A 43-hectare (108-acre) automated bulk terminal handling sulphur, canola oil, potash and ethylene glycol, throughput capacity over 12 million tonnes a year. The City's Industrial Land Strategy leaves it out of the industrial inventory because it "is under federal jurisdiction and not subject to the same development pressures as other industrial land in the city". |
Private company | $2,436,183B |
| Polynt Coatings Canada Ltd. Fifth on the City's 2025 registered-owner table. The Industrial Land Strategy identifies it as "Polynt Coatings (formerly Reichhold Chemical)" on or near the waterfront adjacent to the traditional town centre. |
Private company | $1,227,696A |
| Fraser Health Authority Eagle Ridge Hospital, 475 Guildford Way. Exempt under section 220(1)(j) of the Community Charter with $812,290 of municipal tax forgone in 2025 — the single largest exemption in the city and 78% of all exemptions granted. Statutory, not permissive: the City notes Fraser Health "has no reference on the permissive exemption bylaw". |
Institution | $171,172,000 of exempt assessmentA |
| OpenRoad Auto Group Ltd. Eighth on the City's 2025 registered-owner table, up from $660,345 in 2024 — car dealership land on the St Johns Street corridor is among the larger commercial holdings in the city by tax bill. The City publishes no address against the name. |
Private company | $710,586A |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- ParcelMap BC parcel counts, ownership-class splits and titled-area figures for Port Moody. The province's public WFS returned HTTP 504 and GeoServer connection-pool timeouts to every request made over several hours.
- Which parcels carry the Suncor, Imperial Oil, Bosa, OpenRoad or Polynt assessments. The City publishes the registered owner and the tax levied and no address or legal description against either.
- The division of the Pacific Coast Terminals site between the company's own fee simple and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Crown-owned marine land. Both are documented; the line between them is not.
- Who owns Suter Brook Village and Newport Village as entities, and which of the Onni entities holds which. The federal register proves Canada leases 109 sq m at 130 Brew Street without naming the lessor.
- The highest assessed single parcel in Port Moody in dollars. BC Assessment holds it and its site forbids commercial use of the data outright.
- The landlord of the RCMP Port Moody Detachment at 3051 St. Johns Street. The federal register records a Lease or Licence and never names the lessor.
- Whether the 59 Coronation Park lots are held by one entity. The City names Wesgroup Properties as applicant over the area; it does not publish title.
- The registered owner of the Westport Village site beyond Andrew Peller Ltd.'s appearance on the 2025 tax table; westportvillage.ca did not respond at all.
- BC publishes no price-paid file. Port Moody's 2025 corporate-transaction count is suppressed as "nr" in 9 of 12 months, and the Land Owner Transparency Registry covers only land held through corporations, trusts and partnerships, not land held directly by an individual.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, Searches table and Tax Certificates Online participating-municipality table — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — important dates — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment home page, 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 — open data extract (dfrp-rbif.xml), rows whose parcel Municipality or Metro Area names the city — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- BC Physical Address Geocoder — GeoBC / Province of British Columbia · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS, legal boundary polygons used for point-in-polygon checks — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- 2025 Annual Report — City of Port Moody (audited consolidated financial statements Note 13 Tangible Capital Assets; 2025 Major Property Tax Contributors, "Registered Owner"; 2025 Tax Exemptions Bylaw No. 3486; Property Taxes Levied and Collected 2021–2025) — City of Port Moody · openA
- 2024 Annual Report — City of Port Moody (2024 Principal Taxpayers in Port Moody, 25 names under "Registered Owner"; 2024 Tax Exemptions Bylaw No. 3425; Note 14 Tangible Capital Assets; Building Permit Values 2020–2024) — City of Port Moody · openA
- Official Community Plan Bylaw, 2026, No. 3522 — Port Moody 2050, Chapter 14.6.9 Oceanfront District and Appendix 3 Ioco Townsite Heritage Conservation Area Guidelines — City of Port Moody · openA
- Coronation Park (2) — Rezoning, application REZ00030 — Engage Port Moody (City of Port Moody) · openA
- Woodland Park — OCP amendment and rezoning, application 6700-20-205; and the Portwood project site — Engage Port Moody (City of Port Moody) / Edgar Development Corp. · openA
- City purchases land in the Moody Centre neighbourhood near Kyle Centre for future use as park space — City of Port Moody · openA
- City of Port Moody purchases land to achieve vision of expanding Rocky Point Park; and City purchases land near Kyle Centre to add park space in Moody Centre neighbourhood — City of Port Moody · openA
- Port Moody Industrial Land Strategy, final report — industrial land inventory and exclusions — City of Port Moody · openA
- Oceanfront District — Port Moody 2050 news item ("The City has not received a full development application for property in the Oceanfront District") — Engage Port Moody (City of Port Moody) · openA
- Flavelle OceanFront Development — home page and FAQs (34-acre site, 2450 Columbia St., project status) — Flavelle Oceanfront Development · openA
- PCT — Pacific Coast Terminals: home page and About Us (43-hectare/108-acre terminal, commodities, throughput) — Pacific Coast Terminals · openA
- Westport Village — OCP amendment and rezoning, application 6700-20-141 — Engage Port Moody (City of Port Moody) · openA