Summerland, British Columbia
Summerland is 36% Agricultural Land Reserve, the most agricultural municipality in this batch, and its orchard-and-winery economy is held the way an earlier agent found Naramata was held: 27 manufacturer licences, 26 different companies, none of them Mark Anthony, Arterra or Andrew Peller. The single largest holding in the district is federal — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's 151-hectare Summerland Research and Development Centre — and the District itself holds 833 hectares across 38 large parcels and owns its own electrical utility, one of only five municipalities in British Columbia that does.
9 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 15 sources · 9 tier A · 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 fee listing current at 1 April 2026, with no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The free half is the Land Owner Transparency Registry, which since 30 November 2020 has required corporations, trusts and partnerships registering an interest in BC land to file a report naming the individuals behind them, and a search of the publicly accessible part is priced NIL. Summerland is on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table at $95.26 — the cheapest of the four municipalities in this batch and among the cheapest in the province — which is the practical cost of finding the taxpayer of record on a parcel. For a farming district the gap that matters most is that BC Assessment values farm-classified land at its value for farm use rather than market value, and forbids commercial use of its data, so there is no reproducible per-acre benchmark for orchard or vineyard land here.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summerland Research and Development Centre 4200 Highway 97, Summerland 16,562 sq m across 22 buildings |
Institutional | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (the Crown in right of Canada) The federal Directory of Federal Real Property records the Summerland Research and Development Centre at 4200 Hwy. 97, custodian Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, interest type "Crown Owned", with 151.0005 hectares of land, 22 buildings and 16,561.84 square metres of floor area. Crown Owned is the register's own word for freehold, and this is the largest single holding in the municipality — 2.0% of its 7,673 hectares, on a site inside the legal boundary, which we confirmed by projecting the register's own coordinates against the province's municipal polygon. The directory is free, open-licensed and names the custodian department; it is the cheapest owner record in Canada. |
Government | —A |
| Summerland RCMP Detachment 9101 Pineo Court, Summerland 1,672 sq m across 2 buildings |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal register records the Summerland Detachment Site at 9101 Pineo Crt, custodian Royal Canadian Mounted Police, two buildings and 1,672 square metres of floor area — and the interest type is "Lease or Licence", with land area recorded as 0.0000 ha. Canada occupies the detachment and does not own it, so the landlord sits behind the provincial register and costs $11.06 to find. The register proves the inverse of ownership and never names the lessor. |
Not established | —A |
| Summerland Post Office 13246 North Victoria Road, Summerland 449 sq m |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal register records the Summerland Post Office at 13246 North Victoria Rd., custodian Canada Post, one building of 449 square metres and 0.0103 hectares of land — interest type "Lease or Licence". Canada Post rents this one. The contrast with Merritt is exact: the Merritt Post Office at 2040 Voght St, 469.60 square metres, is recorded "Crown Owned". |
Not established | —A |
| Okanagan Crush Pad Winery and Distillery 16576 Fosbery Road, Summerland |
Industrial | Okanagan Crush Pad Winery Ltd. The province's active-licence list records two Manufacturer licences at 16576 Fosbery Road — winery licence 304079 and distillery licence 306612 — both with the licensee recorded as "Okanagan Crush Pad Winery Ltd." It is the only licensee in Summerland holding more than one licence, out of 27 licences and 26 distinct companies. The same company's Garnet Valley Ranch vineyard appears separately in the register as GARNET VALLEY RANCH LTD. at 26405 Garnet Valley Road, a different corporate name. The licence establishes the licensee at the address; who owns the land is a separate question answered only by an $11.06 title search. |
Private company | —A |
| Dirty Laundry Vineyard 7311 Fiske Street, Summerland |
Industrial | Dirty Laundry Winery Ltd. Manufacturer / Winery licence 300223 at 7311 Fiske Street, licensee "Dirty Laundry Winery Ltd.", local-government jurisdiction Summerland. One of 26 single-licence companies in the district. The register names the licensee, not the registered owner of the vineyard land. |
Private company | —A |
| 8th Generation Vineyard 6807 Highway 97, Summerland |
Industrial | 8th Generation Vineyard Inc. Manufacturer / Winery licence 302675 at 6807 Hwy 97, licensee "8th Generation Vineyard Inc." — one of the few Summerland wineries where the brand and the licensee company share a name, which is the exception rather than the rule on this bench. The licence is not title. |
Private company | —A |
| Summerland Waterfront Resort 13011 Lakeshore Drive South, Summerland |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it The province's register records Food Primary licence 304946 for the "Summerland Waterfront Resort Bistro & Waterfront Ballroom" at 13011 Lakeshore Dr S, licensee "SUMMERLAND WATERFRONT RESORT INC." A food-primary licence establishes who runs the restaurant and ballroom, not who holds title to the resort, and management is not ownership — so the owner is left blank here rather than guessed. The licensee company is named because the register names it. |
Not established | —A |
| Largest parcel in the municipality — PID 011-343-028 No civic address published; 141.1 ha inside the District of Summerland |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it ParcelMap BC classifies this parcel OWNER_TYPE "Private", PARCEL_CLASS "Subdivision", no plan number, and gives its area as 1,411,000 square metres — 141.1 hectares, and unusually for a BC municipality it is the largest parcel of any class inside the boundary; the largest Crown parcel is 131.1 ha. The second largest private parcel is 127.5 ha, PID 001-524-828. Private parcels of five hectares or more cover 1,734 ha of the district, 23% of its area. The layer gives an owner class and never a name. |
Not established | —A |
| Sumac Ridge Golf & Country Club 17333 Sumac Ridge Drive, Summerland |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it Recorded for what is no longer there. The province's active-licence list contains two licences at Sumac Ridge — a Liquor Primary and a Food Primary, both licensed to "Sumac Ridge Golf & Country Club Ltd." — and no winery licence at all. Sumac Ridge Estate Winery, for decades the best-known name in Summerland wine and latterly an Arterra brand, holds no active Manufacturer licence anywhere in the register. Neither the golf club's land nor the former winery site has a registered owner in any document this record could open. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Summerland's roll is $4.77 billion and 94% of it is houses, but the shape of the ground is agricultural in a way no other municipality in this batch is: 36.1% of the district is inside the Agricultural Land Reserve, and its farm assessment class of $5.97 million is larger than Penticton's on a municipality half Penticton's population. Private parcels of five hectares or more cover 1,734 hectares. The District itself is the second largest holder, with 833 hectares across 38 large parcels — a consequence of owning its own water and electrical utilities and the watershed that feeds them.
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 holders account for most of Summerland's large ground and only one of them is private in aggregate. Private parcels of five hectares or more total 1,734 hectares across 103 parcels — dispersed orchards and benchland, not a single estate, with the biggest at 141.1 hectares. The province holds 1,330 hectares across 19 large parcels. The District holds 833 hectares across 38, which is the footprint of a municipality that runs its own water and power. And Canada holds 151 hectares in one piece, the federal research farm, which is the single largest holding in the district.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Private holders, in aggregate ParcelMap BC classes 103 parcels of five hectares or more inside the District of Summerland as OWNER_TYPE "Private", totalling 1,734.4 ha — 23% of the municipality and the largest aggregate class. The largest is 141.1 ha (PID 011-343-028), then 127.5 ha (PID 001-524-828). No single private holder could be named: the layer gives an owner class and never a name, and the District publishes no exemption schedule or top-taxpayer table that would. |
Private company | 1,734 ha across 103 parcels over 5 haA |
| Province of British Columbia (provincial Crown) ParcelMap BC returns 15 parcels of five hectares or more classed "Untitled Provincial" totalling 1,011.4 ha and 4 classed "Crown Provincial" totalling 318.6 ha. Among them the three largest Crown parcels are 131.1 ha, 131.0 ha and 127.9 ha, all "Untitled Provincial" on reserve survey plans 20TR1, 33TR1 and 15TR1 of the Osoyoos Division of Yale District, and two titled Crown parcels of 125.5 ha and 123.5 ha (PIDs 011-531-533 and 011-531-517). The layer names the class and never the ministry or agency. |
Government | 1,330 ha across 19 large parcelsA |
| District of Summerland ParcelMap BC attributes 38 parcels of five hectares or more inside the boundary to OWNER_TYPE "Local Government", totalling 833.5 ha — more large parcels than any other holder in the district, and the largest of them 108.4 ha (PID 011-530-634). The province's ownership layer resolves 560 ha of the district to "Municipal Parcels" and a further 435 ha to local or regional park. Land at cost is $15,711,429 in the province's Schedule 503 for 2024. A municipality that owns its water supply, its watershed and its electrical distribution network holds more ground than one that does not. |
Government | 833 ha across 38 large parcels; $15.7M of land at costB |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (the Crown in right of Canada) The Summerland Research and Development Centre at 4200 Hwy. 97, recorded "Crown Owned" in the federal Directory of Federal Real Property with 151.0005 hectares, 22 buildings and 16,561.84 square metres of floor area — the single largest holding in the municipality, 2.0% of its area. Canada also holds a Land Use Permit over 0.0405 ha at Trout Creek through Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and rents the post office and the RCMP detachment. ParcelMap BC separately classes only one parcel over five hectares in Summerland as "Federal", at 22.1 ha; the two registers are counting different things and this record states each as it stands. |
Government | 151.0 ha, 22 buildings, 16,562 sq mA |
| The Agricultural Land Reserve (a designation, not an owner) Listed here because on a district this agricultural the ALR constrains ownership more than any single holder does, and because an ALR polygon is routinely mistaken for a parcel. It is a designation boundary: a single block covers many separately titled properties and the layer carries no owner attribute at all. Two blocks dominate Summerland, at 1,051.8 ha and 944.2 ha. The District's 2025 Annual Report records four Agricultural Land Commission applications received in the year. |
Government | 2,769 ha, 36.1% of the districtA |
| No forest licensee holds land in Summerland Tested because the ratio of private to Crown land inverts regionally in British Columbia and a forest licence is routinely mistaken for ownership. The province's Tree Farm Licence Schedule A layer — the licensee's own private land — returns no features at all over the District of Summerland, and the FTEN managed-licence layer returns none either. The layers are live: Schedule A holds 1,185 polygons province-wide and returned 189 in a control query over Vancouver Island. A licence over Crown timber is not freehold, and in Summerland there is neither. |
Private company | 0 Schedule A polygons; 0 managed-licence polygonsA |
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.
Summerland added 200 new housing units in 2025 on $99.5 million of construction value across 204 building permits — the highest construction value in five years — and it does this without appearing in any national series: Statistics Canada's publication of CMHC starts by census agglomeration has no Summerland geography. Unlike West Kelowna the District does not publish a permit-by-permit list naming contractors, so there is no builder league table for this market and this record does not invent one. What the District does name is projects: Parkdale Housing and Turning Points Affordable Housing under construction, the Oasis Development receiving occupancy approval, and building permits for the Okanagan Food and Innovation Hub at 15815 Highway 97 under review during the year.
| Name | Type | Units, as the District states them |
|---|---|---|
| District of Summerland (the permit record, not a builder) The District's 2025 Annual Report states "In total, 200 new housing units were added", "Total construction value reached $99,498,885, representing the highest level recorded over the past five years" and 204 building permits. It names the significant projects under construction as Parkdale Housing and Turning Points Affordable Housing, records that the Oasis Development project received occupancy approval, and notes that building permits for the Okanagan Food and Innovation Hub at 15815 Highway 97 were under review in the reporting period. The report names no builder for any of them. |
Government | 200 units added in 2025A |
| Turning Points Collaborative Society (named project, ownership not established) The District's 2025 Annual Report lists "Turning Points Affordable Housing" among the significant projects under construction in the year. The report gives no address, no unit count and no statement of who holds the site, and the District publishes no permissive tax exemption schedule that would name a registered owner, so nothing further is asserted here. |
Institution | 1 affordable housing project under construction in 2025A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Summerland's business-and-other assessment class is worth $202.6 million and its commercial property is its wineries, its cideries and its distilleries. The province's liquor register is an unusually complete record of them, and its finding is the Naramata finding repeated: 27 Manufacturer licences with a Summerland address, 26 distinct licensees, exactly one company holding more than one, and not a single licence held by Mark Anthony Group, Arterra Wines Canada or Andrew Peller — the three consolidators that between them hold 20 licences elsewhere in the Okanagan. Concentration was tested here rather than assumed, and it is not present.
| Name | Type | Manufacturer licences held |
|---|---|---|
| Okanagan Crush Pad Winery Ltd. Licensee of the Okanagan Crush Pad winery (304079) and distillery (306612), both at 16576 Fosbery Road — the only licensee in Summerland holding more than one licence. On the province's own register this is the ceiling of concentration in the district. |
Private company | 2 of the district's 27 manufacturer licencesA |
| The 25 other single-licence winery, cider and distilling companies Every other Manufacturer licence with a Summerland address is held by a different incorporated company: Cactus Creek Winery Ltd. (Thornhaven, 6816 Andrew Ave), Dirty Laundry Winery Ltd. (7311 Fiske St), Route 97 Wines Ltd. (Back Door Winery, 9752 Jones Flat Rd), Silk Scarf Holdings Inc. (4917 Gartrell Rd), 8th Generation Vineyard Inc. (6807 Hwy 97), Summerland Sweets Ltd. (Sleeping Giant, 6206 Canyon View Rd), Summergate Winery Ltd., PAMPLEMOUSSE JUS NATURAL WINERY INC., Summerland Heritage Cider Ltd., Sage Hills Estate Winery And Vineyards Inc., Giant Head Estate Winery Ltd., OLD WEST WINE CONSULTING INC. (Observatory Wines), Dominion Cider Co. Ltd., Moonlight Valley Winery Ltd. (Lunessence), 1365714 B.C. Ltd. (Detonate Brewing), Nomad Cider Ltd, ALCHEMIST DISTILLER INC., Elysia Vineyard Ltd (Lightning Rock), 1022234 B.C. LTD. (Solvero), 1056464 B.C. Ltd. (Giant's Head Brewing), MILLIONAIRES' ROW CIDER CO. LTD., VOWS & VINES VINEYARD LTD., Ve Oh Lay Acres Ltd., CONTROLLED ENTROPY DISTILLING INC. and GARNET VALLEY RANCH LTD. Brand and company rarely share a name, which is why this record never infers ownership from a brand. |
Private company | 25 licences, one eachA |
| Mark Anthony Group Inc., Arterra Wines Canada and Andrew Peller Limited, jointly Tested rather than assumed. Across the Okanagan the register gives Mark Anthony Group Inc. ten Manufacturer licences (four at Kelowna, two at West Kelowna, one at Okanagan Falls, three at Oliver), Arterra Wines Canada, Inc. five (Okanagan Falls, Penticton, three at Oliver) and Andrew Peller Limited four directly plus one through its wholly owned subsidiary Sandhill Vineyards Ltd. None of them holds a Summerland licence. Sumac Ridge Estate Winery, historically the Summerland name in this trade, holds no active Manufacturer licence in the register at all. |
Private company | 0 of 27 Summerland licencesA |
| District of Summerland (electrical and water utilities) The District's 2025 Annual Report states that "Summerland is one of only five municipalities in BC that owns its electrical utility" and that it has served the community for over 110 years, purchasing most of its energy from the local transmission grid. The 2025 statements record $370,500 of wholesale electricity purchased from FortisBC and an Electric Fund ending the year with $6.4 million in unappropriated surplus, down $19,825. The province's Schedule 503 gives the District a water system of $64,884,995 at cost and $23,617,446 of other engineering systems — the utility plant. |
Government | $64.9M water system, $23.6M other engineering systems, at costA |
| Summerland Waterfront Resort Inc. Licensee of the Summerland Waterfront Resort Bistro & Waterfront Ballroom at 13011 Lakeshore Dr S, licence 304946, Food Primary. Named because the register names it; a food-primary licence does not establish title to the resort and no document opened here does. |
Private company | 1 licence at the district's only waterfront resortA |
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 registered owner of any commercial building in Summerland. The District publishes no permissive tax exemption schedule naming owners, no top-taxpayer table and no owner register of any kind, so unlike West Kelowna and Merritt there is not one parcel in this municipality for which a published document names the registered owner. Establishing any of it means buying $11.06 title searches parcel by parcel.
- Who owns the vineyard and orchard LAND, as opposed to the winery businesses. The province's liquor register names the licensee company at each address, which is a real and checkable fact; it is not title. A vineyard company may farm land it owns, land it leases, or both.
- Orchard and vineyard land values per acre. BC Assessment values farm-classified land at its value for farm use rather than market value and forbids commercial use of its data outright, and no reproducible per-acre benchmark for the Summerland bench could be opened. The only figure this record stands behind is the whole farm class, $5,965,109.
- The owner of the Summerland Waterfront Resort at 13011 Lakeshore Drive South. The province's register names Summerland Waterfront Resort Inc. as the licensee of its bistro and ballroom; a food-primary licence is not title.
- The owner and status of the former Sumac Ridge Estate Winery site. The province's active-licence list contains no winery licence at Sumac Ridge and no active Manufacturer licence under that name anywhere, only a golf and country club; no document stating what became of the winery operation could be opened.
- The owner of the Okanagan Food and Innovation Hub site at 15815 Highway 97. The District's 2025 Annual Report records only that building permits for it were under review during the reporting period.
- The District of Summerland's own tangible-capital-asset note and permissive exemption list for 2025. The 2025 Annual Report is a 64 MB PDF whose extracted text carries the narrative but neither schedule, so the land figure here comes from the province's Schedule 503 for 2024.
- Which provincial ministry or agency holds the 19 large Crown parcels. ParcelMap BC gives the owner class and never the holder.
- The highest assessed single parcel in Summerland, in dollars. BC Assessment holds it and its licence does not permit taking it.
- A housing starts series for Summerland from any national source. Statistics Canada's publication of CMHC starts by census agglomeration has no Summerland geography, so the District's own permit reporting is the only count.
- The registered owner of the largest parcel in the district, PID 011-343-028 (141.1 ha), and whether a corporation, trust or partnership holds it. A LOTR search is free but requires an account.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, including the Searches table and the 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 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
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024, and Schedule 503, Statement of Tangible Capital Assets for 2024 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- All Liquor Licensed Establishments in B.C. (active licences) — the 27 Manufacturer licences with a Summerland address and their licensees, and the Okanagan holdings of Mark Anthony Group, Arterra and Andrew Peller — BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch via BC Data Catalogue · openA
- ALC Agricultural Land Reserve Polygons (WHSE_LEGAL_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.OATS_ALR_POLYS), District of Summerland — 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 attributed to "Summerland, The Corporation of the District of" — Land Title and Survey Authority of BC via BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA
- Generalized Forest Cover Ownership (WHSE_FOREST_VEGETATION.F_OWN), District of Summerland — BC Ministry of Forests, Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch, via BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP): The Corporation of the District of Summerland, feature area 76,734,007.7 sq m — BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship via BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — the federal parcels in the District of Summerland, with custodian, interest type, land area, building count, floor area and coordinates — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file, jurisdiction 325 District of Summerland and jurisdiction 777 Summerland Rural — BC Ministry of Finance via BC Data Catalogue · openA
- District of Summerland 2025 Annual Report — Development Services, Electric Utility and Financial Services sections — District of Summerland · openA
- Reports, Studies and Plans (the index from which the 2025 Annual Report was located) — District of Summerland · openA
- FADM - Tree Farm License (TFL) Schedule A (WHSE_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.FADM_TFL_SCHED_A) — nil features over Summerland; 1,185 province-wide — BC Ministry of Forests via BC Data Catalogue and BC Geographic Warehouse WFS · openA