Residential property values, 2013

Residential property includes all types of property categorized as residential in most provinces in the context of assessment for property tax purposes. It includes single- and multi-family properties, farm residences, cottages and vacation homes, mobile homes, institutional and communal residences and vacant lands for residential purposes.

Property values refer to the values of properties determined by the provinces, territories and municipalities using a specific property assessment approach (cost, sales comparison or income) and adjusted by Statistics Canada to target price and volume dates of the reference year. For a given reference year, the target price date is July 1 and the volume state date is December 31. For example, in reference year 2013, the price of properties is as of July 1, 2013, and the stock or volume is as of December 31, 2013.

For the purpose of this release, the census metropolitan area of Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario and Quebec) is divided into two areas: Ottawa part and Gatineau part.

Estimates of total residential property values, by territory, are now available for reference year 2013, and revised estimates are available for reference years 2005 to 2012. These estimates are subject to revision as more current assessment and auxiliary data become available.

The methodology used in the current release differs from that used in the release on "Residential and non-residential property assessment values" (published in The Daily on November 27, 2015), to meet Finance Canada's data requirements for fiscal arrangements. For the purposes of fiscal arrangements, values represent taxable property values, expressed according to their taxation year, which corresponds to the year following the value's reference year.

For more information on the different approaches to measuring the stock of residential real estate, consult the document, "Measuring the stock of residential real estate."