The Province has provided an update on short-term rental registration (STR) numbers and deadlines ahead of the one-year anniversary of new restrictions meant to crack down on illegal listings and open up more long-term homes.
As of today, all short-term rental hosts in B.C. should have registered their listings and received a provincial registration number.
To date, more than 20,000 listings have been registered.
When the STR legislation was introduced in 2023, there were an estimated 28,000 individual STR listings in B.C., indicating, the Province says, more of these units are being converted to long-term homes that people need.
The government is extending timelines for some STR platforms to allow for additional time to complete technical work on validation systems.
As of June 2, 2025, if a short-term rental listing does not have a valid registration number, platforms need to stop advertising the listing and prevent new bookings from that host or face a possible investigation and potential penalty. That date was previously May 1.
As of June 23, 2025, platforms must cancel all future bookings from hosts without a valid provincial registration number. That was supposed to take effect on June 1.
Hosts are still expected to register their listings by today.
The Province says since the legislation was introduced to restrict short-term rentals, asking rates for long-term rentals are down 6.1% throughout B.C.
In addition, annual CMHC data shows provincewide vacancy rates are up from 1.2% in 2023 to 1.9% last year.
For more information, visit Government of British Columbia.
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