Owners of short-term rental properties in the Columbia Shuswap Regional District have been given more time to sort out registration with the B.C. government.
As of May 1, all short-term rental (STR) hosts in the province were supposed to have registered their listings and received a provincial registration number.
To date, more than 20,000 listings have been registered according to the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs.
"When the STR legislation was introduced in 2023, there were an estimated 28,000 individual STR listings in B.C., indicating more of these units are being converted to long-term homes that people need," noted the ministry in a media release.
In response to requests from STR platforms to allow for additional time to complete technical work on platforms' validation systems, the ministry has extended the period in which platforms are "legally required to validate provincial registration numbers and automatically remove illegal listings." They are as follows:
鈥� As of June 2, 2025, if a short-term rental listing does not have a valid registration number, platforms must stop advertising the listing and prevent new bookings from that host or face a possible investigation and potential monetary penalty.
鈥� As of June 23, 2025, platforms must cancel all future bookings from hosts without a valid provincial registration number or face a possible investigation and potential monetary penalty.
During this period, the ministry said it will continue working with platforms to ensure any technical challenges or concerns are addressed. Hosts are still expected to register their listings by May 1.
With the STR legislation and communities that have chosen to opt in or out of STR rental rules, the ministry stated municipalities with fewer than 10,000 people, regional districts and resort municipalities are exempt from the principal-residence requirement but may request to opt in by March 31 of each year, to take effect Nov. 1 of the same year. The three communities that have requested to opt in in 2025 are the Town of Creston, Salt Spring Island and Electoral Area B of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District (Revelstoke/Golden).
