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Douglas Todd: Why can't we know who owns Canada's second most-expensive house?

The estate at 4707 Belmont Ave. in Vancouver has an assessed value of $70 million. But, even with B.C.'s land ownership transparency act, the quest continues to figure out who actually owns it.

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Postmedia News has been trying to figure out the owner of Canada’s second most-expensive house, at 4707 Belmont Ave. in Vancouver, for more than a decade. Its assessed value is $70 million.

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Then Vancouver Sun reporter Jeff Lee tried to get to the bottom of the matter in 2013, when the house was the priciest in Canada, since the owner’s name didn’t show up in B.C.’s Land Title Registry or corporate registries. Given the mystery, Lee tracked down the architect of the expansive home, the lawyer for the owner and the contractor who did the stonework. They all said they were under strict orders to not disclose the owner’s name.

Flash-forward to 2026 — years after the B.C. government promised to make it easy for the public to find the names of the........

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