Real Estate: Land Assembly in British Columbia

11/20/2025

Hello everyone,
Most of you know me through my work in land assemblies, redevelopment opportunities, and Vancouver’s evolving housing landscape. I’m grateful for the trust so many of you have placed in me over the years.

Today, I wanted to share something a little more personal.
Alongside my real-estate work, I’ve also been writing — and I’ve just released my first original Christmas song as a lyricist, called “Every Christmas.”

It’s inspired by the same things that ground my work:
community, family, and creating spaces where people belong.

Check it out here:
🎧 Watch on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWYjdPrT1tA

Thank you for supporting both my professional and creative journeys.
Wishing everyone a successful season ahead — in business, in planning, and in life.

— Geraldine Santiago
Realtor® | Land Assembly Specialist | Lyricist 🎄✨

Provided to YouTube by DistroKidEvery Christmas · Geraldine Santiago · AI vocals generated using Mureka AI · Steven A. WilliamsEvery Christmas℗ Geraldine San...

02/09/2023

I have developers looking to acquire land to redevelop. If you and your neighbours have an assembly or collective in the following neighbourhoods, please reach out to me-- Brock, Kamloops, Coquitlam or Nanaimo, Saanich, Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, give me a call at (604) 764-6873 or email: [email protected]. You may also want your Realtor to call me directly. This communication is not meant to induce or solicit an existing contract.

03/31/2022

The key concept in land assembly is , “highest and best use”.

The photo below shows a property in purple, which has an application to the city to build a triplex on the property. The latest NCP however allows more density for this area, allowing townhouses to be built. For townhouses to be built, developers are looking for at least 40,000 square feet.

This is what I call "blocked". In other words, once the owner builds a triplex on the property, the other neighbouring properties will find it more difficult to sell to a developer looking for townhouses to be built.

Call me to find out more! A free land assembly seminar is scheduled for October, 2022 by Zoom. To register, please text me with your name @ (604) 764-6873.

05/05/2021

I'm presently working with developers looking for townhouse sites, vacant raw land, acreage, development land, under the radar assemblies of at least 1 acre. If you have a site in Burnaby, East Vancouver, Cambie Corridor, Langley, Surrey, Richmond, please let me know. Call or text me (604) 764-6873.

12/14/2020

https://www.altusgroup.com/data/insights/overall-numbers-down-in-vancouver-commercial-real-estate-market/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ds-can-cm-news-12-20

11/14/2020

Land Assembly in Vancouver Island-- Are you and your neighbours interested in selling to a developer? Find out if your property is an archaeological site first, before digging! To read more, go to www.LandAssembly.me/blog.html

11/04/2020

If you are thinking about selling your home in a land assembly, here is some information, insights and opinion by Altus on construction costs and challenges developers have during Covid-19 pandemic in the short, medium and long term. Will you have to wait longer for a developer to purchase your land assembly? There are a lot of challenges that developers face including labour, trade and product shortages that impact cost to develop.

What impacts will COVID-19 have on hard construction costs and escalation in the short, medium and long-term?

09/12/2020

https://blog.remax.ca/canadian-housing-market-outlook/

Canadian housing market expected to remain active for the remainder of 2020 due to pent-up demand and low inventory levels, say RE/MAX brokers and agents Canadians showing more interest in suburban and rural homes for sale, as work and life dynamics shift Canadian housing prices anticipated to incre...

09/07/2020

September 19, 2020 Seminar on Land Assembly is Postponed due to Covid-19. We will post a possible Zoom Meeting at a later date. For more information, contact me!

09/01/2020

OCP, Location, Zoning, FAR make up a land assembly's valuation. Sometimes, you can look at your BC Assessment for land values to determine the price of your land assembly. I have seen BC Assessments higher than market value to reflect future zoning and redevelopment values. (Image 1). There are other times, however, where I have seen land values that do not reflect land assembly land values (Image 2). To determine which values apply to you, give me a call at (604) 764-6873 today.

05/18/2020

Watching Stuart Little on TV this morning. Stuart's house is not using 'highest and best use' practices in real estate--its neighbouring structures are high rise apartments.