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The late real estate developer Robert Campeau’s home hit the market again Tuesday and, while it has the most expensive price tag in Canada of currently publicly-listed properties, the agent who will be marketing it worldwide doesn’t think the province’s foreign buyer tax will impact a sale.

The house at 68 The Bridle Path is listed for $35 million, up from the $25 million it was priced at two years ago when a sale was not completed, but this time Ontario’s non-resident speculation tax could hit an out-of-country buyer with an additional $5.25 million fee. At $35 million, the regular land transfer tax that everybody pays in the city of Toronto would be more than $1.7 million.

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“I think the 15 per cent tax has proved to be the cost of doing business,” said Barry Cohen, a broker with Re/Max Realtron, who has the listing.

Ontario brought in its foreign buyer tax in April as one of 16 measures to cool the housing market, a move that came in the wake of reports that would-be overseas buyers in Vancouver were eyeing the Toronto market after the British Columbia government brought its own 15 per cent additional land property transfer tax on foreigners in August 2016.