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Real estate prices have risen dramatically in Vancouver — and not just for the living.

The cost of a burial plot at Mountain View Cemetery has gone up more than 200 times in the last 30 years; today the city-owned facility charges $25,000 for a body-sized piece of ground.

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“Cemetery space in Vancouver has a higher market value than in most of the rest of the country,” said manager Glen Hodges.

He said “record revenues” of $2.4 million were produced in 2015 from the sale of 75 graves.

“It has been higher-value spaces like caskets which have made the difference. We’re just starting to hit our stride since the caskets became available three years ago,” he said.

In-ground space isn’t the only revenue generator. Income also climbed from the sale of 415 receptacles for cremated remains, at a cost of about $4,000 each.

“The taxpayers own the cemetery and we’re trying to make sure it’s the users and customers who pay for it,” he said.