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The Union of B.C. Municipalities has published areportwith a list of recommendations to help cool Metro Vancouver’s over heated real estate market by going after speculators. Some of the suggestions include expanding the tax on foreign buyers to include pre-sale contracts for condos, and expanding the tax to other regions such as the Fraser Valley and Victoria. The report also says there is a need to close a range of tax-avoidance schemes, and recommends the province consider a seller’s tax that would penalize rapid speculative re-sale and target home “flipping.” Do you agree with the UBCM that more needs to be done to stop prices from soaring even higher?