Wise Property Management · Victoria
Airbnb Management Victoria.
For The Home You Live In.
Victoria licenses short term rentals in your principal dwelling only, and caps a whole home at 160 nights a year. The licence is cheap. The cap is the whole business case, and it is what the calendar gets managed against.
Victoria permits short term rentals only in your principal dwelling. The business licence is $150, a whole home stay is capped at 160 nights a calendar year, and you may rent no more than two bedrooms while living there. Wise Property Management handles the annual re-application and the operation at twenty percent of net.
Night Cap
Whole unit, per calendar year, while you are away.
Business Licence
Per year. Re-applied for, not renewed, every January.
Bedrooms
The most you may rent while you are living in the home.
Provincial Tax
8% PST and 3% MRDT on the stay.
What Victoria Actually Requires
Four rules decide whether a property can operate at all. Every figure here was read off the City of Victoria and Province of BC sites on 15 September 2026 and is cited at the bottom of this page.
It Has To Be Where You Live
Verbatim from the City: short term rentals are only permitted in your principal dwelling unit. Two shapes are allowed: the whole home while you are away, or up to two bedrooms with shared living space while you are home. There is no third option.
City of Victoria and Province of BC
One Hundred And Sixty Nights
A whole unit may be rented for no more than 160 nights in a calendar year. That is the ceiling on the business and it is the number the calendar is managed against. Model on 160, never on 365.
Whole unit stays only
It Is A Re-Application, Not A Renewal
The licence costs $150 and the term runs 16 January to 15 January, not the calendar year. Every year you file a fresh application, including fresh strata consent. Operating past the term is a $500 set fine.
Re-application handled under management
Eleven Percent In Tax
Eight percent PST and three percent Municipal and Regional District Tax on the stay. Collected on the booking and remitted. It is not revenue and it never lands in your net.
Tracked and remitted under management
Victoria In Public Data
Two figures from public registers and national statistics, both under open licences that permit this use. Neither is a revenue number.
Of the housing stock, 2021
1,597 of 178,367 dwellings in the Victoria census metropolitan area were short term rentals that could otherwise house someone long term. This is the number the rules on this page exist because of.
Statistics Canada, 2021
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Short-term rentals in the Canadian housing market, Catalogue no. 11-621-M2024010, 2024. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. The Statistics Canada figures are for the 2021 reference year, which is the most recent published in that study. They are a housing supply measure and not a revenue estimate, and nothing on this site estimates what a property earns.
What I Run In Victoria
One team instead of three vendors pointing at each other. Twenty percent of net revenue, month to month, no onboarding fee and no monthly minimum.
Guest Communication
Fast responses, pre arrival messaging, check in support and full stay coverage, on the same clock as every property under management. You never have to answer a guest.
Turnover Management
Scheduling, quality control, laundry and staging on every reset, with photo proof filed against the property. Outside Calgary the crew is local, vetted and run to the CleanStays standard.
Issue Coordination
Maintenance, access problems and urgent requests routed to a vetted local trade and quoted before any work happens. Nothing gets done and then billed.
Listing And Rate Strategy
Photography direction, title, description and amenity strategy, plus pricing and review management. In a capped market the calendar is managed for rate, not for occupancy.
Registration And Tax Admin
Registration, annual renewal, the licence number displayed on the listing, and accommodation tax tracked and remitted. The part owners forget until the city writes to them.
What Is Different About Victoria
The three things that catch owners here, and the one I will not pretend about.
Strata Consent Expires Every Year
Strata consent is not a one time approval. It has to be supplied fresh with every annual application. A strata that says yes this January can say no next January and end the operation, with no appeal, no refund and no notice period you can plan around.
The Cap Is The Business, Not The Fee
At $150 the licence is the cheapest in any market I run in, which makes it the least interesting number on the page. 160 nights is what decides whether the property is worth operating, and filling those nights cheaply is the fastest way to waste them.
Calgary Crews Do Not Drive To Victoria
CleanStays and Wise Property Services are Calgary companies with Calgary crews. In Victoria I manage the property and coordinate vetted local cleaning and trades against the same written standard. Said plainly here rather than implied everywhere else.
Why Guests Book Victoria
Demand here runs longer through the year than most Canadian cities. These are the drivers a listing is positioned against.
The Inner Harbour
The Parliament Buildings, the Empress and the harbour walk. Victoria is a walking city, and a listing inside the Inner Harbour ring prices on that alone.
Butchart Gardens
The gardens run a full programme across all four seasons, which is a large part of why this city has a real shoulder season instead of a summer.
Museums And The Legislature
The Royal BC Museum and the Parliament Buildings anchor the wet months. Rain is a booking driver on this coast, not a problem.
The Legislature And Government Travel
Victoria is the provincial capital, which gives it a weekday business and government travel base that most resort towns do not have. That flattens the week rather than the year.
Victoria Questions
Yes, if the property is your principal dwelling unit. Victoria permits two shapes only: renting the whole home while you are away, or renting up to two bedrooms with shared living space while you are home. An investment property you do not live in cannot be licensed, and no management company can change that.
While you are away, you may rent your entire unit for no more than 160 nights in a calendar year in Victoria. That is a hard ceiling and it is the single most important number for the business case. Renting up to two bedrooms while you are living in the home is governed by the two bedroom limit rather than by the night cap.
The City of Victoria charges $150 for a Short-Term Rental Business Licence. The term runs from 16 January to 15 January of the following year, not the calendar year, and it must be re-applied for at the start of each year rather than simply renewed. Operating without a valid licence carries a $500 set fine.
Yes, and every year. Victoria requires strata consent to be provided with the annual licence application, not once at the beginning. A strata that consents in one year can decline in the next, which ends the operation. Confirm your strata bylaws and your council position before you furnish anything.
Eight per cent provincial sales tax and three per cent Municipal and Regional District Tax apply to short term accommodation in Victoria. Both are collected on the booking and remitted. Neither is revenue and neither appears in your net.
No. Wise Property Management is a Calgary company and it manages properties across Canada. In Victoria I run the property and coordinate vetted local cleaning and trades to the same written standard used in Calgary. The in house crews, CleanStays and Wise Property Services, are Calgary only. That is said here rather than discovered later.
Twenty percent of net revenue, month to month, with no onboarding fee and no monthly minimum. Cleaning is billed to the guest as a turnover fee rather than to you, and maintenance is quoted before any work happens. The fee is the same in every market.
Send Me The Victoria Property
Three short steps. It takes about a minute, and it tells me enough to price the opportunity before we speak.
Got it.
I read every one of these myself. You will hear back with what the property should earn against the Victoria rules and what it would take to run it.
Where These Numbers Come From
Every figure on this page, checked 15 September 2026. Rules change. Confirm against the City and the Province before you list.
Short Term Rentals, City of Victoria
City of Victoria. The principal dwelling test, the $150 licence, the 160 night cap, the two bedroom limit, the annual re-application and the strata consent requirement.
Read it at the source
Ticket Bylaw No. 10-071
City of Victoria. Schedule GG set fines, including $500 for operating without a valid licence and $250 for advertising without the licence number.
Read it at the source
PST On Accommodation
Province of BC. The eight per cent PST on accommodation and the Municipal and Regional District Tax.
Read it at the source
Registration, night caps and accommodation tax are set by the municipality and change. Confirm the current rules, and your own condominium declaration or lease, before you list. Nothing here is legal advice.
One Hundred And Sixty Nights.
Make Them Count.
Confirm your strata consent, then tell me the building and the bedroom count. You get back what it should earn against the cap and what it would take to run it.