Wise Property Management · Radium Hot Springs
Airbnb Management Radium Hot Springs.
The B.C. Market Investors Can Still Enter.
British Columbia closed almost every urban market to anyone who does not live in the unit. Radium Hot Springs is named in the regulation as exempt. A property you do not live in can be registered and run here, legally, and I already run one.
The Village of Radium Hot Springs is exempt from British Columbia’s principal residence requirement, named in Schedule 1 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation. A property you do not live in can be short term rented here. You still need to register with the provincial short term rental registry, which costs $450 a year for a property you do not live in and $100 where you do, and you need a Village of Radium Hot Springs STR Business Licence. Wise Property Management registers, lists and operates the property at twenty percent of net revenue.
Provincial Registry
Per year for a property you do not live in, plus a $1.50 service fee. Where you live in it, $100.
Provincial Sales Tax
PST on the sale of short term accommodation in British Columbia.
Strata Fine, Per Day
A strata can still ban short term rental outright and fine up to this amount daily. Registration does not override it.
Days
A booking longer than this is outside the provincial registry regime entirely.
What Radium Hot Springs Actually Requires
Four things decide whether a property can operate. Every figure here was read off the Province’s or the Village’s own site on 17 September 2026 and is cited at the bottom of this page.
The Principal Residence Rule Does Not Apply Here
The Village of Radium Hot Springs is named in Schedule 1, Exempt Land of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation and on the Province’s own list of exempt municipalities. An investment property is legal in this market, which is not true in Vancouver, Victoria or most of urban British Columbia.
Confirmed in the regulation, not in a summary of it
You Still Have To Register With The Province
Since 1 May 2025 every short term rental host in British Columbia must be registered with the provincial registry. It is $100 a year for a property you live in and $450 for one you do not, plus a $1.50 service fee. The exemption is from the residency rule, not from registration.
Registration and annual renewal handled under management
And With The Village
No person may carry on a short term rental business in the Village without a valid Village of Radium Hot Springs STR Business Licence, applied for with a self evaluation and attestation form. The Village says only that fees are defined in its Fees and Charges Bylaw and does not publish the amount online. I am not printing a fee I could not read. The Village office is on 250.347.6455.
Licence and attestation handled under management
Eight Percent Provincial Sales Tax
PST of eight percent applies to sales of short term accommodation in British Columbia. A municipal and regional district tax of up to three percent applies in participating areas. Whether Radium participates, and at what rate, is not published where I could confirm it, so only the PST is stated here.
Collected and remitted under management
What I Run In Radium Hot Springs
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 Radium
A resort village of a few thousand people inside a national park corridor does not behave like a city, and two of these will cost you money if you assume otherwise.
Your Strata Still Outranks Everything
The Province states plainly that strata corporations can ban short term rentals outright and fine up to $1,000 a day, and that a strata bylaw may be stricter than the Act. Provincial registration does not override a strata bylaw and never will. In a resort village where much of the inventory is strata, this is the first document to read, before the zoning and before the licence.
Confirm Your Zone With The Village, Not With This Page
The zoning bylaw reachable from the Village website is a 2022 combined draft and a 2024 amendment exists that I could not read. A district list taken from a draft is a list that can be wrong, and being wrong about your zone here is the most expensive mistake in this market. Call the Village and get it in writing before you buy.
It Is A Season, Not A Calendar
Demand in the Columbia Valley is driven by the hot springs, the park and the golf and ski seasons rather than by a business travel week. The rate strategy here is built around peaks and shoulders, not around filling Tuesdays, and a pricing tool left on autopilot will sell your best weeks cheaply.
Calgary Crews Do Not Drive To Radium Hot Springs
CleanStays and Wise Property Services are Calgary companies with Calgary crews. In Radium Hot Springs 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 Radium Hot Springs
This is a destination market. Demand comes from a small number of very strong drivers rather than a broad base.
The Hot Springs Themselves
The Radium Hot Springs pools sit in Sinclair Canyon inside Kootenay National Park and are the reason most guests search this village by name. Proximity to the pools is the single strongest line in a Radium listing title.
Kootenay National Park
Radium is the west gate. Marble Canyon, the Paint Pots and the Banff to Radium corridor drive a summer touring pattern of one and two night stays on either side of a longer trip.
A Legislated Resort Municipality
Radium is one of fourteen municipalities named under the Province’s Resort Municipality Initiative, a designation given on the basis of tourism economy rather than population. The Province classifies this village as a resort destination. That is the demand case, stated by someone other than me.
The Village Itself
A small village with a resident bighorn sheep herd, golf either side of the highway and the Columbia Valley beyond it. Guests book a village, not a postcode, and the listing has to read like somewhere rather than like a unit.
Radium Hot Springs Questions
Yes. The Village of Radium Hot Springs is named in Schedule 1, Exempt Land, of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation, and it appears on the Province’s own list of municipalities exempt from the principal residence requirement. British Columbia closed most urban markets to owners who do not live in the unit. This is one of the places it did not.
Yes. The exemption is from the principal residence requirement, not from registration. Since 1 May 2025 all short term rental hosts in British Columbia must be registered with the provincial registry. It is $100 a year for a property you live in and $450 for one you do not, plus a $1.50 service fee each time. Registration and renewal are handled for you under management.
The Village does not publish the amount online. Its business licensing page states that no person may carry on a short term rental business in the Village without a valid STR Business Licence, and that fees vary and are defined in its Fees and Charges Bylaw. The documents carrying the figure are on the Village document portal and could not be read, so rather than print a number I cannot trace, this page leaves it blank. The Village office is on 250.347.6455 and it is confirmed during onboarding.
Confirm that with the Village directly and get it in writing. The zoning bylaw document reachable from the Village website is a 2022 combined draft, and a 2024 zoning amendment exists that could not be read. Publishing a district list from a draft bylaw would be worse than publishing nothing, because being wrong about your zone is the one mistake in this market that cannot be undone after a purchase.
No, and this is the most important sentence on the page for a strata owner. The Province states that strata corporations can have bylaws that limit or ban short term rentals outright and can levy fines of up to $1,000 a day, and that a strata bylaw may be more stringent than the provincial legislation. Provincial registration does not override it. Read the strata bylaws before anything else.
Eight percent provincial sales tax applies to sales of short term accommodation in British Columbia. A municipal and regional district tax of up to three percent applies in participating areas, but whether Radium participates and at what rate could not be confirmed from a government source, so no MRDT rate is stated on this page. The PST is collected and remitted as part of management.
No. Wise Property Management is a Calgary company and it manages properties across Canada, including in Radium Hot Springs. Here 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 Radium Hot Springs 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 Radium Hot Springs rules and what it would take to run it.
Where These Numbers Come From
Every figure on this page, checked 17 September 2026. Rules change. Confirm against the Province and the Village before you list.
Principal Residence Requirement
Province of British Columbia. The list of municipalities exempt from the principal residence requirement, which names Radium Hot Springs.
Read it at the source
Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation, B.C. Reg. 268/2023
The regulation itself. Schedule 1, Exempt Land, names the Village of Radium Hot Springs. Schedule 4 carries the administrative penalties.
Read it at the source
Short-Term Rental Legislation And Registry
Province of British Columbia. The 1 May 2025 registration requirement and the registry fees.
Read it at the source
Short-Term Rental Bylaws For Stratas
Province of British Columbia. Stratas may ban short term rental and fine up to $1,000 a day, and a strata bylaw may be stricter than the Act.
Read it at the source
PST On Accommodation
Province of British Columbia. The eight percent PST on short term accommodation and the up to three percent MRDT in participating areas.
Read it at the source
Village Of Radium Hot Springs Business Licensing
Village of Radium Hot Springs. The STR Business Licence requirement and the statement that fees are defined in the Fees and Charges Bylaw rather than published on the page.
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.
Confirm The Strata And The Zone.
Then Send Me The Address.
Read your strata bylaws, get your zone in writing from the Village, then tell me the property and the bedroom count. You get back what it should earn against the real comparable set and what it would take to run it.