Wise Property Management · The Blue Mountains
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The Map Decides, Not You.
The Blue Mountains does not ask where you live. It asks where the property is. Inside the designated Exception Area a licence is available. Outside it, new licences have been frozen since 2023, and eighty dollars will tell you which one you own.
The Town of The Blue Mountains licenses short term accommodation by location rather than by residency. A Type A licence is available inside the designated Exception Area at $2,500 for two years. Outside it, new Type B licences are under a moratorium. Four percent accommodation tax applies.
Type A, Two Years
Inside the designated Exception Area, plus $305 in mandatory add ons.
Eligibility Inquiry
The cheapest way to find out whether an address can be licensed at all.
Accommodation Tax
Municipal Accommodation Tax on every stay under thirty days.
Unlicensed Penalty
Administrative monetary penalty for operating without a licence.
What The Blue Mountains Actually Requires
Four rules decide whether a property can operate at all. Every figure here was read off the Town of The Blue Mountains site on 15 September 2026 and is cited at the bottom of this page.
The Exception Area Decides It
A Type A licence covers short term accommodation inside the Town’s designated Exception Area. Type B covers everything outside it and new Type B licences are under a moratorium that has been in place since March 2023. Check the map before you buy.
STA Licensing By-law 2021-70
You Do Not Have To Live There
There is no principal residence requirement on a Type A, B or C licence. Only Type D, the bed and breakfast class, requires the premises to be your residence and the licensee on site between 23:00 and 07:00. An investment property has a route here.
Type D is the only residence class
Twenty Five Hundred, Two Years
Type A is $2,500 for a two year term, plus an $80 eligibility inquiry, a $60 application and a $165 fire safety inspection. A fire re-inspection is $340 and a second one is $490. Late renewal is $110.
Licence and renewal handled under management
Two Per Bedroom, Plus Four
Occupancy is two persons per bedroom and four additional persons, and the Town can reduce it on parking or fire safety grounds. Inadequate parking does not delay your licence, it cuts your revenue. A Parking Management Plan is required.
Town may reduce occupancy at its discretion
The Blue Mountains 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
662 of 5,007 dwellings in the Town of The Blue Mountains 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 The Blue Mountains
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 The Blue Mountains
The two things that cost the most to learn late, and the one I will not pretend about.
Eighty Dollars Beats A Bad Purchase
The Town sells a Licence Eligibility Inquiry for $80. It is the cheapest thing on this page and it answers the only question that matters: can this address hold a licence. Pay it before you make an offer, not after you own a property outside the Exception Area.
The Penalty Is Administrative, Not Theoretical
Operating without a licence is a $2,500 administrative monetary penalty and advertising without one is $500, both published by the Town. Posting the listing before the licence issues is its own separate offence, which is a mistake owners make while waiting.
Calgary Crews Do Not Drive To Blue Mountains
CleanStays and Wise Property Services are Calgary companies with Calgary crews. In Blue Mountains 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 The Blue Mountains
Two seasons and a shoreline. These are the drivers a listing is positioned against.
Blue Mountain Resort
A winter and a summer operation on the same hill, with the village at the base. Distance to the village is the single biggest price lever on a listing here.
Georgian Bay
The shoreline from Thornbury through Craigleith carries the summer, and it is the reason this is a two season market rather than a ski market with a quiet half year.
Scandinave Spa
A year round, weather proof draw that fills the shoulder weeks between the hill closing and the bay warming up. Those weeks are where a Blue Mountains calendar is won or lost.
The Georgian Trail
Thirty two kilometres of rail trail from Collingwood through Thornbury to Meaford. Cycling and hiking demand runs from spring to late autumn, well past the swimming season.
The Blue Mountains Questions
It depends entirely on where the property is. A Type A short term accommodation licence is available inside the Town’s designated Exception Area. Outside that area a Type B licence is required, and the Town has had a moratorium on new Type B licences since March 2023. Existing Type B licences can still be renewed.
No, not for a Type A, Type B or Type C licence. The only class that requires it is Type D, the bed and breakfast class, which requires the premises to be the licensee’s residence and the licensee to be on site between 23:00 and 07:00. For every other class the Town regulates by zoning and location rather than by residency.
A Type A licence is $2,500 for a two year term. On top of that the Town charges an $80 Licence Eligibility Inquiry, a $60 application submission fee and a $165 fire safety inspection, so a first application is about $2,805 across two years. A fire re-inspection is $340 and a second one is $490, and late renewal is $110.
Occupancy under By-law 2021-70 is two persons per bedroom plus four additional persons, and the Town can reduce that figure on parking or fire safety grounds. A Parking Management Plan is required with every application except a condominium. Inadequate parking reduces your legal occupancy, which reduces what the property can earn.
The Town publishes an administrative monetary penalty of $2,500 for operating without a licence and $500 for advertising without one. Advertising is a separate offence, so posting a listing while an application is still in process carries its own exposure. By-law 2021-70 also provides for court fines of up to $50,000 on a first offence.
No. Wise Property Management is a Calgary company and it manages properties across Canada. In The Blue Mountains 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 The Blue Mountains 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 The Blue Mountains 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 Town before you buy or list.
Short Term Accommodation Licensing
Town of The Blue Mountains. The full fee schedule, the Type B moratorium, the administrative monetary penalties and the Parking Management Plan requirement.
Read it at the source
STA Licensing By-law 2021-70
Town of The Blue Mountains. The Type A to D definitions, the two persons per bedroom plus four occupancy rule, the Type D residence and on site conditions and the court fine range.
Read it at the source
Municipal Accommodation Tax
Town of The Blue Mountains. The four per cent rate and its application to short term rental accommodation booked through any platform.
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.
Pay The Eighty Dollars.
Then Send Me The Address.
Run the Licence Eligibility Inquiry before you make an offer. Then tell me the property and the bedroom count, and you get back what it should earn and what it would take to run it.