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Kamloops, British Columbia has embraced the strata form of ownership since the early 1970s, when the first KAS-series strata plans—“KAS” being the official prefix for a Kamloops Land Title District Strata Plan filed on paper—were registered with the Kamloops Land Title Office. Today, hundreds of apartment, townhouse, bare-land and mixed-use developments operate under the Strata Property Act. Because every active strata corporation must commission a Depreciation Report every five years (or sooner for new EPS-series plans, where “EPS” stands for Electronic Plan Strata), providers of Depreciation Reports remain in steady demand across Kamloops.
Most strata corporations in Kamloops are residential. They are concentrated in neighbourhoods such as Sahali, Aberdeen, North Shore, Sun Rivers and the downtown core, where medium- and high-density zoning encourages multi-family construction. Commercial and industrial stratas are fewer and tend to cluster around Tranquille Road, the Southgate light-industrial corridor and Mount Paul Industrial Park, where strata-titled shop bays, warehouses and office condos provide small-business space. To date, there is no authoritative public dataset that breaks down the exact counts of residential, commercial or industrial strata corporations inside city limits, as municipal open-data inventories list parcels rather than corporations.
Bare-land strata subdivisions—often single-family or duplex enclaves—appear in newer hillside suburbs such as Juniper West, Pineview Valley and parts of Westsyde. Traditional building stratas dominate downtown and the Thompson Rivers University precinct, while tower-style developments remain rare; Kamloops’ tallest strata buildings top out at roughly sixteen storeys, keeping them in the medium-rise category rather than high-rise. City policy does not separately track tower, high-rise or low-rise counts, so those figures are unavailable.
Looking ahead, KAMPLAN 2040 and the 2020 Housing Needs Assessment forecast that almost forty-six per cent of all new dwellings to 2039 will be medium- or high-density multi-family units—virtually all of which will form new strata corporations that require a Depreciation Report. Coupled with provincial legislation mandating Depreciation Reports for corporations created after 1 July 2024, the next decade should see a marked increase in Depreciation Report activity throughout Kamloops. In the wider property market, strata-titled homes already account for roughly one-third of the city’s dwelling stock; that share is expected to keep climbing as available greenfield land for detached housing diminishes.