I write these for buyers who are choosing a mountain, a home, or both. Where a fact comes from a source, I link it, and I update the articles when the rules change.
Big White or SilverStar? The five questions I ask firstThe five questions I ask ski home buyers to decide between Big White and SilverStar: how you will use it, how far you want to be from a city, who skis, citizenship and rentals.What a ski score tells you about a mountain homeHow my address-level ski-in/ski-out score works: why walking distance matters, why scores are only compared within one resort, and why a low score is not always bad.The foreign buyer ban and B.C. ski resorts: where things standWhich B.C. ski resorts are covered by the federal ban on non-Canadian buyers, when it is scheduled to end, and what had and had not been decided as of late October 2026.
More questions? See the ski home buyer FAQ.