South Vancouver Island Acreages For Sale
Land and Hobby Farms From Metchosin to North SaanichSouth Vancouver Island acreages for sale sit in a handful of places. Metchosin, the Highlands, East Sooke, the Malahat and the rural edge of Central and North Saanich hold most of them, and the Agricultural Land Reserve covers a large share of that ground. What you are allowed to build is the first question here, not the last.
The ALR decides more than zoning does. On reserve land the number of dwellings, the size of a second home and any non farm use are controlled provincially, and a municipal decision does not override that. I check ALR status and any non farm use approval before anyone talks about house plans.
Services are on you out here. Well yield, water quality, septic capability and the cost of running power to a building site are real numbers, not footnotes. A drilled well at 2 gallons a minute changes what 10 acres can ever become.
Access and title get complicated. Shared driveways, right of way agreements, forestry covenants and standing timber all turn up on these parcels. Read the plan and the charges closely, because acreage deals come apart on paperwork more often than on price.