{"id":891854,"date":"2026-09-11T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:38:10","slug":"province-introduces-new-policy-for-selling-surplus-government-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891854\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Introduces New Policy for Selling Surplus Government Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/confed-confederation-building-st-johns-provincial-government.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Introduces New Policy for Selling Surplus Government Property\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The province has developed a new policy to guide the sale of surplus government-owned land and buildings. <\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, surplus properties will generally be sold via a public solicitation process.<\/p>\n<p>They will be offered through a competitive process, and will be expected to achieve fair market value. <\/p>\n<p>Government says all reasonable efforts will be made to notify previous owners of the land, but they will not receive preferential treatment, a first right or refusal, or advance notice of a public solicitation process. <\/p>\n<p>When land is purchased or expropriated, government says the former owners are compensated at that time. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the process, government may also establish minimum bid requirements, and may recover costs associated with evaluations related to the sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The province has developed a new policy to guide the sale of surplus government-owned land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-891854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}