Court allows executed man’s widow to sell Vancouver home [Video]

A murder in China and a civil lawsuit in B.C. have been preventing the sale of multiple Vancouver homes, but one of them could soon hit the market after a court ruling.

The home in question – a six-bedroom, six-bathroom house on West 33rd Avenue with more than 4,000 square feet of living space across two storeys and a finished basement – is valued at just under $5 million by BC Assessment. 

In a decision issued Thursday and published online Friday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nigel P. Kent ruled that a certificate of pending litigation (CPL) registered against the property’s title could be discharged to allow its owner to sell, as long as the CPL is re-registered against any new property she buys with the proceeds.

Businessman ‘brutally murdered’

The owner of the property is Li Juan Chen, also known as Lijuan Chen. According to Kent’s decision, she purchased the home with her husband Ke Qing Ni in December 2010, …