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Estate sales and clean-outs in Highlands.
Highlands is the smallest community we serve, with 2,480 residents, and 95.0% of its households live in single-detached houses, the highest share of any of the thirteen. Residents arrange garbage collection through private contractors. We hold estate sales, run online auctions and help with downsizing and clean-outs in Highlands. The first visit is a free walkthrough.
Highlands at a glance
- Residents
- 2,480 in 2021, the fewest of the 13 communities we serve
- Households in single-detached houses
- 95.0%, the highest of the 13
- One-person households
- 16.6%, the lowest of the 13
- Garbage collection
- Private contractors; GFL runs blue box recycling
How we help in Highlands
- Estate salesEverything priced, the house set up, and a staffed sale from the first buyer to the final payment.
- Online auctionsEvery item photographed, listed and sold to local bidders online, with every pickup supervised.
- Specialty itemsSilver, jewellery, art, coins, china and mid-century pieces, researched and sold where they sell best.
- Downsizing supportMoving to a condo or into care? We help decide what comes with you, what goes to family and what gets sold.
- Moving plansA floor plan for the new place, movers booked and supervised, and the new home set up before the first night.
- Estate cleanoutWe sell and donate first, then clear the rest: every room, the garage, the shed. Left broom-clean and ready to list.
- Executor supportWe secure the house, set aside papers and keepsakes, and deal with the contents while you deal with the paperwork.
- Contents buyoutOne written offer for everything, no sale days, and the house cleared in the same visit.
- Commercial liquidationBusiness liquidations and clear-outs, sold by online auction, buyout or both, and handed back clean on your date.
Garbage and recycling in Highlands
Highlands residents arrange garbage collection through private contractors, and GFL provides blue box recycling. The District’s page names Hartland and the Westshore sites as depots.
A Hartland visit starts at the public scale, where an attendant asks what you have, weighs the vehicle and directs you. You unload everything yourself, in closed-toed shoes, and keep children and pets in the vehicle. Langford’s Westhills Bus Exchange hosts a Beyond the Curb hub that takes electronics, batteries and light bulbs on weekends, from 9am to 4pm (as of November 2026). See Langford for its full list.
Donations near Highlands
The Westshore options start with Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore at 849 Orono Avenue in Langford. Its criteria list couches, chairs, dining sets, dressers and bed frames that are clean and in working order from a smoke-free, pet-free home, and exclude box springs, pianos and gas appliances. Final say on every item rests with the receiving team.
The Salvation Army Thrift Store leaves furniture and mattresses off its accepted list, and St. Vincent de Paul’s Langford store lists small furniture and working small appliances as items it wants. We sell and donate first, then clear whatever is left.
Questions from Highlands
Does Highlands collect garbage?
No. Highlands residents arrange garbage collection through private contractors, and GFL provides blue box recycling. Large items such as furniture, mattresses and appliances can go to the CRD’s Hartland depot. Because we sell and donate first, less of the house reaches the landfill.
Where can Highlands residents take electronics and paint?
The District’s page points to Hartland, where residents can drop TVs, computers, large and small appliances, up to 10 cans of paint and household hazardous waste at no charge, as of November 2026. Wooden furniture and mattresses are charged by weight. A clean-out sorts all of it out of the house, so you aren’t making the trips yourself.
What does it cost?
It depends on the house and what’s in it. After the free walkthrough you get a written estimate with every cost laid out, before you sign anything, and there’s no obligation.
Local details checked November 2026. Rules and fees change, so confirm with the source before you go:
- District of Highlands: garbage and recycling
- CRD: Hartland public drop-off depot and rates
- Habitat for Humanity Victoria: ReStore
- Habitat for Humanity Victoria: donation criteria
- Salvation Army Thrift Store: donations
- St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP): thrift stores
- St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP): donations
- Statistics Canada: 2021 Census age groups (98-10-0032-01)
- Statistics Canada: 2021 Census dwelling types (98-10-0041-01)
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Clearing a house in Highlands? Start here.
Call or email. We’ll look at the house with you and give you a written estimate, with no obligation.
(604) 802-4935victoriaestateliquidation@gmail.com