Prices increased month-over-month for the first time since May 2022 Housing sales are up 77% from January; new listings are up just 5%. Multiple offers are being seen on Westside detached houses. Top townhouse market: New Westminster. Undersupplied North Vancouver is now a seller’s market. The last three years have been an anomaly for housing …
2023: the year to get in position for the recovery January 2023 signalled early that it would end with what the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says is “among the lowest sales month in recent history.” As of mid-month, total transactions had reached just 334 properties, well below the 795 in mid-December 2022 or …
Highlights of the January 2023 Metro Vancouver Rent Report released by rental listing site @liv.rent: Since January 2022, the average rent for an unfurnished, one-bedroom unit in Metro Vancouver has increased by $430. For one-, two-, and three-bedroom unfurnished units, West Vancouver had the most expensive prices in the Metro Vancouver region this January. Furnished, …
Below is a summary of the government regulations that have been in place or have recently come into place in 2023. You can find the links to the resources behind them. If you are unsure whether these apply to you, please get legal or other professional advice. City of Vancouver Empty Homes Tax Starting in …
A year ends with a flourish and a new year begins with confidence. We will all remember the 2022 housing market as one of the most volatile that Metro Vancouver has ever seen, rising to unprecedented highs early in the year only to fall to a near 40-year low by December. Along the way the …
It’s Deja-vu as November sales mirror 2018 As Peter (Yogi) Berra famously said, “It’s Deja-vu all over again” but in this case it is in comparing Metro Vancouver’s housing market in November 2018 and what we are experiencing today. 2018, after all, was also a down market and that November’s housing sales across Greater Vancouver …
Positive signs emerge as buyers’ market strengthens Highlights of the October report Lowest benchmark home price: New Westminster at $809,800 Highest number of Greater Vancouver sales since June 2022 Benchmark home price is down 9.2% from six months ago North Vancouver average home prices up 8.5% from September West Side detached house sales highest in …
The worst of times; the best of times in the Metro Vancouver housing market Five markets have composite home prices under $1 million Home prices down for the sixth month in a row Detached housing now firmly in a buyer’s market Total residential sales in September test a 30-year low, but not as low as …
New listings, housing starts flirt with record lows in August Total new listings in August the lowest in more than 28 years Ladner townhouses and condos fall to 1-month supply At least six major condo projects have stopped or stalled this year Existing condos, townhouses can’t be replaced at their current value Surrey strata housing …
Homebuyers, investors take advantage in this market Average 5-year mortgage rates are up just 1.4% from six months ago. First-time homebuyers in B.C. are down 46% compared to a year ago. Foreign homebuyers now account for just 1% of Metro transactions. July benchmark detached house price is up $47,500 from January 2022. The number of …