Buying & Selling

Market Highlights For February 2023

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 …

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Market Highlights For January 2023

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 …

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Market Highlights For November 2022

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 …

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Market Highlights For October 2022

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 …

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Market Highlights For August 2022

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 …

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Market Highlights For July 2022

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 …

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Market Highlights For June 2022

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JUNE 2022 REPORT Biggest drop in month-over-month house price Port Coquitlam down 5.9% Biggest increase in month-over-month house price: West Vancouver, up 0.4% Total housing starts are down 45% so far this year compared to 2021, at 24,531. Composite home price in Greater Vancouver is $186,900 higher than in June 2020 It …

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Market Highlights For May 2022

Highlights of the May 2022 report Is a buyer’s market looming in Metro Vancouver?  Vancouver detached house sales down 42% year-over-year Fraser Valley sales drop 54% from a year earlier Stress test increased on June 1: could touch near 7% There are more than 16,000 homes now listed for sale in Metro Vancouver (10,400 in …

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