Our local real estate board reports ‘balanced conditions come to the Metro Vancouver housing market for the holiday season’. With one month left in 2023, a steady increase in housing inventory is offering home buyers across Metro Vancouver among the largest selection to choose from since 2021. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)…
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver housing market remains resilient in the face of challenging economic conditions. Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed an increase in home values, amounting to $31,351 since June. This brings the average home price in Greater Vancouver to $1,301,970, marking a noteworthy year-over-year increase of $62,063. Among the…
Metro Vancouver housing market holds steady in October. An increase in newly listed properties is providing more choice to home buyers across Metro Vancouver, but sales remain below long-term averages. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential sales in the region totaled 1,996 in October 2023, a 3.7 per cent increase…
How do we actually know what property values are doing at any given point in time? If you think about it for a second, it’s a tricky question to answer. To start, every property in the market isn’t trading hands on a microsecond basis like the stock market, and the long timelines between sales of…
Turning short-term rentals into homes for people is at the core of newly introduced B.C. legislation to regulate the rapidly expanding short-term rental market. “Anyone who’s looking for an affordable place to live knows how hard it is, and short-term rentals are making it even more challenging,” said Premier David Eby. “The number of short-term…
None of us have a foolproof crystal ball. If we did, we might all have bet on Sidney Crosby scoring the golden goal in 2014 and cashed out with some big bucks! When it comes to real estate markets and what we might see over the next few years, history can generally provide some great…
Royal LePage just released its National House Price Survey for the 3rd Quarter of 2023. For Greater Vancouver it reports the aggregate price of a home remained relatively flat year over year, increasing just 0.1 per cent to $1,251,900 in the third quarter of 2023. On a quarterly basis, however, the aggregate price of a…
If you own residential property and are not an excluded owner of the residential property, you must file a UHT2900 Underused Housing Tax Return and Election Form. This includes persons that have a corporation or a trust, including a bare trust arrangement or are a partner in a partnership which owns residential property in Canada.…
Searching for homes on Realtylink and Realtor.ca you may notice their list price may be different than the value assessed by BC Assessment (BCA). Both BCA assessors and REALTORS® calculate market value by analyzing sales of comparable homes within a local market, and look at factors that affect value such as size of home, view,…
If you’re thinking of making a move, one of the biggest questions you probably have right now: what’s happening with West Vancouver home prices? September MLS® House Price Index for detached homes was $3,281,800, up: +0.2% from August, +0.2% same month a year ago, +17.8% 3 years and +12% from 5 years ago. Glance through…
