If you want to know more about what’s happening with West Vancouver’s house market in order to navigate it with confidence, check out the video below showing the past 15 months activity for sales, new listings, inventory, months-of-inventory, sales-to-active listing ratio, sales-to-new listing ratio and prices.
Inventory remains low in Metro Vancouver while home sales dipped well below monthly historical averages in January. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential home sales in the region totalled 1,022 in January 2023, a 55.3 per cent decrease from the 2,285 sales recorded in January 2022, and a 21.1…
With interest rates and housing supply increasing, Metro Vancouver home buyers are operating in a changing marketplace to begin the summer season. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential home sales in the region totaled 2,444 in June 2022, a 35 per cent decrease from the 3,762 sales recorded in June…
Home buyer demand in Metro Vancouver* returned to more historically typical levels in April. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential home sales in the region totaled 3,232 in April 2022, a 34.1 per cent decrease from the 4,908 sales recorded in April 2021, and a 25.6 per cent decrease from…
If you are thinking of selling your home in the upcoming months find below a great infographic. It offers lots of tips on what you might tackle to get your home ready to list. The actions mentioned help to focus on how to make your home inviting, show it’s cared for, and enhance your curb…
One tool our real estate board uses to monitor supply and demand activity in the market is the sales-to-active listings ratio. When this ratio dips below 12% for a sustained period, it indicates the supply is outpacing the demand and prices typically decline as a result. When it surpasses 20% and for a sustained period,…
West Vancouver November residential real estate numbers shows interesting trends! WV detached homes and condo’s MLS® HPI Benchmark Price increased +15.6%,and +2.3% respectively from same month last year. Of WV’s 35 neighborhoods*, Ambleside had 27 of the 44 November WV house sales. Balance of houses sales sprinkled throughout the other WV neighbourhoods. *Altamont, Ambleside, Bayridge,…
Several factors influence the housing market, including mortgage interest rates, inflation, employment, investment, construction, immigration, government assistance programs, and the health of local and world economies. All of these influence the supply and demand of the market which, in turn, affects prices. There are three classifications experts use to describe the balance of supply and…
The past 18 months has been like no other for Metro Vancouver’s housing market! A steady recovery was well underway when the pandemic put the housing market and the rest of the economy into a lockdown in March of 2020. This lockdown, however, was short lived. To the surprise of many, home sales and, shortly…
