Can you explain sellers’ and buyers’ contractual obligations? Buyers and sellers with signed contracts that are legally binding have many contractual obligations. Here are a few examples. Included items The standard form, Contract of Purchase and Sale, contains this clause: “The Purchase Price includes any buildings, improvements, fixtures, appurtenances and attachments thereto, and all blinds,…
While still elevated, home sales and listing activity in Metro Vancouver has eased back from record setting pace seen earlier this year. REALTORS® registered 3,762 home sales on MLS® in June. That’s a +54% increase over this time last year and +18% over the 10 year average for the month of June. On the supply…
West Vancouver sales-to-active listings ratio (SAR) for June 2021 was 12.6% for detached homes, 22.9% for condo’s and 19.2% for townhomes. In contrast, North Vancouver was 45.5% for detached homes, 50.8% for condo’s and 80.8% for townhomes. Generally, analysts say downward pressure on home prices occurs when the ratio dips below 12 per cent for…
North Vancouver home sales totaled 120 in June 2021, a +42.9% increase from the 84 sales recorded in June 2020, and down -6.98% from the 129 homes sold in May 2021. NV May and June home sales were up +45% and +35% respectively from the 10 year monthly sales average. If you are up to…
In West Vancouver, there were 60 sales in the month of June. The sales to new listings ratio was 38% which represents a balanced market. For June 2021, the sales to total active listings percentage was 13%, an increase from 11% in June 2020. Sales for June 2021 were up by 17 units compared to…
Metro Vancouver’s housing market sets a steady, calmer pace to begin the summer season While still elevated, home sale and listing activity in Metro Vancouver* has eased back from the record-setting pace seen in March and April of this year. *Areas covered by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver include: Burnaby, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge,…
You can search for your next home in Metro Vancouver and across BC on Realtylink.org. Owned and operated by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, Realtylink.org gives you access to over 25,000 homes listed for sale on the MLS®. Realtylink.org features On Realtylink.org, you can: Search the most up-to-date data from the MLS® systems…
Strata corporations, strata owners, residents and strata council members can access online services through the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT). non-payment of monthly strata fees or fines; unfair actions by the strata corporation or by those owning more than half of the strata lots in a complex; uneven, arbitrary or non-enforcement of strata bylaws (such…
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OFSI) and the Minister of Finance, Canada’s banking regulators, tightened the rules around the mortgage stress test on June 1. Under the new requirements, all mortgage applicants must be able to afford their mortgage at an interest rate of 5.25 per cent or two per cent over…
This May saw steady home sale and listing activity in the Metro Vancouver* area, a shift back from the record-breaking activity seen in the earlier spring months. Metro Vancouver includes: Burnaby, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, South Delta, Squamish, Sunshine Coast, Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Whistler.…
