Price Trends in Your Neighbourhood

In this section you can find current price trends in your Vancouver neighbourhood, including current the amount of inventory, absorption rate, best selling price ranges, flexibility of list prices, highest and lowest priced properties

Follow the Buzz on Vancouver’s best and worst areas to live

by Maggie Chandler July 3, 2010 Local Market Data

Guest Post by Alexis Bonari

I don’t know about you but I rely heavily on the Internet community when making a decision about relocating. Unless you have a close friend you can really count on to give you a fair and unbiased impression of the area or family you trust, where can you get the information …

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What’s Selling Best in Vancouver Condos?

by Maggie Chandler November 4, 2010 Home Prices and Trends

I was a little bored doing the same old neighbourhood stats, so I decided to do something different. Here’s an overview of Vancouver west side condo market to see what price range is selling best, for how much, the average days on the market and average $psf and Sale price to list price ratio.

I’ve also broken …

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BC Home Sales Forecast to Rise Moderately in 2011

by Maggie Chandler November 11, 2010 Home Prices and Trends

The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its Fall Housing Forecast 2010 today.

BC Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales are forecast to decline 12 per cent from 85,028 units in 2009 to 74,950 units this year, before increasing 6 per cent to 79,700 units in 2011.

“Consumers are responding to a double-dip in mortgage interest …

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How is the Vancouver Real Estate Market in Yaletown?

by Maggie Chandler January 22, 2012 Price Trends in Your Neighbourhood

How is the Vancouver real estate market in Yaletown? Are sales up or down? Have listings increased? What’s the average price? How long does it take to sell a Yaletown property? What are prices doing? Are they higher or lower than 90 days ago? What price range is selling the best?

The Yaletown market in December …

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Greater Vancouver Real Estate Average Price Graph

by Maggie Chandler December 18, 2010 Home Prices and Trends

The graph for Greater Vancouver real estate shows the average price of Greater Vancouver homes, townhomes and condos. The graph shows the houses on the top, townhomes (middle) and condos (bottom) average price from 1977 to present. The Vancouver market peaked in 1981, 1989,1993 and 2008. Vancouver real estate didn’t appreciate much between 1994 and 2002 …

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Vancouver Real Estate Price Graphs November 2010

by Maggie Chandler December 16, 2010 How's The Market

Vancouver Reflections: Above are the November Vancouver (west side) real estate graphs for houses, townhouses and condos. Dollar Volume for all three categories has levelled. Listings for all categories continue to decline and are now equal to Feb/Mar this year. Sales for houses are up, sales for townhomes and condos are flat, compared to a year ago. House prices …

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Vancouver Real Estate Prices

by Maggie Chandler December 7, 2010 Home Prices and Trends

Vancouver real estate prices for November (vs. October) saw the waterfront condo neighbourhoods of coal harbour, downtown, false creek north, fairview, kitsilano, olympic village and the west end all with fewer listings and more sales, an increase in theaverage days on the market for sold properties, and a slight softening of the average sale price to list …

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Mainland Chinese Buyers and their Effect on Vancouver Real Estate

by Maggie Chandler December 1, 2010 How's The Market

by Jim Sutherland , The Globe and Mail, November 24,2010

This is an excellent read, an in depth study of Mainland Chinese buyers and Vancouver real estate. A must read! Following are the highlights.

Now that the forestry industry has been eclipsed and the place has a median household income that is only average by Canadian standards, …

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What next for Vancouver Real Estate Prices?

by Maggie Chandler November 9, 2010 How's The Market

1) Almost half of first-time homeowners in Canada say it’s now a buyers market, pointing to a pick up in activity in coming months, according to an online survey conducted by RBC. 43 per cent of those who intend to buy for the first time agreed. “That could be an indicator that there is higher …

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Vancouver Real Estate Average Price Graph

by Maggie Chandler November 8, 2010 Home Prices and Trends

The graph for Greater Vancouver real estate shows the average price of Greater Vancouver homes, townhomes and condos. The graph shows the houses on the top, townhomes (middle) and condos (bottom) average price from 1977 to present. The Vancouver market peaked in 1981, 1989,1993 and 2008. Vancouver real estate didn’t appreciate much between 1994 and 2002 …

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