Blog Posts - Metro Vancouver Real Estate

With property prices on the up in Vancouver, the time when we were wowed by news of million-dollar homes is long gone. However, this Shaughnessy home has just hit the market for $35 million – a figure that does set it apart from the rest. Liste...

A home is usually one of our biggest financial assets. It’s also an emotional asset, tied to memories, experiences and relationships. When it comes to retirement planning, it’s often difficult to decide what to do with that asset. There i...

Prospective homebuyers who stayed home in the darker days of winter and spring appear to have come out in July’s summer sun, pushing a boost in sales across the Lower Mainland. For the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, July was the hottes...

The average price of a home in Vancouver has gone up, as the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley resale housing markets recorded some gains last month. That’s according to a Conference Board of Canada report on Tuesday that revealed home sales ro...

Greater Vancouver’s housing market is showing early signs of a revival in sales, an uptick that bodes well for the bellwether market and the rest of the country. In June, sales surged 11.9 per cent in Greater Vancouver compared with June, 2012,...

What do you have when house values dip slightly and sales remain below historical averages? You have “balanced” market conditions, according to the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver real estate boards. The boards reported Wednesday that...

Home sales in the Vancouver area were up 11.9 per cent in June compared with a year ago, according to the latest MLS figures. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says there were 2,642 homes sold through its Multiple Listing Service last month,...

Not so fast. The purported collapse of Canada’s housing market does not appear to be in sight, and any correction down the road could likely be a mild one. Recent data have defied warnings from market watchers of an impending plunge – cau...

Home sales increased in May for the first time since September 2011, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported Tuesday. The year-over-year increase is small at just one per cent, and the number of sales is still 19.4 per cent below the 10-y...

The high costs of development could be helping to drive up housing prices in the city of Vancouver, figures provided to The Vancouver Sun by the Urban Development Institute show. Various city development fees, community amenity charges and sustainabi...

People are still shying away from investing in Vancouver real estate, April sales numbers show. This April’s sales were the lowest April total since 2001 and 20.9 per cent below the 10-year sales average for the month, the Real Estate Board of...

BestHomesBC.com has launched a new and unique way to compare recent property sales in Metro Vancouver. Simply visit this page on BestHomesBC.com and zoom in on the area and street of your choice. The information is updated on a regular basis so it...

Real estate has been slumping in the Lower Mainland, with sales volumes off by a third from long-term averages and prices down about five per cent from their peak. Central 1 Credit Union is predicting a slow, weak recovery for real estate in British...

The slowdown in the Metro Vancouver real estate market continued in February, with sales nearly one-third below the 10-year average, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported Monday. Home sales in the region have been trending below histori...

The housing market continues to cool off in the Lower Mainland, as the number of home sales dropped to 10-year lows in the Vancouver area and average sale prices dipped across the region. Year-over-year sales decreased nearly 29 per cent, from 2,360...

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