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  1. Pace of New Home Price Growth Quickens in Vancouver: StatCan

    New housing price index steepens its growth rate in city and across BC, leading the country’s monthly increase, says statistics agency Joannah Connolly Other New home prices in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) increased again in September, picking up the pace of annual growth compared with last month, according to Statistics Canada data published […]

  2. Demand, not buyer origin, key to Vancouver market: CMHC

    Peter MithamVan. Courier Vancouver house prices are on track to post a 10.4 per cent increase this year over last, but the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) attributes the gain to the kinds of homes changing hands, not the participants in the market. “One of the key things that’s been going on in Vancouver […]

  3. Average Vancouver home price increases almost 16% over past year

    Repeat sales prices up 10% Emma Crawford HampelVan. Courier Vancouver home prices continued to grow in October, with the average sale price increasing 15.6 per cent over the past year and the repeat sale prices increasing 9.83 per cent. The average sale price for all home types in Greater Vancouver was $947,334 in October, up […]

  4. BC housing demand will ease but still remain high

    Steve RandallOther There will be an easing of the growth in home sales in British Columbia in 2016 but the market will continue to be stronger than average. This year has been booming with the BC Real Estate Association expecting full-year sales of above 100,000 units to hit the third highest on record. It will […]

  5. Housing Demand to East but Remain Elevated in 2016

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  6. Canada’s consumers owe $1.8 trillion as mortgages soar

    Steve RandallOther New figures from one of Canada’s largest banks and mortgage lenders shows the continuing growth of household debt. RBC’s report reveals that total consumer debt is now $1.8 trillion (at the end of September) with mortgages contributing the lion’s share of the increase. There has been a five per cent growth in debt […]

  7. Foreign investors may be buying majority of west-side Vancouver homes

    Ryan SmithOther A recent academic study shows that the majority of single-family homes purchased in Vancouver’s tony west-side neighbourhoods were likely bought by foreign investors. An academic study by city planner Andy Yan found that 70% of buyers of single-family homes in Vancouver west-side neighbourhoods were likely from mainland China. The study used methodology commonly […]

  8. Canadian city property prices among world’s most inflated

    CREOther Investors in the Vancouver property market are at risk of price correction in the near future, according to a report released by UBS at the end of last week. According to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index, Vancouver has some of the most over-valued property prices in the world. Only London, Hong Kong […]

  9. Market for Vancouver apartment buildings is ‘unrelenting’

    Ryan SmithOther Home prices in the Vancouver area are already Canada’s highest, with the average price for a single-family detached home hitting $1.58 million in October. But the apartment market is “unrelenting” as well, according to a veteran realtor. There were 73 apartment sales in the first six months of 2015 – a 20% spike […]

  10. Rhythm at 3281 East Kent Avenue 115 homes in two buildings by Polygon

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