Low supply continues to limit Metro Vancouver home buyers
Reluctance amongst Metro Vancouver* home sellers is impacting sale and price activity throughout the region’s housing market.
Residential home sales in the region totalled 2,425 in February 2017. This is a 41.9 per cent decrease from the record 4,172 homes sold in February 2016 and an increase of 59.2 per cent compared to Janua ...
This past July, the British Columbia government unexpectedly slapped a 15% tax on any foreign national buying real estate in Metro Vancouver. This sudden move was designed to dampen the market for the steady inflow of offshore money – mainly Chinese – that has been blamed for Vancouver’s red-hot real estate market.
Some have speculated that Premier Christy Clark, who is running for ...
The Metro Vancouver housing market had its third highest selling year on record in 2016, behind only 2015 and 2005.
Sales of detached, attached and apartment properties in the region reached 39,943 in 2016, a 5.6 per cent decrease from the 42,326 sales recorded in 2015, and a 20.6 per cent increase over the 33,116 residential sales in 2014.
“It was an eventful year for real estate in Met ...
温哥华住房负担能力问题难以解决
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Demand for office, retail, and land reaches five-year high across the Lower Mainland
Demand for commercial real estate remained robust across all major categories in the Lower Mainland ...
Here you go! Fresh from the oven from the Mayor's office..I find it has a hard time to exercise this policy. It's more noise than anything. It will waste tax payer's money to monitor the whole process for this 10,800 empty homes. Among these properties, there are many homes worth land value only and require major update as well as some high end luxury properties which has very high rent ...
B.C. Premier trying to scare the Chinese buyers away, Ottawa does the opposite
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虽然我们的不列颠哥伦比亚省省长试图吓唬中国人在温哥华购买房地产，联邦政府在另一方面渴望吸引中国学生，游客和工作人员。加拿大目前有5个中国地 ...
Vancouverites will be the victim under the new New Foreign Home Buyers Tax
B.C real estate isn't short of colorful news so far this year. From shadow flipping, realtors misconduct, end to real estate self-regulation, vacancy tax to our newest most controversial New Foreign Home Buyers Tax all in the last couple of months. Well...we can tell all these measures were being implemented rec ...
Home buyers remain active across Metro Vancouver
Home buyers continue to compete for homes listed for sale across the Metro Vancouver housing market.
Residential property sales in the region totalled 4,400 in June 2016, an increase of 0.6 per cent from the 4,375 sales recorded in June 2015 and a decrease of 7.7 per cent compared to May 2016 when 4,769 homes sold.
Last month’s sales were 2 ...
