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Real Estate in the Time of Covid: Most Covid restrictions off; the market trending downward.

July 9th, 2021
For the third month in a row, the sales in Greater Vancouver have decreased from the prior month, while continuing to be strong when viewed in terms of the 10 year averages. April was down 14% from March; May was down a further 13% when compared to April; and now we have the numbers for June: down 11.9% from the sales recorded in May. While this downward trend may be troubling for some seller ...

Real Estate In the Time of Covid: The market has shifted: May 2021 sales down 13% from April; April 2021 sales were down 14% from March 2021

June 4th, 2021
Home buyers continued to buy homes at a pretty good rate last month. However, while May sales were 27.7% higher than the 10 year average for May, we saw the second month in a row where sales declined significantly from the prior month: May sales were down 13% from April and April was already down 14% from March 2021.  We saw the highest recorded monthly sales for April in history; HOWEVER tha ...

Real Estate In the Time of Covid: A CHANGE maybe coming: April 2021 sales down 14% from March 2021

May 6th, 2021
Home buyers continued to buy homes at amazing rates last month. We saw the highest recorded monthly sales for April in history; HOWEVER sales were not as high as they were in March 2021. While April was still insanely good for sellers, sales were down SUBSTANTIALLY from last month. April 2021 sales were down 14 percent when compared to sales in March 2021. Over the last 10 days this slight s ...

BREAKING NEWS: Real Estate Market likely impacted if this goes ahead.

April 9th, 2021
As many of you know, in the past the implementation of the "mortgage stress test" had a significant negative impact on the real estate market. The stress test reduced the amount buyers could spend on homes and took some buyers out of the market altogether. This was just announced today https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/med/Pages/b20-nr.aspx A few hours ago, the Superintenden ...

Real Estate In the Time of Covid: Another Record Crushing Month!

March 4th, 2021
It can't last forever but it has lasted another month. February 2021 exceeded all expectations: the market has continued to be extremely hot due to low interest rates, lack of homes to meet buyer demand and strong desire on the part of buyers to get into or move up in the market. This buyer desire TO move during Covid seems to be colliding with a seller desire NOT TO move until after Covid. W ...

It's that time again: Property Assessments are in your mailbox!

January 19th, 2021
It's that time again: Property Assessments are in your mailbox!   The calls have started to come in: People have received their annual property assessments. Every year people ask what their property assessments mean. The key thing to note: Assessed values are not a reflection of market value.  Market value is what a buyer will pay; assessed value determines your taxes.  Assessed vs. Market ...

Real Estate In the Time of Covid: December 2020; 2020 Recap; and What Now?

January 6th, 2021
Well 2020 is over and I have to say I am not sure why people are so excited. We still have Covid; numbers are still not good; sadly people are still dying.... so 2021 has hope but so far it doesn't seem a lot better than 2020! On the real estate front, there have been a lot of predictions about what 2021 will hold for the market. Most of the "reputable" sources seem to think that we could see ...

Multiple Offers: the Lottery Win for Home Sellers

August 31st, 2020
Lately we have been receiving multiple offers on a number of properties in all price points. This happens when there are more buyers for a property than there are comparable properties to buy. The best thing about multiple offers is that they pretty much guarantee that sellers receive MORE than what the market value of their home should be AND fewer subjects: The Lottery Win.  In multi ...

Re: Real Estate in the time of Covid: Unusually great July... could we see a busy August?

August 11th, 2020
We have seen the market rebounding strongly the last few months and July continued that trend.   The supply/demand equation continues to favour sellers with buyers still wanting to buy, but the supply being much lower than buyers would like to see. We have continued to receive multiple offers on many properties-although in a lot of cases (unexpectedly) the offers still came in under asking ...

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