Vancouver, BC – June 15, 2011. The
British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that Multiple
Listing Service® (MLS®) residential unit sales in the province edged down one
per cent to 7,857 units in May compared to the same month last year. The average
MLS® residential price climbed 20 per cent to $596, ...
Average home price in Canada in April according to Canadian Real Estate Association was $372,000, up 8 percent from April 2010. In Vancouver average price in April was $815,000, up 21 percent from same month last year.
Vancouver has emerged out the other side of the dark recession and is on track to have one of the great downtowns of the world, Mayor Gregor Robertson told a packed business luncheon Thursday.
Pointing to a rash of commercial building projects and a dramatic spike in building permits, Robertson said Vancouver is finished with what he called “the gut-wrenching days” of t ...
In the last two months, we've sold over 700 condos in Toronto. Sixty per cent went to Mainland Chinese buyers. In meccas like Richmond, 98 per cent of the hundreds of homes we've sold are to buyers who are Chinese. Even in White Rock, we sold 35 per cent of a new condo tower to buyers from Mainland China. For a new market like White Rock, that's a shocking number.
Vancouver, BC – April 18, 2011. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in the province continued to climb higher in March. Compared to March of 2010, MLS® residential unit sales increased 11.5 per cent to 8,600 units. The average MLS® residential price rose 1 ...
Activity in the Greater Vancouver housing market continued to strengthen in March with both the number of homes sold and added to the region’s Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) reaching near record levels.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residen ...
Mortgage Rate Outlook
Mortgage rates have thus far evolved in-line with our December 2010 forecast, with the 5-year fixed rate reaching 5.44 per cent and the 1-year rate hitting 3.50 per cent in mid–February. Mortgage spreads (the difference between a fixed mortgage rate and the yield on Government of Canada bonds) have returned to historically nor ...