These two Downtown streets are only 10 minutes apart; but you’ll pay five times more for an apartment on one of them – View Average Price per Sqft for All Downtown Buildings KEY TAKEAWAYS: The most expensive stretch of Downtown Vancouver apartments is on West Cordova at $2000-$3500 per square foot A couple of the […]
In this article, we use Sold MLS real estate data to uncover which Vancouver neighbourhoods are a better investment over-time and which Vancouver neighbourhoods depreciate the most when looking at the condo market. Home investments can be the difference between early retirement and late retirement for Vancouver Home Buyers. Like anything, homes depreciate with age […]
How much would you pay in order to live on the 50th floor of a high-rise? We estimate that you have to pay almost twice the price of an equivalent unit on the 10th floor or 2.7 times the price on the first floor. Would you pay twice, three-times or quadruple the price to live […]
The most walkable Vancouver neighborhoods: Figure 1: The average walk score for each Vancouver neighborhood The most walkable Vancouver neighborhood’s: What does this mean? A walk score is a score given to every listing calculated by analyzing the distance between its particular location and nearby routes and amenities. For example, homes that are closer to […]
In this article, we interview four of the most prolific realtors in Metro Vancouver on how they climbed out of the top 50% list in 2015 and into the top 5% list in 2018. The world was a lot different in 2015. Barack Obama was still President of the U.S. Justin Trudeau was just […]
What is Vancouver’s real estate market like for the top three realtors? To better understand the current Vancouver housing market situation, we compared the data from the top three Vancouver realtors that had the most number of sales in 2016 with their number of sales in 2019 for West Vancouver and East Vancouver (Figure 1 […]
In comparing 2016 to 2019, the average days on the market (DOM) for a home listed on Vancouver’s housing market is lasting doubled. This means that some Vancouver neighbourhoods will struggle in 2019-2020. Data compiled by Roomvu, a Vancouver-based real estate marketing and analytics firm, shows that the days on the market has nearly doubled […]
According to Roomvu market analytics, the number of realtors in Metro Vancouver has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. And though Vancouver’s housing market isn’t the only burning-hot one in the country, numbers from a recent report show that B.C.cities has, by far, the highest concentration of realtors per Canadian city. A study by […]
Introduction The percentage of completed dual agency in real estate transactions in Greater Vancouver has dropped dramatically. This is to be expected. The Real Estate Council of British Columbia, as of June 15th, 2018, barred licensed real estate professionals from representing both the buyer and the seller in a transaction. The main reason for this […]
Why are Vancouver realtors listing fewer properties? If you live in the Greater Vancouver Area, chances are you know a realtor or two in your life. Whether it’s your cousin, uncle, parent, sibling, friend, odds are you aren’t too many degrees of separation away from someone who makes their living selling houses. Back in 2004, […]
