Saturday, November 3, 2012

5 year Benchmark up-dates

Based on the REBGV stats package the following areas have negative 5 year price changes.

Overall (Composite)

Bowen Island -7.3%
Maple Ridge -3.7%
Pitt Meadow -2.3%
Squamish -2.0%
Sunshine Coast -6.6%

SFH

Bowen Island -7.3%
Maple Ridge -1.2%
Sunshine Coast -6.7%
Whistler -3.8%

Townhouse

Maple Ridge -7%
Port Moody -1.1%
Squamish -2.4%


Apartments

Burnaby East -9.2%
Burnaby North -2.2%
Coquitlam -4.7%
Maple Ridge -10.8%
Pitt Meadows -12%
Port Coquitlam -11.8%
Port Moddy -5.6%
Squamish -12.7%
Tsawwassen 2.1%
West Vancouver -8.3%

A significant portion of Vancouver Real Estate is in recession. However there are still areas with appreciation. Eg West Van SFH - which is up 20% over 5 years, but there are special reasons (see the last comment someone put up on my last post) or East Van SFH up over 30% due to forced gentrification from Van West's high prices. I think Whistler's apartment numbers must be an aberrant number.

What I see is a Mexican stand-off in much of Vancouver, with the very high priced houses still selling but at a discount. 







10 comments:

  1. I had an interesting exchange at an open house in North Van yesterday. I asked the realtor if the owner would accept an offer 10-15% off asking price.

    Trying to steal it eh? he replied with a smirk.

    "And what is the seller trying to do? Skewer the buyer?" I asked. "Selling it for 50% more than he paid for it 4 years ago, without even having up-dated it. I showed him the " I showed him the listing from 4 years ago on my phone with the pictures looking identical.

    Wiped the smile off his face.

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  2. Only 1,800 jobs created nationwide.
    "BC recorded an overall loss in the number of jobs — the biggest downturn in the country, according to the Statistics Canada report."

    "the biggest loss came in B.C., which reported 10,900 fewer jobs."

    http://www.theprovince.com/Fewer+jobs+October+says+StatsCan/7489244/story.html#ixzz2BQKCsIUy

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  3. Bought 6 years ago for $500k+, acreage house in the Okanagan. Owner is now asking more than double of assessment value @$700k+. A lot of greed out there.

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  7. After only 2-1/2 months, the asking price drops $200k (-9.17%).
    MLS#: V966851
    Current BC assessed value is $2,011,000
    2012 August 16, listed for: $2,180,000
    2012 October 31, price reduced to: $1,980,000

    Its previous neighbor at house #3280 had better luck.
    On 2011-March-21, it was sold for $2,110,000, when its 2011 assessment value was $1,349,000 then. That was $761,000 above (+56.4% more than) the assessment value.

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