As summer draws to an end, the Bowen Island market continues to show signs that it is stabilizing. Comparing year-over-year, many of the indicators in August 2019 are up over July 2019, including Average Price per Square Foot, Sale Price as a Per Cent of Original Price, Median Price, Average Price, and MLS® Home Price Index. The year-over-year Ave...
Increases in YoY dollar volume, number of sales, and average sale price from June is an encouraging sign that perhaps the market is beginning to stabilize, albeit well below the levels experienced during the Q2, 2018. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver REALTOR® Report Sales-to-Active Ratio shows Bowen Island to be in a balanced market (favo...
As we entered the summer of 2019, the real estate market on Bowen Island continued to adjust to downward pressure on prices with higher than normal inventory and slower than normal sales. At the end of June, using year-over-year (YoY) numbers, the Average Price per Square Foot and Closed Sale Price was down to February 2017 levels, Average Percentag...
Buyers in detached home markets may not see further significant corrections. “We expect to see some stabilization by the end of this year, we are going to see [detached home] prices stabilize.” Bryan Yu, Chief Economist, Central 1 Credit Union. (http://bit.ly/detached-housing) BC government policies designed to bring down house prices have been a bo...
Most new homeowners have something about their property that they want to change. And as family needs and design trends shift over time, many will eventually choose to remodel. Some homeowners make updates to their property before listing it to maximize their potential sales revenue.