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Ken Wong - Realtor - Vancouver EXP Realty of Canada, Inc. Helping Vancouver families buy & sell their perfect homes with ease and confidence.

10/15/2026

Selling in Vancouver? The headline is not about your home.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📊 SEPTEMBER REPORT
Sales down.
Inventory still elevated.
Benchmark for a typical Metro Vancouver home: about $1.14 million.

📉 WHAT INVENTORY MEANS
Just homes for sale.
More choice for buyers - not a verdict on your price.

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
A metro-wide number hides your street and your home type.
A long-term holder is still fine.

🏠 IF YOU OWN...
A Commercial-Broadway condo and a North Van detached are two different markets under one headline.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING...
Elevated inventory is negotiating room.

📚 SOURCES
Greater Vancouver Realtors report, MLS sales history, BC Stats.

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/14/2026

Living in Metrotown Burnaby: what it's really like beyond the mall.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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Buying a home in Burnaby and wondering if Metrotown is just Metropolis mall with towers? It isn't.

Everyone knows Metrotown for the mall. Locals know it for everything else.

📊 Metrotown Station — Expo Line, downtown Vancouver one train ride away, no car needed.

📉 One stop over: Patterson Station at the edge of Central Park — big trees, walking trails, pitch and putt.

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
Same line, one stop apart, completely different feel — most buyers never check which station they're actually near.
Long-term, that's exactly what holds value.

🏠 IF YOU OWN: your SkyTrain + Central Park location is what buyers search for.
🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING: the one thing that decides if you'd love it comes last.

📚 SOURCES: MLS sales history, BC Stats, CMHC.

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/14/2026

I'm going to break down the three numbers that show Vancouver's market is stuck.

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10/14/2026

Buying a home in Vancouver? The 23-year slowdown doesn't erase the hidden cost of owning.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📊 SAME BUDGET, TWO CONDOS
East Vancouver, along the Expo Line.
Both listed at $800,000.
One new tower, one older building one stop over.

⚠️ THE NUMBER MOST PEOPLE SKIP
BC's property transfer tax is paid at closing.
On $800,000, that's $14,000.
First-time buyers who qualify pay none of it on a condo up to $835,000.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING
The price is the easiest number in the deal.
The one most people skip is saved for last.

📚 SOURCES
BC property transfer tax tables, MLS sales history, CMHC housing data.

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/14/2026

Line 1: The most mocked house in Vancouver is also the most useful — here's why.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📊 THE RULE THAT BUILT IT
• 1960s: basement didn't count toward max size
• Builders put basement at ground level, full height
• Stacked living space on top → two homes on one 33-ft lot

🏠 TWO JOBS, ONE MORTGAGE
• Room for your family
• A hand with the mortgage
• That was the plan — not an accident

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
• Most people don't realize the same rules that made it useful can limit future changes.
• But long-term, the dual-purpose layout stays relevant.

🏠 IF YOU OWN A VANCOUVER SPECIAL
• Know the history before you renovate.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING
• Look past the mockery — the utility is real.

📚 SOURCES
• City of Vancouver zoning archives
• MLS sales history
• BC Stats housing data

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/14/2026

A view doesn't make a neighbourhood livable — this one test does.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📊 THE ONLY TEST THAT MATTERS
Can you live your day without the car?
Your neighbourhood is decided the day you check the walk, not the day you fall for the view.

📉 FOUR LIVABILITY TESTS
1. Walkable village — groceries, coffee, food on foot
2. Transit that actually goes somewhere
3. Green space close by — park, beach, seawall
4. Schools within reach

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
The trade-off nobody mentions: walkable often means smaller lots and older homes.
Long-term holders are still fine — walk demand stays resilient.

🏠 IF YOU OWN...
You hold the scarcity — walkable beats viewable.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING...
Run the four tests before you fall for photos.

📚 SOURCES
MLS sales history, BC Stats, CMHC

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/13/2026

Five catches hiding in plain sight across Greater Vancouver — and number three stopped me cold. $45,000 a year, hiding in a tax form.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📊 THE FIRST CATCH: RICHMOND
Parts of Richmond sit on a floodplain.
There's a line the listing will never tell you about.

📉 WHAT YOU'RE REALLY BUYING
Not just the home — the land, the taxes around it, the street it sits on.

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
The risk nobody mentions: costs that only show up after it's yours.
Why a long-term holder is still fine: I went through all five, and none of this is random.

🏠 IF YOU OWN...
You already know your area's catch.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING...
This is why the photos aren't enough.

📚 SOURCES
MLS sales history, BC Stats, CMHC.

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/12/2026

Vancouver home prices just erased five years of g*ins — here's the one number that saw it coming.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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📉 THE PRICE DROP
Typical Vancouver home: ~$1.08M
Gave back about $177,000
You were watching the price. That wasn't the signal.

📊 THE NUMBER THAT MATTERS
The price tag didn't move this market.
How many homes actually sell did.
One September number stopped me cold.

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
The risk nobody mentions: waiting for the price to "make sense" ag*in can cost you more than moving early.
A long-term holder is still fine — real estate rewards time in the market, not timing it.

🏠 IF YOU OWN...
Your equity story changed, not your home's usefulness.
Detach your net worth from the monthly headline.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING...
You've waited, saved, done everything right.
The market still moved without you. Let's make sure that doesn't happen ag*in.

📚 SOURCES
MLS sales history, BC Stats, CMHC

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/12/2026

Vancouver real estate just gave back more than five years of g*ins — about $177,000 off the typical home.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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Everyone was watching the price.

The number that actually tells you where this is heading?

How many homes sell.

📊 THE PRICE
• Typical home: about $1.08 million
• Lowest in more than five years
• Back to early 2021 prices
• Roughly $177,000 in g*ins given back

📉 WHY IT'S NOT RANDOM
• I went through the September numbers
• The move wasn't a fluke
• Price is only half the story — sales volume is the other half

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
• Value can keep drifting before it turns — nobody rings a bell at the bottom
• If you're holding long term, five years of give-back is noise, not damage

🏠 IF YOU OWN
• Your equity story changed — your long-term plan doesn't have to

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING
• Early 2021 pricing is back on the table
• Watch sales volume, not just the price tag

📚 SOURCES
• MLS sales history
• BC Stats
• CMHC

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

10/12/2026

Vancouver real estate: why two houses on the same street sell $100,000 apart.

📞 Ken Wong, REALTOR® · 604-338-3045
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Same block. Sometimes nearly identical from the sidewalk. Yet sale prices on the same Vancouver street can sit $100,000 apart right now — and it's almost never the reno.

📊 THE GAP
• Same street, same block, up to $100,000 difference.
• Two houses that look identical from the sidewalk.
• Most buyers guess the wrong reason.

📉 REASON #1: WHICH SIDE OF THE NOISE YOU'RE ON
• Both front the same quiet small street.
• Walk around the back: one backs onto a quiet lane.
• The other backs onto the busy road — bus route, traffic all day.

⚠️ THE HONEST HEDGE
• No renovation fixes a busy road. The risk is baked into the lot, not the house.
• A long-term holder is still fine — you buy the location right and you hold through the noise.

🏠 IF YOU OWN
• Your side of the street is quietly doing a lot of the pricing work.

🏠 IF YOU'RE BUYING
• Walk the back lane before you fall for the front.

📚 SOURCES
• MLS sales history, BC Assessment, CMHC.

Not financial, tax, mortgage, legal, or real estate advice. DM me.

Ken Wong · REALTOR® · eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. · Licensed with the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).

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