Matt Brevner - Real Estate, Vancouver, BC (2026)

His new book, "Own Something and Be Happy," helps everyday people build wealth through BC real estate.

08/26/2026

Realtors typically only track “solds” or sales volume.

I’ve started tracking something different:
the actual dollars I’ve saved or earned for my clients.

That means negotiating below asking price, securing rebates and upgrades, and finding brand-new off-market homes for less than their original presale pricing.

I went back through every completed deal over the last year-ish, and built a living ledger.

Line by line. Contract by contract.

The total has now passed $1.1 million.

Sales volume is a vanity metric. It tells you about my ego, not whether the client came out ahead, and nothing about whether I actually fought to get them the lowest price possible.

I don’t want my career measured by how many transactions have my name on them. I want it measured by whether people were financially better off because I was their agent - whether I’m actually making a difference in people’s lives.

From now on, this is the number I care about growing. Every dollar added to this ledger is a dollar that was either negotiated for the client, or a piece of commission that I laid down to get the deal done, and do right by my people.

Over $1.1 million saved or earned for my clients. And counting!

08/22/2026

I capped in 122 days. I’ve been sitting with that number a couple of weeks trying to work out how I feel about it.

The honest answer to “how” isn’t the one people want. I didn’t necessarily outwork anyone this year. I got tired of being the bottleneck in my own business, so I took a step back and started building instead.

Nights and weekends, mostly. Systems that follow up when I forget to. Systems that automate my content. A workflow that carries a listing from first conversation to live without me holding every piece in my head. AI doing the repetitive 80% so I could be properly present for the 20% that needs a person in the room.

None of it is magic. It’s a hundred small decisions to stop doing things by hand.

Here’s the part I didn’t really understand when I joined, though, capping isn’t even the best bit. At Real you can take part of every commission in company stock, you’re granted shares when you cap, and there’s revenue share on the agents you bring in. The business doesn’t just pay me. I own a piece of it.

And Real is in the middle of acquiring RE/MAX. Shareholders on both sides approved it last week - still pending regulatory and court sign-off. If it closes, that’s roughly 180,000 agents worldwide.

I own equity in that!

Cap resets April 1, 2027. Everything between now and then is mine, and honestly the part I’m most pleased about is having room to keep building.

I end up talking about this most days with the people I work alongside. It’s become the best part of the job.

DMs are open if you’re curious. No agenda.

Matt Brevner, Personal Real Estate Corporation
Origin Group / Real Broker B.C. Ltd.
604-229-2926

06/16/2026

Congratulations to my clients who escaped the rent trap!

For about $1000 more than they were paying in rent for a 2+den, this mother and son were able to purchase an off market 2bed+2bath AND a sub penthouse studio apartment in the SAME BUILDING, just a few blocks up the road from their current rental.

Thank you for trusting me to advise you in such an important season of life. This one feels good.

If you’re interested in off market, foreclosure, and distressed properties, comment “WHATSAPP” and I’ll send you a link to my private investors group.

604.229.2926
[email protected]

06/08/2026

It’s never too late to start again.

UBC gives you two years to finish, but I dropped everything and I gave it four months. 3 months in, my loving and supportive wife became pregnant with our first child. I felt the Lord brought me into this industry to give me a vision for family and stewardship, and he carried me through every quiz, every late night, every showing, and shielded me from every doubt or naysaying voice in my ear.

I’ve been an artist for most of my life. Sitting back down in a class environment as an adult, with people studying for their first job, was intimidating in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Ego is the enemy of growth, and God has humbled me, especially in the last 7 years of my life.

Wrote a book during that stretch too. “Own Something and Be Happy.” Hundreds of you downloaded it, and hundreds of thousands of people saw the ad I created with my brother in Christ . The artist in me will never die.

I know why I’m here.
Nobody in my family handed me a path to owning real estate, and I’ve watched too many people in this city give up trying. A wise man once said, “my people perish for lack of vision”, and that’s the whole battle. That isn’t a Vancouver problem. It’s a generational one.

The “worst” Vancouver market in over twenty years.
First year serving as a Realtor.

When I enrolled to UBC, my goal was 5 deals in my first year, and I was told to be happy with two - I would have been.

Full disclosure: I had eighteen contracts. Eight rescinded. That’s what this market looks like - buyers’ nerves catching up to their courage. The other 12 were able to push through and secure generational discounts.

It’s not easy to do something you’ve never done before, even if it’s good for you. Kudos to them.

I took the winter off after that to spend time my wife and our newborn son.

Now I’m back and building, plotting the content refresh.

Thank you, Jesus.

Massive thanks to .realtor, my teammate, who believed in me and got me in to this. We started a team, , and this is just the beginning, I’m sure.

05/02/2026

This is the best value in New Westminster right now.

THE DATA
Condo • $988K
3 bed • 3 bath • 2,092 sqft
$472/ft
Approx. 31% below comparable New Westminster inventory by price/ft.

WHY IT WORKS
At 2,092 sqft and $472/ft, the value here is simple: more usable home for the money in New Westminster. Home ownership can feel far away until the right option comes into focus. This is the kind of listing that can help a buyer see a practical path forward.

DISCLOSURE
Disclaimer: ***BUYER REPRESENTATION ONLY***
Listing brokerage: Sutton Group Seafair Realty
Mortgage/payment figures are estimates only and are not a financing commitment.
Contact your mortgage broker for specific rates, payments, and pricing details.
If you already have an agent, I cannot help you.
This communication is not intended to solicit or induce a breach of any existing agency relationships.

Matt Brevner
Personal Real Estate Corporation
The Origin Group
REAL Broker

03/31/2026

VANCOUVER — Sales are 28.7% below the 10-year seasonal average. Inventory is 37% above normal with over 13,500 homes actively listed. Translation: more choices, less competition, and sellers who are finally motivated.

This is the buyer’s market first-timers have been waiting for.

No more FOMO bidding wars. No more overpaying. You can actually negotiate, get inspections done properly, and walk into a place that feels like yours, for not much more than you’re currently paying for rent.

Plus the incentives stack in your favour right now:
- BC First-Time Home Buyers’ Property Transfer Tax exemption → up to $8,000 saved
- New federal GST rebate on brand-new homes → up to $50,000 back for qualifying first-timers
- FHSA + RRSP Home Buyers’ Plan still letting you pull tax-advantaged money for your down payment

The old market is dead. The new one is wide open.

If you’re a first-time buyer in Vancouver (or thinking about it in 2026), this is the first buyers market in 30 years.

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Vancouver, BC

Telephone

+16042292926

Website

http://www.ownsomething.ca/

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