Farhan Khondker

Farhan Khondker My job is to protect you from buying the wrong property
Greater Vancouver Area 🇨🇦 eXp Realty 📲 604-657-7697
👇How I PROTECT buyers from costly mistakes

08/18/2026

Zero new concrete condo towers launched in Metro Vancouver this year. Last year at the same time: 152.

Developers aren’t launching because they can’t hit the presale numbers lenders require. That’s not a supply problem for today — it’s a supply problem for 2028 and 2029, when almost nothing new will be ready.

👉 Comment “DEALS” — I’ll send you the listings where sellers are already flexible, before this gap catches up to pricing.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty. Not financial advice.

08/15/2026

Vancouver rent just rose for the second month in a row, up to $2,410 for a one-bedroom in July. But just next door, Burnaby posted the biggest rent drop in the entire country — down 8% year-over-year, thanks to a record wave of new rental supply.

Same region, opposite momentum. If you’re evaluating a rental property, which city you’re in matters more than the regional headline.

👉 Comment “REDFLAG” — I’ll send you the 10 red flags to check before you buy an investment property, so you’re pricing in the right city’s trend, not the regional average.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial advice.

08/13/2026

BC’s Housing Minister just confirmed active talks with Ottawa to cut development charges by up to 50% in high-growth areas — part of a $3.2 billion partnership meant to make building more viable again.

Lower development costs eventually flow through to what actually gets built, and at what price. Worth watching which areas get named “priority” once the details land.

👉 Comment “TRAPS” — I’ll send you the 7 mistakes that cost first-time buyers the most money in BC, including missing early signals like this one on where new supply is headed.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial advice.

08/11/2026

A site on Lougheed Highway has sat vacant since a deadly roof collapse in 2022 — the businesses there never reopened. Now there’s a proposal to build a “sovereign” AI data centre on it, tied to the federal push for domestic AI infrastructure.

A property’s history doesn’t disappear just because a new proposal shows up. That’s exactly the kind of due diligence worth doing before you buy near — or into — a site with a real backstory.

👉 Comment “REDFLAG” — I’ll send you the 10 red flags to check on a property’s history before you buy.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial or legal advice.

08/10/2026

A condo owner in the Lower Mainland was hit with $89,000 in strata fines after her unit was used for short-term rental — and she’s since managed to get most of it reversed.

$89,000 in fines is a real number a strata council can levy. Whether you win it back later or not, that’s exactly the kind of bylaw risk worth knowing before you buy, not after.

👉 Comment “REDFLAG” — I’ll send you the 10 red flags to check on a strata’s rental bylaws before you buy.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not legal advice.

08/09/2026

Most homeowners never check whether their property tax assessment is actually correct. Tax experts say if there’s a factual error, or your home is assessed higher than comparable properties, you can appeal — and refunds can run 20% or more if the error is significant.

BC reassesses every property annually, so this is worth checking regularly, not just once.

👉 Comment “TRAPS” — I’ll send you the 7 mistakes that cost first-time buyers the most money in BC, including overlooking savings like this one after you’ve already bought.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial or tax advice.

08/08/2026

A BC Supreme Court justice called it “the stuff of nightmares” — fraudsters nearly sold a resort condo for $580,000 that they didn’t even own, before the real owners caught it in time.

Title fraud is rare, but it’s real, and it’s exactly why proper title insurance and due diligence exist. Most buyers never think to ask about it until it’s too late.

👉 Comment “REDFLAG” — I’ll send you the 10 red flags to check before you buy, so a situation like this never becomes yours.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial or legal advice.

08/06/2026

A West End development site was sold for $60 million, then flipped again just one month later for $68 million — years before the tower planned for it collapsed into receivership.

Speculative rezoning bets like this don’t always work out, even for the people flipping the land itself. That’s worth remembering before you assume a “coming rezoning” guarantees anything.

👉 Comment “REDFLAG” — I’ll send you the 10 red flags to check before you buy into a property banking on a future rezoning.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty. Not financial or legal advice.

08/04/2026

Surrey just cut its development cost charges — building a small-scale home there now costs about $36,000 less in fees than the same project in Langley.

Lower building costs eventually show up in what gets built, and at what price. Worth watching which side of that boundary you’re buying on.

👉 Comment “TRAPS” — I’ll send you the 7 mistakes that cost first-time buyers the most money in BC, including not knowing how city-to-city costs affect what gets built near you.

Farhan Khondker | REALTOR® · eXp Realty.
Not financial or legal advice.

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