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08/09/2026

Canada just did something it has not done since Confederation in 1867. Its population shrank for three consecutive quarters in a row. Statistics Canada confirmed it directly. 📉

Q3 2025 down seventy six thousand. Q4 2025 down one hundred and three thousand. Q1 2026 down fifty five thousand. Two hundred and thirty four thousand people gone in nine months. The steepest demographic contraction in modern Canadian history.

The primary driver is the collapse in non permanent residents. Study and work permit holders. The backbone of rental demand in Greater Vancouver for the last decade. BC posted one of the steepest provincial declines with the impact concentrated specifically on Greater Vancouver.

Vancouver’s entire price appreciation story rested on one assumption for two decades. People keep coming. That assumption just broke three quarters in a row for the first time since this country was founded.

Twenty four thousand new rental units arriving over two years into a city now losing people not gaining them.

⚠️ Comment GUIDE right now. I will personally show you exactly what three consecutive quarters of population decline means for your specific Vancouver property and what the smartest owners and investors are doing about it before this gets worse. ✅

Sources: Statistics Canada June 17 2026. CBC News June 17 2026. The Hub June 20 2026.

For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

08/08/2026

Same street in East Vancouver. One home sold twenty thousand above asking. The other sitting forty seven days with two price reductions. This is what Vancouver actually looks like right now. 📊

THREE RISING. East Vancouver detached where Bill 44 creates genuine multiplex land value upside and buyers are moving in before the premium gets priced in. Burnaby and Coquitlam SkyTrain townhomes where constrained supply is trending toward sellers. North Shore townhomes where geography permanently limits supply.

THREE STILL FALLING HARD. Coal Harbour luxury condos above two million now averaging sixty two days on market up from forty one days last year. Suburban investor condos drowning in twenty four thousand new rental units arriving. West Side detached above three million where sellers are accepting prices not seen since the mid twenty teens.

Same city. Same headlines. Completely different realities street by street.

⚠️ Comment GUIDE right now. Whether you own here already or are relocating to Vancouver I will personally show you exactly which neighbourhoods are rising and which are falling and what your smartest move is before this window closes. The buyers moving into the right pockets right now are the ones who will look back in three years and know exactly why they moved when they did. ✅

Sources: Vancouver Home Search August 2026. Mortgage Sandbox August 2026. Cushman and Wakefield Q1 2026.

For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

08/04/2026

Metro Vancouver has seventeen thousand active listings right now, thirty percent above the ten year seasonal average. At the same time, British Columbia lost more than forty one thousand residents last year, the first population decline in one hundred and fifty one years.

Composite prices are down six percent year over year and have not caught up to the shift in supply. But demand is already turning. Sales just posted their strongest year over year increase in recent memory, which means this combination of high inventory and low competition will not last.

⚠️ Comment GUIDE right now. I will personally walk you through how to tell which sellers on your shortlist are already cracking versus which ones are still anchored to a price that will not move. Wasting an offer on the wrong seller costs you weeks in a market where every week has a price attached to it.

For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

Source: Greater Vancouver Realtors, Statistics Canada, July 2026.

08/03/2026

Roman Kahlone | EXP Realty | 778-707-1187

I spent last weekend going through every downtown Vancouver condo sold in the last thirty days. Here is what the verified MLS data actually shows. 📉

Two thousand three hundred and fifteen condos listed. One hundred and seventy one sold in thirty days. Absorption rate of seven point four percent. Fewer than eight out of every one hundred are actually selling.

The ones selling are not selling at asking. Average sale to list ratio at ninety seven point four percent. In West End and older Yaletown buildings dropping to ninety five percent. On a seven hundred and eighty thousand dollar listing that is fifteen to forty thousand dollars below asking. Every single transaction.

Days on market jumped from twenty four days last year to thirty eight days right now. Six point four months of inventory. Sales to active listings at twelve point eight percent. Right at the knife edge where prices historically start falling further.

Most sellers in this data priced off what their neighbour sold for eighteen months ago. The gap between what sellers think their unit is worth and what buyers are actually paying is fifteen to forty thousand dollars and widening.

👉 Comment GUIDE right now. Here is exactly what you get. The specific downtown Vancouver buildings where the gap between asking and selling is widest right now. The exact negotiation strategy buyers are using to capture that fifteen to forty thousand dollar discount. And what condo owners need to know about their unit’s real market position before they make any decision. This data took Roman a weekend to pull. Comment GUIDE and get it in minutes. 📊🏔️

Sources: BC Condos and Homes MLS Data July 26 2026. Greater Vancouver Realtors June 2026. Vancouver Home Search July 2026.

⚠️ For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

08/01/2026

Most Vancouver homeowners think they are down maybe ten percent from 2022. The inflation adjusted number is almost three times worse than that. 📉

Bank for International Settlements data confirmed it. Nominal prices down twenty point one percent from the Q1 2022 peak. But adjusted for real purchasing power the loss is twenty nine point three percent. A full decade of gains gone in four years. Prices back to 2016 levels in real terms.

Here is what makes this unlike every previous Canadian crash. The 1981 crash was solved by cutting rates. The 1989 crash was solved by cutting rates. The 2008 crash was solved by cutting rates. Rates are already near historic lows. So the government is trying fifty five year mortgages and developer bailouts instead. BMO Capital Markets called it directly. Not a fix. A risk transfer to taxpayers.

Most homeowners making decisions right now are doing it with the wrong number in their head. And every decision made on the wrong number costs more than it needs to.

👉 Comment GUIDE right now. Here is exactly what you get. A neighbourhood specific breakdown showing your property’s real inflation adjusted value today. The three moves Vancouver homeowners in your situation are making right now to protect what is left. And the one mistake most 2022 buyers make in the next ninety days that turns a painful situation into a catastrophic one. Roman pulls this for your specific situation personally. Comment GUIDE now before your next decision costs you more than it needs to. 📊🏔️

Sources: Bank for International Settlements Q1 2026. Better Dwelling July 2026. BMO Capital Markets 2026.

⚠️ For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

08/01/2026

Roman Kahlone | EXP Realty | 778-707-1187

Canada cancelled affordable housing for the poor to bail out luxury condos nobody wants. And called it a housing plan. Here is the verified sequence. 📉

February 2026. BC suspended the Community Housing Fund and Indigenous Housing Fund. One point four billion dollars reallocated away from housing. Four thousand permanently affordable homes cancelled. Shovel ready projects stalled. Families still waiting.

June 18 2026. Same government announced three point two billion dollars to buy unsold luxury condos from developers who cannot sell them.

June 23 2026. BC mayors publicly said the bailout details are as empty as the province’s unsold condos.

Then Carney acknowledged they did not do a particularly good job rolling it out.

Today CMHC confirmed the result. Canada needs four hundred and thirty thousand homes per year to restore affordability. June 2026 starts at two hundred and thirty eight thousand nine hundred and seventy one. Less than half. Vancouver starts fell thirty five percent in a single month. Second consecutive monthly decline.

Cancel affordable housing. Bail out luxury developers. Admit the fumble. Construction collapses anyway.

👉 Comment GUIDE below. Inside the Greater Vancouver Master Guide is the exact breakdown of what this government failure and construction collapse means for your Metro Vancouver property before the market answers the question the government would not. Comment GUIDE now. 📊🏔️

Sources: CMHC Housing Starts June 2026 July 16 2026. CBC News June 23 2026. UBC Balanced Supply of Housing June 30 2026.

⚠️ For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

07/31/2026

Roman Kahlone | EXP Realty | 778-707-1187

The central bank for central banks just confirmed it. Canadian real estate inflation adjusted prices are down 29.3% since Q1 2022. A decade of gains gone in four years. Prices back to 2016 levels. 📉

Every previous Canadian correction for comparison.
1989 to 1998. Down 21.1% over nine and a half years.
1981 to 1984. Down 21.5% over three and a half years.
2008 to 2009. Down 9.3% in one year.

This correction has done more damage than all of them. In under half the time.

And unlike every previous crash this one cannot be solved by cutting rates. Rates are already near historic lows. So the government is trying developer bailouts and fifty five year mortgages longer than the usable life of some of the buildings being financed. BMO called it directly. Not a fix. A risk transfer.

👉 Comment GUIDE below. Inside the Greater Vancouver Master Guide is the exact neighbourhood by neighbourhood breakdown of what the largest correction in Canadian history means for your specific Metro Vancouver property right now and what your smartest move is before this shifts again. Most people will not understand what 29.3% inflation adjusted means for their equity until it is too late to act on it. Comment GUIDE now. 📊🏔️

Sources: Better Dwelling BIS Data July 2026. BMO Capital Markets 2026. Bank for International Settlements Q1 2026.

⚠️ For informational and educational purposes only. Not legal or financial advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making real estate decisions.

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