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We are proud to present our Westside market reports for the period running from February 22 – March 1 courtesy susankeevil.com…

Westside Vancouver Attached Report February 22 – March 1 :

The Westside neighbourhoods saw a post-Olympic recovery in supply numbers this past week with 77 new attached listings in the Westside markets (or 41% of the overall 189 new active listings over Vancouver West). Kitsilano once again posted the strongest attached supply figures with 19 new attached listings. We expect a steady increase in new listing activity after the closing of the Olympics as buyers bring their homes on the market, and short-term Olympic rental also also affect supply.

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Westside Vancouver Detached Market Report February 22 – March 1

The Westside Detached market returned to pre-Olympic levels this past week after posting strong gains going into the 2010 Games. We saw 58 new detached listings on the Westside (down from approximately 80 per week in the periods prior), with Cambie and Dunbar remaining the strongest markets with 10 and 9 new listings respectively. The detached market on the Westside had been quite hot on the buyer side through the end of January and as such we saw quite a supply increase through the first two weeks of February.

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Vancouver Realty Online presents our Downtown Vancouver Market Update for the period running from February 22 – March 1 courtesy susankeevil.com…

Downtown Attached Market Update February 22 – March 1 :

As the hugely successful Vancouver 2010 Olympic games come to a close we see a rebound in new listing supply with 189 new listings across Vancouver West this past week with 112 sales or 59% of overall volume falling in the downtown markets. The downtown core continued to account for roughly 50% of all solds downtown with 59 new attached listing; False Creek North grabbed the ’silver’ with 21 new attached listings.

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Federal rules tightened slightly yesterday when a new set of mortgage restricting criteria were announced in Ottawa. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was quick to assure the media, however; that the changes were not in response to a ‘housing bubble’, but a proactive step to assure the market stays responsible…

Vancouver Sun, February 16, 2010

Federal rules introduced Tuesday to tighten mortgage requirements will squeeze the purchasing power of the average Metro Vancouver buyer by $40,000 to $50,000, market observers say.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, amid warnings that too many Canadians are overextending themselves to take cheap, variable-rate mortgages, said buyers who want insured high-ratio mortgages will need to meet tougher requirements.

-Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun

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According to the B.C. Real Estate Association, much of the forward momentum for 2010/11 has been used up by the interest rate driven market improvements we saw in 2009:

B.C. real estate 2009 bounce-back to taper off this year, 2011

Muir characterized his forecast as 2009 ending with a “gold-medal finish, [which] will give way to a silver-medal performance in 2010.”

“Affordability is the biggest factor over the longer term,” Muir added in an interview, “because home prices in markets such as Victoria and Vancouver are trending on record levels, and mortgage rates are likely to edge higher at the end of this year and through 2011.”

“That’s going to increase the carrying cost of housing, and by extension, overall housing demand.”

Home carrying costs, the monthly mortgage payment, taxes and other fees saw a dramatic trim during the downturn that lasted through the last half of 2008 and first part of 2009, but Muir noted that that advantage is rapidly disappearing.

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Vancouver Realty Online presents our Downtown Vancouver Market Update for the period running from January 18 – January 25 courtesy susankeevil.com…

Downtown Attached Market Update:

New listing supply continued to trend upwards for the third consecutive week as we saw 273 new attached listings across Vancouver West (an increase over the 238 new listings in the previous period). The downtown markets accounted for only approximately 46% of this increase, however; with the Westside markets demonstrating a slightly higher degree of new listing growth; downtown we saw 153 new attached listings (compared to 137 in the previous week).

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