REBGV news release

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Here is the meat and potatoes...

The MLS® HPI benchmark price for all residential properties in Greater Vancouver currently sits at $679,000, up 5.3 per cent compared to March 2011 and an increase of 1.1 per cent compared to February 2012. The benchmark price for all residential properties in the Lower Mainland is $607,700, an increase of 4.8 per cent compared to March 2011.


Sales of detached properties on the MLS® in March 2012 reached 1,183, a decline of 34.1 per cent from the 1,795 detached sales recorded in March 2011, and an 11.5 per cent decrease from the 1,336 units sold in March 2010. The benchmark price for detached properties increased 9.2 per cent from March 2011 to $1,056,400.

Sales of apartment properties reached 1,191 in March 2012, a decline of 26.6 per cent compared to the 1,622 sales in March 2011, and a decrease of 4.9 per cent compared to the 1,252 sales in March 2010. The benchmark price of an apartment property increased 2.2 per cent from March 2011 to $375,100.

Townhome property sales in March 2012 totalled 500, a decline of 24.6 per cent compared to the 663 sales in March 2011, and an 8.9 per cent decrease from the 549 townhome properties sold in March 2010. The benchmark price of a townhome unit increased 0.9 per cent between March 2011 and 2012 to $480,900.

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Big drop in sales. SFH benchmark up a good chunk from last year, but attached and apartments flat and could be down YOY next month. Can that be possible? down YOY in Vancouver! We won't bet the bank on it (they are already doing that themselves), we will just keep our fingers crossed.

BTW- check out the link I put up in the comments sections in the previous post, about the games that Royal Bank may have played, if the allegations are true, and they have undertaken these huge 'wash sales', then the biggest loser could be the tax-man ie us. Not enough that we have to carry the burden of the CMHC....