By Sammy Hudes
The area’s 1,765 house gross sales final month have been nonetheless 14.9% under the 10-year seasonal common for December, Better Vancouver Realtors stated Friday.
The true property board stated there have been 1,676 newly listed properties, up 26.3% from December 2023.
The composite benchmark worth was $1,171,500, up 0.5% from a 12 months earlier and 0.1% under November’s stage.
“Though gross sales exercise had a slower begin to the 12 months, worth traits started 2024 on the rise and closed out the 12 months on a flatter trajectory,” Andrew Lis, the board’s director of economics and information analytics, stated in a press launch.
“With the information displaying renewed power to complete the 12 months, nonetheless, it seems to be as if the 2025 market is positioned to be significantly extra lively than we’ve seen in recent times.”
Earlier this week, B.C.’s newest property assessments confirmed values have been usually flat in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
BC Evaluation stated costs solely fluctuated inside a spread of plus or minus three per cent in most communities, together with main city areas equivalent to Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna.
Common residential costs in Vancouver have been down 0.8%. Common residential valuations dropped by two per cent in Victoria, and a pair of.9% in Kelowna.
The assessments mirrored market circumstances on July 1, 2024.
General, Vancouver-area house gross sales all through 2024 rose 1.2% from the earlier 12 months, however the 26,561 complete transactions have been nonetheless 20.9% under the 10-year annual gross sales common, in line with the actual property board.
There have been 60,388 properties listed in Metro Vancouver in 2024, representing an 18.7% improve in contrast with 2023 and 5.7% above the area’s 10-year annual common.
The board stated there are presently 10,948 properties listed on the market within the area, a 24.4% improve in contrast with December 2024 and round one-quarter above the 10-year seasonal common.
“Wanting again on 2024, it might finest be described as a pivot 12 months for the market after experiencing such dramatic will increase in mortgage charges within the previous years,” stated Lis.
“With borrowing prices now firmly on the decline, patrons have began to point out up in numbers after considerably of a hiatus — and this renewed power is now clearly seen within the newer month-to-month information.”
— With information from Chuck Chiang in Vancouver
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 3, 2025.
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