For many first-time homebuyers, sky-high Vancouver home prices aren’t enough to stop them from entering the market, suggests a poll from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV).

In fact, 32% of all homebuyers in Greater Vancouver during the year ending in April were purchasing residential real estate for the very first time, according to REBGV.

Meantime, Vancouverites looking to purchase a dwelling similar to their current one comprised almost 19% of homebuyers over the past year.

REBGV, which consists of more than 13,500 realtors in the region, surveyed its members who represented homebuyers from April 2016 to April 2017 to determine purchaser demographics.

The poll suggests families with children represented 35.5% of homebuyers from April 2016 to the same month this year. Young childless couples followed at 16%, while single men accounted for a 13.3% share of buyers over that period.

The majority of buyers are from Greater Vancouver. Some 38% of recent homebuyers surveyed were purchasing a home in the same community they previously lived in, while 36% were from outside of the region and 14% were investors.

Buyers continued to show strong interest in viewing properties before buying. About 85% attended open houses, compared to 82% a year earlier.

And most homebuyers (60%) in Greater Vancouver, where the benchmark price of a home is $941,100, put forward a downpayment of at least 25%.

The amount of multiple offers on properties hasn’t changed significantly over the past year either, with about 85% of realtors seeing more than one offer on a property this April versus 83 percent in April 2016.

Here’s A Look At Who’s Buying Homes in Greater Vancouver by Kerrisa Wilson | Buzz Buzz Home