{"id":11618,"date":"2019-02-09T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:07:13","slug":"vancouver-home-sales-fall-nearly-40-in-slowest-january-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/vancouver-home-sales-fall-nearly-40-in-slowest-january-in-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Home Sales Fall Nearly 40% in Slowest January in 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vancouver\u2019s once red-hot housing market continued to cool last month as the number of home sales fell to the lowest level seen in January in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says 1,103 homes were sold in Metro Vancouver last month, down 39.3% from the same month a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Month-over-month, January home sales were up 2.9% versus December 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The board says last month\u2019s home sales were 36.3% below the 10-year sales average for January, and the lowest January sales figure recorded since 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The composite benchmark price for a property, which includes detached properties, townhomes and condominiums, dropped 4.5% from a year ago to $1,019,600.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sales of detached homes fell 30.4% year over year, while the benchmark price pulled back 9.1% from January 2018 to $1,453,400.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The benchmark price of an attached home last month dipped 0.3% year-over-year to $800,600, while the benchmark price of a condominium fell 1.7% to $658,600.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The board says home prices across all property types have fallen over the region in the past seven months, pressured by the federal government\u2019s mortgage stress test that tightened homebuying rules last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis measure, coupled with an increase in mortgage rates, took away as much as 25% of purchasing power from many home buyers trying to enter the market,\u201d said the board\u2019s president, Phil Moore, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/real-estate\/vancouver-home-sales-fall-nearly-40-per-cent-in-january-as-prices-pull-back\">Vancouver Home Sales Fall Nearly 40% in Slowest January in 10 Years<\/a> by The Canadian Press | Financial Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver\u2019s once red-hot housing market continued to cool last month as the number of home sales fell to the lowest level seen in January in 10 years. 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