{"id":26432,"date":"2025-09-15T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=26432"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:28:51","slug":"lower-mainland-residential-unit-sales-up-0-5-price-in-bc-down-1-4-y-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/lower-mainland-residential-unit-sales-up-0-5-price-in-bc-down-1-4-y-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Mainland Residential Unit Sales Up 0.5%, Price in BC Down 1.4% Y\/Y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vancouver, BC \u2013 September 11, 2025. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that 5,961 residential unit sales were recorded in Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae) Systems in August 2025, up 0.5% from August 2024. The average MLS\u00ae residential price in BC in August 2025 was down 1.4% at $926,335 compared to $939,376 in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total sales dollar volume was $5.5 billion, down 0.9% from the same time the previous year. BC MLS\u00ae unit sales were 24.2% lower than the ten-year August average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe continue to see significant regional disparity in the market, with the Lower Mainland lagging behind the rest of the province,\u201d said BCREA Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson. \u201cWhile sales finished the summer on a lower note than expected, we continue to see encouraging signs of a better second half of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Year-to-date, BC residential sales dollar volume is down 8.5% to $46.3 billion, compared with the same period in 2024. Residential unit sales are down 5% year-over-year at 48,842 units, while the average MLS\u00ae residential price is also down 3.7% to $949,157.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcrea.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the complete news release, including detailed statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcrea.bc.ca\/economics\/provincial-sales-up-in-august-but-some-regions-still-sluggish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provincial Sales Up in August, But Some Regions Still Sluggish<\/a> by Brendon Ogmundson | Chief Economist | BCREA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC \u2013 September 11, 2025. The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that 5,961 residential unit sales were recorded in Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae) Systems in August 2025, &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/lower-mainland-residential-unit-sales-up-0-5-price-in-bc-down-1-4-y-y\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-updates","category-real-estate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lower Mainland Residential Unit Sales Up 0.5%, Price in BC Down 1.4% Y\/Y &#8226; Rory C Real Estate | Oakwyn Realty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/lower-mainland-residential-unit-sales-up-0-5-price-in-bc-down-1-4-y-y\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lower Mainland Residential Unit Sales Up 0.5%, Price in BC Down 1.4% Y\/Y &#8226; Rory C Real Estate | Oakwyn Realty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Vancouver, BC \u2013 September 11, 2025. 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