{"id":26916,"date":"2025-12-10T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=26916"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:26:55","slug":"winter-house-hunting-seasonal-slowdown-creates-savings-for-metro-vancouver-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/winter-house-hunting-seasonal-slowdown-creates-savings-for-metro-vancouver-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter House-Hunting : Seasonal Slowdown Creates Savings for Metro Vancouver Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">January is consistently the most affordable month to buy a home in Metro Vancouver, according to an analysis of multiple listing service data by a Canadian real estate platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">January median sale prices in the region are about 6% lower than those seen in the historically most expensive months of April to June, says Toronto-based HouseSigma Inc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, typical January prices are 10% lower than the prices seen in recent summers, resulting in potential savings of $80,000, said the brokerage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople are just kind of turned off of house-browsing at that time of year\u201d due to the holidays, vacations and winter weather, said Jeremy Bator, a HouseSigma agent in the Lower Mainland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut what I find is that you still get the same consistent number of listings and people going to market. ..\u2026 Usually the listings supersede the market, and the buyer pool is not really huge at that time, so [it\u2019s a] good opportunity to save some money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HouseSigma analyzed more than 10 years of data from January 2015 to October 2025. For each year, it ranked all 12 months from highest price to lowest price, and then averaged those ranks across the past decade. May ranked the highest and January ranked the lowest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm also looked at the median price for each month across the past decade. For each month of the year\u2014January to December\u2014it took the median of its median prices and ranked the months based on actual dollar amounts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HouseSigma found that the month of January has the lowest median price at $740,000 and May has a median price of $785,000, while the months of August and September have the highest dollar amounts at $820,000 due to elevated activity in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means a January buyer can potentially save $45,000 (6%) compared to May and $80,000 (10.8%) compared to August and September, the firm said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Homebuyers eager to brave the cold weather may need to get cracking. The firm said December is a good time to enter the market for a new home, given that it can take several weeks to find a place and sign the deal. Prospective buyers should consider setting up financing, having conversations with their mortgage broker and getting pre-qualified, said Bator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen you hit the ground running in January, you\u2019re ahead of the spring rush and you\u2019re seeing all that product coming online at the same time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Getting prepared now definitely pays dividends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biv.com\/news\/real-estate\/holiday-house-hunting-could-save-metro-vancouver-buyers-10-says-firm-11586462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HouseSigma Firm : Holiday House-Hunting Could Save Metro Vancouver Buyers 10%<\/a> by Jami Makan | BIV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is consistently the most affordable month to buy a home in Metro Vancouver, according to an analysis of multiple listing service data by a Canadian real estate platform. 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