{"id":4475,"date":"2017-01-05T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:47:31","slug":"2016-was-metro-vancouvers-3rd-highest-home-selling-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/2016-was-metro-vancouvers-3rd-highest-home-selling-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Was Metro Vancouver\u2019s 3rd Highest Home-Selling Year on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sales cooled off toward the end of the year, but in 2016 overall, the number of homes sold across Metro Vancouver was the third highest on record, after 2015 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 39,943 homes changed hands last year, which was a 5.6% drop compared with the 42,326 units sold in 2015, the highest year on record, according to Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver data released January 4. It was also 20.6% higher than the 33,116 homes sold in 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">REBGV president Dan Morrison called 2016 \u201can eventful year,\u201d and said the low supply and high demand caused a lot of attention to be focused on the area\u2019s real estate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs prices rose in the first half of the year, public debate waged about what was fuelling demand and what should be done to stop it,\u201d Morrison said. \u201cThis led to multiple government interventions into the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These interventions included the 15% foreign buyer\u2019s tax implemented last summer and new federal mortgage rules put in place in October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The composite benchmark price for all home types across Metro Vancouver was $897,600 at the end of the year, which was a decrease of 2.2% compared with the end of June but up 17.8% year-over-year. The benchmark price for detached properties increased 18.6% over the year, reaching $1,483,500. For apartments, the benchmark price climbed 17.3% to $510,300, and attached property prices increased 20.4% to $661,800.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sales falter in December<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the final month of the year, 1,714 homes were sold, which was a 39.4% drop compared with the 2,827 sales in December 2015. It was also a 22.6% decrease compared with November, when 2,214 homes were sold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 541 detached property units were sold in the month, which was a 52.4% year-over-year decline. The number of apartments sold dropped 25.3% to 915, and a total of 258 attached properties were sold \u2013 a drop of 44.6%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biv.com\/article\/2017\/1\/last-year-was-metro-vancouvers-third-highest-home-\/\" target=\"_blank\">REBGV : 2016 Was Metro Vancouver\u2019s 3rd Highest Home-Selling Year on Record<\/a> by Emma Crawford Hampel | Business in Vancouver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales cooled off toward the end of the year, but in 2016 overall, the number of homes sold across Metro Vancouver was the third highest on record, after 2015 and &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/2016-was-metro-vancouvers-3rd-highest-home-selling-year-on-record\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2016 Was Metro Vancouver\u2019s 3rd Highest Home-Selling Year on Record &#8226; 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