{"id":8764,"date":"2018-04-09T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2018-04-08T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:07:23","slug":"vancouver-home-sales-continue-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/vancouver-home-sales-continue-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Home Sales Continue to Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Metro Vancouver home sales continued to drop on a year-over-year basis in March, and one of Canada\u2019s biggest banks says BC\u2019s new property taxes are likely to blame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, home sales plummeted roughly 30% compared to a year ago, according to the latest data from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But RBC Senior Economist Robert Hogue says the region\u2019s sales decline is not surprising considering resales had already dropped notably in January and February \u2014 most likely as a result of a national mortgage stress test that came into effect on January 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hogue says sales activity dropped to even lower levels in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYet the new stress test may not have been the main reason for the further weakening in home resales in the Vancouver area,\u201d he writes in a note, published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe situation got more challenging there after the BC provincial budget at the end of February announced a new round of market-cooling measures,\u201d Hogue adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BC government\u2019s housing plan includes an increase to the existing foreign-buyer tax from 15% to 20%, along with a new speculation tax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although stricter mortgage regulations played a role in the region\u2019s drop in sales throughout Q1 2018, Hogue attributes the further slowdown in March to the new housing policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s highly probable that some buyers and sellers moved to the sidelines in March in reaction to the uncertainty caused by these measures \u2014 just as many did in the months following the introduction of the original foreign-buyer tax in August 2016,\u201d writes Hogue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meantime, new listings for all properties fell nearly 7% in March to 4,450 homes compared to 4,762 homes in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite dampened sales and listings last month, Hogue notes that demand-supply conditions have recently become balanced in Metro Vancouver, resulting in more upward pressure on prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March, the benchmark price of a home was $1,084,000 \u2014 a 16% increase from a year ago and up 1% compared to February 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.buzzbuzzhome.com\/2018\/04\/vancouver-home-sales-drop-mortgage-rules-cause.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver Home Sales Continue to Drop But the New Mortgage Rules Aren&#8217;t the Main Cause<\/a> by Kerrisa Wilson | Buzz Buzz Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Vancouver home sales continued to drop on a year-over-year basis in March, and one of Canada\u2019s biggest banks says BC\u2019s new property taxes are likely to blame. 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