the rennie landscape - Q3 2019

After 18 months of sliding sales, increasing inventory, and placid prices, the trajectory of Metro Vancouver's housing market is poised to change. A recent re-emergence of previously sidelined demand has coincided with some of the fastest employment growth and wage growth in Canada, with the unemployment rate being driven to a near-historical low. 

These factors, combined with continued population growth in Metro Vancouver and an interest rate environment that has gone from market headwind to definitive tailwind over the past 10 months, bode well for the region's pre-sale and resale markets. 

Each quarter, rennie intelligence produces the rennie landscape, that tracks a variety of demographic and economic indicators that directly and indirectly influence our housing market here in Metro Vancouver. Our goal is to provide our community with a basis for evaluating the trajectory of the factors that collectively define the context for the real estate market.

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April marked the third straight month of increasing home sales counts in the Vancouver Region, with buyers keeping up the pressure on supply. Indeed, continued demand combined with new listings lethargy means a material inventory expansion will likely be elusive in the months ahead.

Randy Rinaldo
Personal Real Estate Corporation
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Dulled demand and scarce supply once again characterized Vancouver’s housing market dynamics in December, with the continued lack of clarity about the path of inflation and interest rates reducing sales counts to their lowest level since 2008 and thrusting inventory below 10,000 for the first time…

Randy Rinaldo
Personal Real Estate Corporation
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In March, total MLS sales rose by 50% from February, which was a much larger jump than the typical 28% increase. Last month’s total of 4,022 sales, however, was 25% below the past 10-year March average. Inventory, on the other hand, only increased by 3% from the previous month and ended March 25% b…

Randy Rinaldo
Personal Real Estate Corporation