the rennie outlook 2024
Feb 10, 2023
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The rennie outlook, now in its fourth annual iteration, is a compendium of predictions of key macroeconomic, demographic, and housing-related measures for the coming year, including pre-sale and resale counts, home price and rent forecasts, interest rate and inflation expectations, and jobs and wages projections.
We hope you find the predictions, and the explanations behind them, to be useful in whatever context you're applying them.
Our rennie intelligence team comprises our senior economist, market analysts, and business intelligence analysts. Together, they empower individuals, organizations, and institutions with data-driven market insight and analysis. Experts in real estate dynamics, urban land economics, the macroeconomy, shifting demographics, and data science, their industry-leading data acquisition, analytical systems, and strategic research supports a comprehensive advisory service and forms the basis of frequent reports and public presentations, covering the Vancouver, Kelowna, Victoria, and Seattle marketplaces. Their thoughtful and objective approach embodies the core values of rennie.
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